Award-winning hotelier Alex Polizzi and her mother, Olga, who have become equal business partners, start work on a sweeping renovation project at their 37-bedroom medieval coaching inn in east Sussex.

The Alfriston’s bedrooms are prettily decorated and each features a statement headboard - Rob James What’s the point of an English country hotel? For me: a venerable old house, graciously repurposed, ...

For the last 15 years, Alex Polizzi has spent her career telling people how to run a hotel. Now she's putting her money where her mouth is - as she attempts to open one of her own. For years she ...

Olga and Alex Polizzi have opened a shop right next door to their hotel, The Star in Alfriston in East Sussex. The Polizzis ...