Hotel giant wants school

THE WORLD'S biggest hotel chain is looking to buy the A-listed former home of Donaldson's Deaf School, it was reported today.

Hotel giant Intercontinental, which had been due to open a 17-storey hotel next to the city's Haymarket station before it was rejected after a public inquiry, is believed to be lining up a luxury new venture in the Capital on the 18-acre site nearby.

The A-listed building has been lying empty for almost three years since the deaf school moved to West Lothian.

Representatives of the hotel chain have been on a guided tour of the site with economic development experts at the city council, a source was reported as saying today.