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Creeting House, Suffolk

Episode number: 1

Overview: Ruth Watson is doing her best to help Diana and Steve from Suffolk. They're a pair of music industry types whose family have flown the nest, leaving them rambling around their imposing home, Creeting House.

Stubton Hall, East Midlands

Episode number: 2

Overview: Ruth helps American ex-pats Kent and Claire, whose ambitious five million pound hotel and spa project in Newark, Nottinghamshire has fallen six months behind schedule.

The Blackpool Hotel

Episode number: 3

Overview: Ruth visits Blackpool, where brothers Rod and Shaun Smallwood have taken over the zero-starred Kenbarry Hotel. Their ambitious plan is to reinvent it into a spa hotel.

Icon Hotel, Luton

Episode number: 4

Overview: Ruth visits Luton, where Franco and his wife Lefi are taking on a mammoth project turning two 80s office blocks into a hotel, but as debts mount can Ruth help rescue the project?

The Reading Rooms, Margate

Episode number: 5

Overview: Ruth goes to Margate in Kent, where ambitious property developers Louise and Liam are battling to launch their boutique B&B as the recession starts to bite.

The Royal, Clacton

Episode number: 6

Overview: Ruth visits Clacton-on Sea to meet an Essex entrepreneur who dreams of restoring the seaside town's famous Victorian hotel to its former glory.