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A blood moon lunar eclipse will illuminate the sky tonight with a bright red glow.

This summer a hive of vibrant, super-sized worker bee sculptures has landed in Manchester for the biggest public art trail the city has ever seen.

Fans attending one-day festivals with headliners Liam Gallagher and Queens of the Stone Age at the end of June quickly flooded social media with complaints of poor organisation, long queues and overcrowding.

Flourish Foods will provide the city with an opportunity for people to buy groceries and household items without plastic packaging.

A spokesman for the operator warned of the cancellations earlier in the week, suggesting that a large number of staff had booked the day off to watch the World Cup final leaving a shortage.

The event’s Facebook page said that the demonstration was held in order to “highlight the struggle against Trump’s bigoted policies – from fighting racism, war and sexism.”

The plastic-free pledge came after the River Tame, which flows through Greater Manchester, was declared the most polluted river in the world.

Just over a year on from the Grenfell tragedy in London, two tower blocks in Manchester’s Green Quarter are faced with the daily stress of knowing that they are living in a building which was built using the same highly flammable cladding that contributed to the disaster; and that they face a bill of upwards of £3 million to remove and replace it

Tabley House, which houses 59 adults, was branded ‘inadequate’ by the health watchdog and was placed into the ‘special measures’ category.

A new awards ceremony is launching to showcase the best individuals and organisations in Greater Manchester.

The new Lord Mayor of Manchester, Councillor June Hitchen, was also on hand to mark the celebrations, which coincided with the 100 year anniversary of the end of the First World War.