Manchester is a lot of things, but one cardinal sin it can never be accused of is throwing a boring party. Whether it’s celebrating the Lionesses’ Euros win in style in a sun-soaked city centre last year, or ringing in a birthday or New Year with a funky Friday in Mint Lounge - thousands flock to our city safe in the knowledge they’ll have a good time.
Greater Manchester, just like the rest of the country, has been gearing up this week for one very remarkable event - the first coronation in just shy of 70 years.
It promises to be a national spectacle, the likes of which the vast majority of us have never seen - apart from my 92-year-old, Ancoats-born grandma who amusingly declared that she would not be watching the ceremony as, in her words, ‘I have seen one before’. She has, instead, arranged to get her Covid spring booster jab on this most momentous day.
