Poet Dylan Thomas's regular watering hole in the Carmarthenshire town of Laugharne is to start a new chapter as a boutique hotel.Browns Hotel, which has been closed for five years, is to be given a makeover in time for the 100th anniversary of its most famous customer's birth.The current owner has been awarded 230,000 towards the refurbishment of the Grade II-listed building.The aim is to return it to how it would have looked in Thomas's 1950s heyday.Browns was last used as a hotel in 1959 and since it closed as a pub in 2006 has fallen into disrepair.It forms part of the Dylan Thomas tourism trail in Laugharne.READ IT ALL HERE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-12447989