Cheers! Addition puts pub over 600 gins

RECORD breaker: Phil Whiteman at the Old Bell Inn

The “forefather” of quality English gins, has joined the elite top shelf at a Saddleworth country inn.

Thomas Dakin, a small batch gin, has become the 600th variety to join one of the world’s most impressive collections at the Old Bell Inn and Restaurant in Delph.

The 18th-century inn was awarded Guinness World Record accolade for the most gins commercially available when it topped 430.