By Jacqueline Hughes-Lundy
Every now and again my teenage daughter decides we should share some quality time together and ‘do’ something. This time the ‘do’ was afternoon tea.
Having sampled most of what the major hotels in Manchester have to offer, we decided to opt for something a little more ‘bijou’ and headed out to...
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Review by Jacqueline Hughes-Lundy
Spinningfields started life as a business district, closed at weekends with no real reason to walk through it unless you were giving your money away to lawyers, bankers and accountants. It had a smattering of well-known chain restaurants towards the Irwell, but certainly never appeared on my map of ‘where shall...
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Review: Downton Abbey, ITV
Somehow, I accidentally managed to miss the entire first series of Downton Abbey. So I thought I’d get the box set and wait for a suitably autumnal Sunday, with a pile of crumpets and pots of tea, and watch it all at once – but it never happened. And now, suddenly,...
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TV REVIEW: Strictly Come Dancing, BBC1
Is there anyone left in the world who still finds Bruce Forsyth funny? Clearly, the commissioning editors of Strictly must roar with laughter at his creaky bon mots, or else why would they insist on wheeling him out, year after year, and presenting him to the viewing public, like...
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TV Review: RED OR BLACK? ITV, Saturday
Some time ago, I used to go to the Grosvenor Casino on Whitworth Street, to play roulette. But unlike the hardcore gamblers who made random little piles of chips across the board, I always played it boringly safe, and stuck with red or black. I found that was...
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