Players can dart back to Flight Club from next month as bookings go live
The popular King Street bar has announced it will welcome back customers from August 1 to help Mancunians "schedule some much-needed ridiculous joy back into their lives."
Manchester’s social darts drinking venue is passing the projectiles back to punters from next month – as staff prepare to open the doors to Flight Club for the first time since lockdown.
The King Street bar has announced it will welcome back customers from August 1, allowing Mancunians to “schedule some much-needed ridiculous joy back into their lives.”
Flight Club bookings have officially gone live, and given the venue’s enormous popularity pre-quarantine, the team are already anticipating high demand for early slots.
Whilst the hospitality sector was given the nod to resume trading back on July 4, Flight Club staff are using July to implement a variety of safety measures to their premises that protect customers without interfering with the social darts experience.
Flight Club
Some of changes designed to make the venue COVID-secure will include:
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Bookable semi-private playing areas
Bookable tables for dining and drinking
Pre-order and pre-pay food and drink
Sanitiser stations throughout the venue
All darts and playing areas will be thoroughly cleaned between each booking, with the team being trained to keep an eye on social distancing measures around the clock.
Food will also be back on the table – with chefs whipping up a smaller selection of dishes in a hygienic kitchen (including pizzas and sharing fries).
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Steve Moore, co-founder of Flight Club said: “We were founded on the idea of bringing joy to as many people as possible, which we all need now more than ever, so we are so excited to be opening our doors again and show you what we have on offer.
“We want to help people make up for those missed moments, so we’ve been working behind the scenes to ensure that we can still give you the best experience possible and can’t wait to delight and surprise every customer that joins us from August.”
How will the Government’s new digital ID alternative for alcohol sales work?
Emily Sergeant
All licensed venues across England and Wales now have the choice to introduce digital proof of age for alcohol sales alongside physical.
Instead of having to hand over physical ID that contains personal information, such as names and home addresses, customers now have the choice to simply provide confirmation that they are 18 or over on their phone – helping to better protect privacy and personal safety in the process.
This means that, no matter whether you’re buying a drink at your favourite pub, heading to a festival, or enjoying a night out at a concert, you won’t need to worry if you’ve left your ID at home.
According to the Government, this new change will benefit businesses greatly too, as certified digital services are able to check that an ID is genuine and belongs to the person presenting it much easier than the alternative can, which therefore helps to reduce the risk of any fake or borrowed IDs going undetected.
Well, according to the Government, it could be as simple as a customer showing a QR code for staff to scan, or tapping their phone against a compatible reader, where staff will then receive a clear confirmation on their device that the customer has passed the age check.
This change follows a 2024 Government consultation where it was reported that 72% of respondents supported the use of digital identities for age verification when buying alcohol.
Digital Government Minister Stephanie Peacock reiterated that ‘it will remain an individual or business’ choice whether to use or adopt [digital ID]’ and that physical ID will ‘still remain a valid way’ for customers to prove their age.
“This groundbreaking change in the law will mean you do not need to carry a physical ID, nor hand over sensitive personal information such as your name or address just to prove your age, allowing everyone to feel safer on a night out,” she concluded.
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Manchester to host G20 Summit in 2027 with more than a dozen world leaders descending on the city
Emily Sergeant
Manchester has been confirmed as the host city for the G20 Summit next year.
It was already announced back in November last year that the G20 Summit would be coming to the UK in 2027, and plans were apparently already being discussed to host it in Manchester even before Andy Burnham became Prime Minister and Number 10 North was set up.
But now, ahead of this year’s leaders’ summit being held in Miami in December, it has been confirmed that the G20 Summit will arrive in Manchester in November 2027.
Manchester is said to have been picked to host the leaders’ summit because of its ‘cultural heritage’.
Bringing together 19 of the world’s largest economies and two major multilateral bodies – the European Union and the African union – G20 members who will be invited to attend the summit next year make up 85% of global GDP, 75% of international trade, and two-thirds of the world’s population as a whole.
Manchester has been confirmed to host the G20 Summit in 2027 / Credit: 10 Downing Street | Paul Kagame (Flickr)
G20 members are also some of the UK’s closest economic partners, the Government insists.
17 of the UK’s top 20 global export markets attend the summit, as do 18 of the UK’s top 20 sources of foreign direct investment.
The presidency of the G20 is currently held by the US but will pass to the UK after the leaders’ summit hosted by the president at his Trump National Doral Miami golf resort in December.
The 2027 summit will be held at Manchester Central, it has been confirmed, and other locations across the UK will also host other G20 events as part of the year-long presidency, but these are yet to be announced.
The Manc -
7th July 2020 
