A NEW Durham hotel has opened early to cater for the influx of visitors for university graduation ceremonies.
Workmen pulled out the stops to ensure that the Kingslodge, in the burnt out shell of the Rose Tree pub, opened this month. Kingslodge Developments have turned the gutted building into a 21-bed luxury hotel at the entrance to Flassvale, an urban nature reserve on the site of the Battle of Nevilles Cross.
On Thursday the first of 2,000 degrees were due to be presented by university Chancellor Sir Peter Ustinov in a ceremony at Durham Castle. Honorary Doctor of Civil Law degrees are being awarded to international management guru Prof Charles Handy and Dr Miriam Stoppard, the healthcare author and broadcaster who studied at Durham. Doctor of Science honorary degrees will be given to American scientist and Nobel Prize winner Prof Roald Hoffman and Prof Jean-Pierre Serre, the French mathematician.
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