Sunday People

MY CITY GOING FROM RUFF TO REGAL

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into MANCTOPIA is a fascinatin­gg insight

is how Manchester’s gentrifica­tioncation delighting the high-flyers but niggling the locals.

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at dog rough and to be avoidededn­ownow the centre of a property war. ar.

This week on the BBC2 show, how, hotshot developer Tim Heatley tley

off-plan got it in the neneck in a room fullull of

with buyers who were less thann happy his compacompa­ny. One lady even brought her dog tto show she meanteantb­usiness.business.

Pensiopens­ioners Anne andd Jackie were divided aabout Collyhurst’srst’s regenerati­on,regenera with compulsory­mpulsory purchase orders forcingg them and their neighneigh­bours out. Fairair to say

they wweren’t mad for it.

CORRIE Icons continued this week were a hop and a skip down cobbled with a celebra celebratio­n of Sally Metcalfe,

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stage. scenes of her portraying the very

Afte After 34 years on the condition she was living with showed

Stre Street, Sally’s best bits why she is one of Corrie’s true icons.

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