Sacked workers barricaded in hotel for 3 weeks

Two workers have spent three weeks barricaded in the bedroom of a closed hotel in protest at losing their jobs.

Assistant manager Mark Craig, 20, and kitchen porter Steven Black, 16, staged their protest at the Meldrum Arms Hotel in Oldmeldrum, Inverurie.

The pair live on food delivered in a bucket pulled up on a piece of string.



Their former employer Oxford Hotels and Inns said the duo have now been paid the £500 each in outstanding wages they are owed.

But Mr Craig and Mr Black said they would not be leaving the hotel until they had confirmation that the money was in their bank accounts.

Police are understood to have warned their former employers to leave the heating on until the dispute has been sorted out. A Grampian Police spokesman said: "This is a civil matter and unless a breach of the peace is committed we would not intervene."