Research by TRI Hospitality Consulting said the city could support a 130-bedroom hotel at the station concourse.

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Everyone has a story to tell about the white-collar sarariman who lost his job and then his family, and who now lives in a cardboard box on the station concourse, still reading the financial pages every day.

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Police later recovered part of Mr Taylor's ear from the middle of the station's concourse.

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