Week Ending: Bacon calls time on nightclub; Franny Lee’s bum steer

TIM Bacon, the pubs and bars entrepreneur who has created a host of successful bar concepts, from The Living Room to The Alchemist, Botantist and Gusto, has called time on nightclub ownership.

He has sold Suburbia, a late-night drinking den in the popular south Manchester village Hale to its management team led by general manager Tom Thornton-Brookes.

A laughing Bacon said he was “too old ” for nightclubs, and revealed that on at least one occasion he’d had to change his mobile phine number as he’d received late night calls from inebriated contacts who had tried unsuccessfully to get in to the venue, known by some locals as ‘The Last Chance Saloon’.

“I won’t miss that part of it,” Bacon said.

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More of our chat with Tim Bacon will be reported next week, but for the record it was hugely encouraging to see him looking well amid his ongoing battle against cancer, which he revealed last year.

He said that after things “had looked a bit dicey for a bit” he is responding to his chemotherapy and is “keeping on fighting” and making the most of life.
 
Keep it up Tim.

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Manchester City FC’s infamous Welcome to Manchester poster caused a storm in this decade after the ‘noisy neighbours’, as Sir Alex Ferguson, called them signed former United player Carlos Tevez.

However, it is not only modern-day ad-men who can come up with cheeky  ideas to wind-up footballing rivals, it seems.

Francis Lee, the former City star turned paper products magnate has revealed that he considered putting the United logo on a range of toilet rolls in the 1970s, until fearing legal action, he had second thoughts.

Such a shame, we’re sure he would have ‘cleaned-up’ with City and Liverpool fans at least.

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