Simon Fordham, a Partner and crisis management expert from BGN Risk, said this week that insurers were used to hard-nosed negotiation but that this did not work with pirates in Somalia, Nigeria and elsewhere.
Jon Beard and Geoff Rhodes of the Brighton office of Begbies Traynor were today appointed administrators of The Royal Norfolk Hotel 2004 Ltd, the trading company which runs the 180-year-old Bognor Regis hotel.
The trustees of the Exeter Northcott have decided to place the theatre into administration.