Children laughed as they climbed on the Vimto sculpture in the university's northern campus while their parents learned about the city's iconic drink. It's a far cry away from the horrors their nation has seen over recent months.
Julia Grinenko has been living in Heywood for just over three weeks after spending days travelling from her home village of Ozera, to the north east of Kyiv, through Hungary to get to Manchester. She spent 16 days living under Russian occupation, and half of her village has since been left destroyed.
Her family remain in the village which Russian soldiers have left a shell of its former self. Her mood now, speaking in a sun-lit Sackville Gardens in Manchester City Centre, is completely changed to how it was just a few months ago, when her and her family spent 16 days in their cellar hiding from drunken Russian soldiers.
