The Ritz Hotel, London 300 people were evacuated to the nearby May Fair Hotel following a fire alarm in the hotel. No one was hurt in the blaze, which started in the basement casino kitchen's extraction vents. The Ritz casino only suffered "minor damage". Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was convalescing at the Ritz when she died following a stroke on 8 April 2013. There has been criticism because the Ritz has not paid any corporation tax since being taken over by the Barclay twins. The accounts indicate that the profitable hotel uses a series of tax reliefs to reduce its corporation tax
Ritz Hotel Project was to be found on the city's independent music circuit and its primary venue was the 9:30 club, just 5 doors away, then located at 930 F St. N.W. Had the New York artists stayed through the weekend, they might have discovered the city's DC HarDCore scene, which was explicitly political, featuring bands such as Minor Threat, Bad Brains and Black Flag. Ritz Hotel Project The Ritz Hotel Project was a collaboration between New York City's COLAB group and Washington, D.C.'s Washington Project for the Arts. The idea was that the two groups would collaborate to produce an event similar