Rangers must find new venue for general meeting as hotel pulls out
Monday 9 February 2015 22:03, UK
The Rangers board will have to find a new venue for its crucial general meeting after the hotel due to host it pulled out.
The club say they will look for another venue in the London area to stage the vote that will decide the board's future.
The club announcement on Friday that the meeting would be held in a 500-capacity venue in Kensington, central London, sparked major controversy and the hotel has pulled out of the arrangement.
A club statement read: "Rangers has today been informed that the Millennium Gloucester Hotel & Conference Centre which was the intended venue for the requisitioned general meeting on Wednesday 4 March 2015 is no longer available.
"The hotel management at the Millennium Gloucester has taken advice from different quarters and concluded that the GM cannot be managed without significant disruption to guests and neighbours."
The Daily Record, which reported earlier that the hotel might not stage the meeting, later revealed it had been banned from attending Rangers press conferences and Ibrox matches by club chief executive Derek Llambias.
