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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Ashlie Blakey

Parklife festival passes 'without major incident' with 70 arrests over weekend

Police said Parklife festival passed 'without major incident' as a total of 70 arrests were made over the weekend.

The majority of the arrests at the festival, which saw 70,000 music fans fill Heaton Park on each day last weekend, were for drugs offences. A number of arrests were also made on suspicion of possession of a bladed article.

In full, the following arrests were made: seven people on suspicion of possession of illegal drugs, 22 on suspicion of possession with intent to supply illegal drugs, two on suspicion of possession of a bladed article, one on suspicion of a public order offence, one on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker, one on suspicion of a sexual offence and one on suspicion of drink driving.

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