Aston Hotels operations manager John Deighton, joined Richard Summerfield, room yield manager, and head chef Bill Johnston, on a visit yesterday to the site of the Sleep Inn, one of the region's newest hotels. Owned by Aston Hotels, it is being built near the A1M at Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, at a cost of £4.5m. A further eight Sleep Inn hotels are planned across the country, creating more than 200 jobs nationwide. Recruitment has begun for more than 30 full and part-time staff, including restaurant, hotel, reception and housekeeping posts for the Newton Aycliffe site.