More things holiday hotels still get wrong NORAJOHNSON BREAKINGVIEWS

SMALL wardrobes that assume all guests wear mini dresses. Insufficient hangers. Safes too small for a laptop in supposedly business hotels.

Hairdryers in the bathroom, not the bedroom. A ‘desk’ which could so easily double as a dressing table if only there were accessible plug sockets and a mirror. And the only mirror with enough light to shave or apply make ­ up above the washbasin. Result?

Ending up with a hernia squeezing between basin and toilet so you can get near enough to see what you’re doing!

Additionally, paperthin walls, made worse by connecting doors so you can hear your neighbours’ every cough, sneeze, snore and more (oops!). Useless hotel room doors, with little sound insulation so you’re woken at 4am when the party crowd roll back in discussing their evening loudly as they stumble through the deserted corridors. Plus there are invariably insufficient sun loungers ­ you shouldn’t have to get up at the crack of dawn to nab one by the pool.

Room service menus consisting only of overpriced stodge drowning in fat, cheese or cream, apart from maybe one or two token veggie items that sound totally unappetising. Try sticking to a post­Christmas diet on that lot...

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Worboys Thinking Aloud

IT was a dream. The nightmare was waking up to find it hadn’t happened. Once again I didn’t come close. But people do win the lottery, and last July somebody won the jackpot of €230 million. Since then, there have been three winners of €150 million or more. So, how do they spend these unimaginable sums of money?

Winning €150 million would open up a few possibilities. The first could be to identify 400 cases where a child needs urgent, unaffordable and perhaps life­saving medical treatment. Including transport costs each could cost about €50,000. The sum of €20 million would cover this and we are still left with €130 million.

It would be nice to identify 100 deserving homeless people. €200,000 each would buy all of them a decent house or flat and adequate basic furniture for it. There goes another €20 million.

While it would be impossible to rescue enough factory­farmed live­