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Pub Of The Year 2010 - an update...

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City centre pub The Deansgate is the early front runner in the race to be crowned MEN Pub Of The Year for 2010. Hundreds of votes have already been cast in our competition as the race to find the region’s top pub began in earnest last week (March 1). Read more…

Bank Top and Greenmill win national awards

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Bank Top Brewery of Bolton and Greenmill Brewery of Rochdale have won national awards. Read more…

CityLife Pub Of The Year 2010 - vote for your favourite!

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We have launched our bid to find the best pub or bar in Manchester. We know there are some real gems across our patch, pubs that are true standard bearers and hubs of the community. And now we want your help to find the finest. Read more…

Worthington's Crown pub gets national second place

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A COUNTRY inn near Wigan has finished runner-up in a national pub competition. The Crown Hotel, in Worthington, was one of three runners-up in the Campaign for Real Ale event, which was won by the Kelham Island Tavern, in Sheffield, for the second year running. Besides quality of beer, the judges... Read more…

Main event: National Winter Ales Festival 2010

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THE pleasure of a well poured pint of real ale is a rare indulgence with a Sunday pub lunch for most of us. But on January 20, a nicely stocked bar of over 100 real ales will be a reality for anyone who visits the National Winter Ales Festival in Manchester. Read more…

Winter Ales Festival returns for 2010

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NOW this is a proper winter! And so the National Winter Ales Festival – which arrives in our snowbound city on January 20 – has never sounded more appropriate. And how better than to warm yourself up than the annual four-day celebration of the nation’s best seasonal beers. Read more…

Meet more people in Manchester with CitySocialising

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MAKE the most of your social life in Manchester in 2010 by registering with CitySocialising, which is free to join. Plus, for a limited time, CityLife readers can take up a free 30-day PREMIUM membership offer (worth £18.99) - to join in cool nights out and meet new people. Read more…

Beers of the year 2009

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BRITAIN became the top beer brewing country in the world this year and Greater Manchester played its part with its 25 breweries. Here are a selection of award winners from the region and a few of Dave Griffiths' favourites this year. Read more…

The Ox is better in pastures new

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IT is always good when a pub is pulled back from the brink. The Lass O’Gowrie in Charles Street was rescued from obscurity a few years ago and went on to win this year’s Manchester Food And Drink Festival award for best pub, and now The Ox, another old city centre favourite, seems to be back to its best. Read more…

Worthington's The Crown shortlisted for Pub Of The Year

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A WIGAN boozer is hoping to go one better than 2008 and bring a prestigious national CAMRA Pub Of The Year trophy back to Greater Manchester. Read more…

Blues pub Mitchell Arms faces the final whistle

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AN EASTLANDS pub visited by hundreds of Manchester City fans each week could be closed down. The Mitchell Arms in Ancoats has been put up for sale by owners Punch Taverns. Read more…

Pub of the week: The Mark Addy

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BACK in the late Eighties, come Sunday afternoon the city centre was a culinary desert. If you needed something more substantial than long-lost teashop Meng And Ecker could provide, you went over the Irwell to The Mark Addy. Read more…

Mark E Smith takes his place in wall of fame

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THERE’S only one thing more imposing than The Fall’s legendary frontman Mark E Smith – and that’s two Mark E Smiths. The rock ‘n’ roll renegade, who has famously seen off more bandmates than the Sugababes, has been immortalised in this new artwork on display at The Northern pub in Manchester’s Oldham Street. Read more…

Pub of the week: The Black Lion

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THE Black Lion roaring back to rude health is not just good for Manchester’s pub scene. It is another link in an emerging cask crawl in the part of Salford which clashes heads with its big civic cousin. Read more…

Pub of the week: The White Horse

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HALLOWEEN half-term with the kids needn’t descend into tinned pasta hell if you head to the White Horse in Swinton. The landmark white hostelry dates back 200 years and is allegedly haunted – so it might even be a good place to go in search of, ahem, spirits. Read more…

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Beers of the year 2009

Richard wrote: 2 months ago

Re: Millstone Ye Olde Vic beer. I guess brewed for the pub of the same name in Edgeley that looks so frightening that I know of certain people that have not been all that keen on going in. And then when being forced across the threshold they are then sarcastically abused by the landlord.

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Pub Of The Year 2010 - an update...

Paul Ogden wrote:

City centre pub The Deansgate is the early front runner in the race to be crowned MEN Pub Of The Year for 2010. Hundreds of votes have already been cast in our competition as the race to find the region’s top pub began in earnest last week (March 1).

Read more

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