Manchester is buzzing this summer. Football's journey home began with England winning their opening Euros game at Old Trafford. We've hosted more than 100,000 music-lovers in just one weekend, and basked in long, sunny days, too.
To celebrate the people who make Manchester the tour-de-force it now is, the Manchester Evening News is going out to chat to them. We're speaking to people who work in the city centre - from shop assistants, to florists, and record shop junkies.
Where's better to start than one of the city's most popular clothing stores? Thrift Shop Manchester, next to Piccadilly Gardens bus station, is a haunt of the hyper-trendy searching for the next look before the rest of us know whatever the new 'black' is.
