ALEX POLIZZI returns as The Hotel Inspector and, in the opening episode, has to tackle one of her most trying hoteliers yet.

She is in Liverpool, at Epstein House, where hotel owner Patrick Duggan is struggling to keep his business afloat.

When he bought it, he had big dreams for his guest house, the former home of the late Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles. He felt he couldn’t go wrong and that the business would be highly profitable, but the fact that Ms Polizzi is paying him a visit implies that could not be further from the truth.