{"id":11618,"date":"2015-12-05T15:44:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T15:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=11618"},"modified":"2015-12-05T15:44:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T15:44:38","slug":"significance-green-light-for-fawlty-towers-inspiration-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11618","title":{"rendered":"Significance? Green light for \u2018Fawlty Towers\u2019 inspiration to go\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>The hotel that inspired the cult TV series Fawlty Towers is to be knocked down and replaced with retirement flats.<\/u><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>The BBC writes:<br \/>\n<\/u>Churchill Retirement Living will convert the site after its plans were approved by Torbay Council.<\/p>\n<p>Former owner Donald Sinclair unwittingly became the inspiration for Cleese&#8217;s character Basil Fawlty.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-bedroom hotel ceased trading early this year and Churchill Retirement Living applied to use the site for 36 retirement apartments.<\/p>\n<p>Fawlty Towers, voted number one in the British Film Institute&#8217;s 100 Greatest Television Programmes in 2000, ran for just 12 episodes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-devon-34932882\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a> at BBC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hotel that inspired the cult TV series Fawlty Towers is to be knocked down and replaced with retirement flats.\u00a0 The BBC writes: Churchill Retirement Living will convert the site after its plans were approved by Torbay Council. Former owner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11618\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11619,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions\/11619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}