Two of Manchester’s finest and most well-known luxury hotels have featured in a prestigious travel platform’s top 30 hotels in the UK for 2020.
Hotel Brooklyn and Hotel Gotham are flying the flag for the city of Manchester after making the cut in independent luxury travel magazine / online platform Condé Nast Traveller’s top 30 list of hotels and accommodations in the country.
This top 30 list is compiled based on the opinions, experiences and ratings of the readers of Condé Nast Traveller.
Hotel Brooklyn came in at number 17 on the list, and Hotel Gotham took the 22nd spot.
Both hotels are impressive additions to the ever-developing Manchester skyline – offering a range of the finest boutique four and five star accommodation, as well as award-winning restaurants and bars – and help make the city a go-to destination within the UK, Europe and throughout the world.
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Given their impressive architecture, they’ve also each doubled-up as filming locations for major Hollywood blockbusters and hit TV shows over the years as well.
Condé Nast Traveller – a subgroup of mass media company Condé Nast, which owns Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Wired, Architectural Digest (AD) and more – is widely-regarded as one of the most well-respected travel inspiration platforms, so this is a pretty big deal for the Manchester accommodations scene too.
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Especially as Manchester has beat out many other leading UK cities, some of which – including the English capital of London – do not feature on the list at all.
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Scotland’s prestigious five star resort The Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Perth took the top spot on the list.
Cliveden House in Taplow, Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh – The Caledonian in Edinburgh, Luckham Park Hotel & Spa in Chippenham, and Soho Farmhouse in Chipping Norton each make up the rest of the top five spots.
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Manchester was one of the only cities on the list to have multiple hotels within the same city / town featured on the list, along with the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, the much sought-after Cotswald village of Broadway, and the historic Somerset city of Bath.
Aside from the two Manchester hotels, the only other North West offering on the list is Linthwaite House in Windemere, Cumbria.
You can check out the full top 30 list via the Condé Nast Traveller website here.
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Sir Ian McKellen pays emotional tribute to long-time friend and fellow northern actor Sir Patrick Stewart
Emily Sergeant
Sir Ian McKellen has paid an emotional tribute to his long-time friend and fellow northern actor, Sir Patrick Stewart, following his death.
Sir Patrick Stewart – who was born and bred in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, and is best-known for his theatre work alongside an illustrious 60-year screen career, taking on prominent roles in franchises such as Star Trek and X-Men – sadly passed away at the age of 86, with his death being announced publicly yesterday evening (29 October).
And now, his long-time friend and fellow northern actor, Sir Ian McKellen, has paid tribute.
Sir Patrick and Sir Ian shared the stage together countless times over their decades-long careers, but also famously starred alongside each other in the X-Men franchise, and subsequent Marvel movies, as Charles Xavier/Professor X and Magneto.
The tribute, shared across Sir Ian’s social media platforms, reads: “Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
“We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions.
“My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in ‘Star Trek’. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”
“Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did, for not just his devoted Trekkies, but film and theatre audiences who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes (‘X-Men’ of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
“America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin.
“But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.”
Sir Patrick Stewart’s farewell performance will be in Avengers: Doomsday, which is being released in UK cinemas on 18 December 2026
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Classic FM will be back playing calming music for anxious pets this Bonfire Night
Emily Sergeant
Classic FM will be back playing calming music for anxious pets during this year’s fireworks season.
Bonfire Night may be loved by us humans for the spectacular firework displays and all the festive-themed activities that come along with it… but sadly, the November holiday isn’t quite so fun for our four-legged friends.
Loud bangs, flashing lights, and unpleasant strong smell of spent explosives are just some of the reasons why fireworks are frightening to pets.
Not only that, but with multiple bangs occurring from numerous displays across this time of year, pets are rarely able to pinpoint when and where the booming explosions are coming from, therefore creating even more anxiety around this time of year.
Classic FM will play calming music for anxious pets during this year’s fireworks / Credit: DESIGNECOLOGIST (via Unsplash)
Which is why, for the ninth year running now, Classic FM is once again teaming up with the RSPCA for two Pet Classics programmes packed with ‘the most soothing and comforting classical music’.
The music has been handpicked to help calm and settle any anxious pets.
A survey by the RSPCA revealed that almost two-thirds (63%) of animal owners reported their pet was distressed during fireworks season, and that playing relaxing music was the most common way (36%) to help calm or prepare their animal.
Presenters Dan Walker, Aled Jones, and Dawn O’Porter will each host a night of the specially created programme to help keep the nation’s pets calm through the whizzes and bangs.
Dan will present the first programme on Bonfire Night itself (Thursday 5 November), and then as celebrations continue throughout the weekend, Aled will be on hand to bring some peace to Friday 6 November, and Dawn picks up the baton on Saturday 7 November.
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21st October 2020 
