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Image source, Nottinghamshire PoliceImage caption, Valdo Calocane was discharged from mental health services in September 2022The paranoid schizophrenia of a man who killed three people in a spate of attacks was effectively "unmanaged and untreated" after he was discharged from mental health services, a public inquiry has heard. Valdo Calocane was under the care of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for two years, during which time he was sectioned four times and warned he would kill somebody. He was discharged nine months before he fatally stabbed three people and tried to kill three others, because healthcare workers "could not find him". Dr Tim Baker, a GP at the practice where Calocane was a patient from 2017, said it was his view that the triple killer should not have been discharged. The Nottingham Inquiry is examining the events surrounding the killings of Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates on 13 June 2023 and the aftermath.

Two online travel rivals are now selling side by side on American Express Travel. Airbnb on Thursday became the exclusive vacation rental partner for Amex Travel, putting more than 1 million listings in a new Homes tab on AmexTravel.com and the Amex Travel app.

Skift tracked 57 travel funding rounds in Q3 2026, down from 75 in Q2 and 110 in Q1. AI-native rounds fell to 12 from 25, and their share of all rounds dropped to 21% from 33%. Q3 investment totaled $1.38 billion, but a single $1 billion round for Adani Airports carried it. Excluding that deal, funding fell 25% from Q2 and 72% from Q1.

Sign into the PS private terminal in Los Angeles and someone on the team will quickly ask if you'd like the same thing you had last time — they always remember. Surprisingly few hotels manage that level of recall, and even fewer members' clubs of late. The brand is super-serving a difficult clientele in an exceptionally complicated business, so I wanted to hear from Amina Belouizdad Porter, PS's CEO, how the company thinks about what it has built. She came to PS from private equity, and before that hotel development, and she talks about the business with an investor's discipline and an operator's affection.

Hotel operators in the UAE are relying on travelers from short-haul markets such as India, China and Russia to support their recovery from the worst impacts of the U. S.-Iran war, as higher airfares continue to keep away some long-haul guests. “We’re targeting short-haul markets like India, China, and Russia, that are a five- to six-hour flight away,” said Saurabh Tiwari, vice president for the Middle East, Maldives and Sri Lanka at IHCL, which operates the Taj brand. “Since jet fuel prices are more expensive than before, it is hard to expect people to come from long-haul markets like the Americas or Australia. Attracting visitors from long-haul [markets] is going to be wishful thinking.”

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