The new building will replace the current Hilton property and is scheduled to open in 2015 with 23 meeting rooms, a restaurant and bar, a spa and fitness centre and an atrium lobby.

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Opened in 1789 as a bakery and restaurant, today the 170-room Traube Tonbach is a member of the Relais and Chateaux luxury hotel group, and has expanded to include a spa and fitness centre, a 25-person chapel, indoor and outdoor pools, a wine bar and four restaurants.

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The Helen Ley care centre in Leamington Spa was due to shut by the end of January.

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An operation centre in Leamington Spa, near Warwick, will lose 280 positions, about 150 jobs will be lost in London and and a call centre in Newport, south Wales, will be shut down, HSBC spokesman Tim Pie said.

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Founded by the Romans as a thermal spa, Bath became an important centre of the wool industry in the Middle Ages.

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But the centre piece of the Bath Spa Project will be a stone cube on the site of the 1920s Beau Street swimming baths.

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Post putt, head over to the resort's Clubhouse - 55, 000 square feet of top-notch amenities including a fitness centre, steam room, and the Spa at Pronghorn, where an 80-minute aromatherapy massage - to 9-iron out the kinks, of course - or a soothing gentleman's facial is the perfect way to unwind (those wanting to get back outside quickly may enjoy a 30-minute mini facial, instead).

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The MS Society said there was a "new ray of hope" for the centre and it was now working with Leamington Spa-based Castel Froma to agree "precise terms and discuss detailed transfer arrangements".

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For a lavish country-club-style atmosphere set in an urban forest of oaks and pines, plus athletic extras like a running track, three large outdoor pools, a 125, 000sqft fitness centre, tennis courts and a climbing wall, check out the 289-room Houstonian Hotel Club and Spa near the Galleria on the west side of town.

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