Manchester have done it again. Below is a news item from the BBC website.
Passengers wanting first class service at Manchester Airport need go no further than the public lavatories - rated five-star by a "loo watchdog".
It scooped the best airport toilets at the annual Loo of the Year Awards Ceremony. An army of 300 toilet attendants regularly tackle the 1,015 U-bends, 464 urinals and 1,021 sinks to keep them the some of the cleanest in the UK.
Secret visits were carried out by toilet-checking judges.
The airport deals with 20 million passengers each year, who go through 43,930,000 metres (27,297 miles) of toilet roll over the course of 12 months. If "unrolled" this would stretch the equivalent distance of flying Manchester to Singapore four times.
Head of customer experience at the airport, Sarah Barrett, said: "We are absolutely delighted to have earned this recognition because in order to meet the expectations of our customers, we must get the 'basics' right.
"The award extends to all of the cleaning staff - they are among the many unsung heroes of Manchester Airport."
The various categories in the competition received more than 1,500 entries, and each toilet was graded against 100 different criteria. The annual Loo of the Year Awards started in 1987 and focuses on 'away from home' toilets throughout the UK. McDonalds was voted as having overall best toilets in the UK.
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Some observations. The Loo of the Year Awards site says it is for T1 Concourse toilets, not the lot. Best Scottish airport ones are at INV, with no winners declared in Wales and NI, so doesn't there need to be a flush-off between MAN and INV for UK champion status?
Obviously the airport have put out a press release but it has yet to make it onto the Airport website - perhaps they are too flushed with their success to have done it yet
The amount of bog roll used annually is the equivalent of flying MAN-SIN 4 times, so that would take more than a week to unravel at the moment
And finally, I wish the organisers would use a word other than loo. Toilet, bog or convenience, but loo - nah
Suzeman