A city centre Manchester bar lauded for its huge gin collection has launched a new bottomless brunch deal, and it sounds too good to pass up.
Atlas Bar, located at the Castlefield end of Deansgate, is well known for its humungous gin collection – spanning over 570 bottles at the most recent count.
Growing every week, the bar has to host an up-to-date version of its gin menu online as the printing costs would be astronomical. That’s how big the choice is here.
A Manchester mainstay for over twenty years, the bar is something of a mecca for gin lovers and was once, famously, a favourite haunt of Tony Wilson.
But now, Mancs have another reason to pay them a visit. Especially those who love themselves a boozy brunch.
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Priced at £35 per person, the new bottomless offer Priced at £35 per person, the new bottomless offer includes 90 minutes of free-flowing drinks and is available from Friday to Sunday.
Gin, of course, is a given, with unlimited gin and tonics available as part of the offer.
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Atlas gin and tonics are made from the bar’s own premium London Dry gin, created in partnership with Oldham-based distillery Defiance Spirits, then served with a slice of grapefruit and Fever Tree’s Mediterranean tonic.
There’s also a gin-based bramble cocktail available, made with lemon juice, gin and blackberry liqueur and served over crushed ice.
Elsewhere, further drinks choices include popular cocktails like Aperol spritz, bloody marys, mimosas and bellinis. glasses of red and white wine, prosecco, vodka and tonic, and pints of Amstel, Heineken 0.0%, and Inch’s cider.
Simply put, there are a lot of drinks to choose from – and that’s before you even get started on the food.
As well as enjoying 90 minutes of endless drinks, diners are also treated to a dish of their choice from the Atlas breakfast or lunch menu.
Options range from full English breakfasts and brunch favourites like Eggs Royale and Eggs Benedict to all-day treats such as smashed quarter-pound beef burgers, buttermilk fried chicken sandwiches, salt beef bagels and a three-cheese toasted sourdough.
Further dishes, including side plates, are also available to order separately for an extra cost.
In order to get the deal, tables must be booked in advance. To find out more and reserve your seat, visit the Atlas Bar website here.
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Mancunian has been named one of the ‘most attractive’ accents in the UK
Emily Sergeant
Manchester is, once again, celebrating what we already know – our accent is one of the “most attractive” in the UK.
In case you missed it, earlier this year, Manchester welcomed in 2023 with the news that our city’s accent had been named the “sexiest” the country has to offer – with a survey of 2,500 people by casino comparison site Best Casinos discovering that over half of respondents ranked it the most pleasing regional accent to the ear.
And now it turns out that that survey wasn’t a fluke, because a new study has called the Manchester accent one of the “most attractive” in the UK.
On a top 10 list compiled from the findings of a new survey of 2,000 people aged 18 to 55+ by online language tutoring service Preply, the Mancunian accent has claimed a pretty respectable fifth place.
But while there’s no doubt we can hold our heads high and be proud of claiming a spot in the top 10, this title does become a bit less impressive when you realise which other regional varieties have placed higher than us.
Mancunian has been named one of the ‘most attractive’ accents in the UK / Credit: Preply | Pexels
Fellow Northern accents Scouse and Geordie have taken second and third place on the list respectably, and the Welsh capital’s Cardiff accent rounding out the top five.
For us northerners, the grim reading continues when you learn that the London accent has clinched the top spot.
The Most Attractive Accents in the UK
London
Liverpool
Newcastle
Cardiff
Manchester
Glasgow
Birmingham
Bristol
Leeds
According to Preply, 21% of women survey respondents voted for the London accent as the most attractive in the UK, compared with just 15% of men, while 10.4% of the population picked the unique sound of the Liverpool accent as second best.
Only 8.7% of survey respondents considered the Mancunian accent to be the most attractive.
The results from this survey do, at least, go some way to shattering the findings from two surveys published last year that found the Manchester accent is considered to be one of the ‘least respected’ nationwide, especially in the corporate world of work, and that Northerners with strong accents are considered ‘less intelligent’.
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The first bright yellow Bee Network bus has hit the streets of Greater Manchester
Emily Sergeant
Greater Manchester residents will soon start to see bright yellow double decker buses travelling the region’s streets in the coming weeks.
With exactly six months to go before Greater Manchester “brings buses back under local control”, Mayor Andy Burnham has joined a number of other local leaders in unveiling the brand-new ‘Bee Network’ co-branded buses.
In what marks the biggest change to transport in Greater Manchester for almost 40 years, according to Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), bus operator Diamond – which currently runs services in Bolton – has teamed up with Go North West to run the first franchised services in Wigan, Bolton, and parts of Salford and Bury from September this year.
Diamond has agreed to start transforming their buses into Bee Network ones from this week, with more set to appear on the roads every month.
The first bright yellow double decker bus has now hit the streets of Bolton, and is serving the number 8 route – which connects Bolton and Manchester city centre via Farnworth and Salford.
The Bee Network is coming in September.
But from April you might see some yellow buses out and about. 🚌
If one of your buses is now yellow, please contact your bus operator in the usual way if you need them. 👍 #GetOnBoard for more info 👇
— Transport for Greater Manchester 🚲🚶🏾♀️ (@OfficialTfGM) March 24, 2023
As already announced by TfGM and Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), when franchising is officially introduced on 24 September 2023, 50 brand-new electric Bee Network buses will hit the streets on day one, alongside new ‘Euro VI’ vehicles, and dozens more co-branded buses from the existing fleet.
A further 50 electric buses will then be introduced onto the network in March 2024, which is when the second part of franchising starts.
All of the 270 new electric Bee Network buses will be fully accessible, with wheelchair bays, hearing induction loops, audio and visual announcement systems, and anti-slip flooring.
Mayor Andy Burnham said the first Bee Network bus entering service is “very much the start of our journey”, and added that the scheme will “ultimately deliver a greener, integrated and more inclusive transport system that will transform how people travel around our city-region.”
The first bright yellow Bee Network bus has hit the streets of Greater Manchester / Credit: TfGM
Transport Commissioner Vernon Everitt also called the first bus’s introduction onto the streets as “a further significant step” towards the integration of the Bee Network and the “transformation” of public transport and active travel in the region.
He continued: “From September we’ll also have dozens of new state-of-the-art buses serving passengers in Wigan, Bolton, and parts of Salford and Bury.
“These will be the first of many across Greater Manchester that will, alongside the new lower fares – which are already increasing ridership – and improvements to travel information, improve bus travel for everyone who lives and works here.”
Georgina Pellant -
13th May 2022 
