Manchester Pride has admitted that it is unable to explain figures that were quoted by its Chairman Andrew Stokes in an interview that appeared on the rainbownetwork.com (gaydarnation.com) website in August 2007.
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FULL VIDEO REPORT COMING SOON
The candlelight AIDS vigil on the final night of Manchester Pride has always been a key event and, to some people, the most important part.
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Cyclists dared to bare all in chilly conditions on Friday 13 June at Manchester’s third annual Naked Bike Ride. We asked riders and members of the public what they thought.
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For years the LGBT community has been told that one of the reasons why the gay village being must be fenced off and ticket-only during Manchester Pride is due to the bylaws concerning public drinking.
Now, once again, that policy has been exposed for the fraud it always was.
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Cine City in Withington is the latest historic building to go in the epidemic of greedy, short-sighted and inept development that has swept Manchester over the past ten years.
Formerly The Scala, it opened in 1912 and was only the third cinema in Britain.
Meanwhile the Victorian railway arches on Store Street, near Piccadilly, are being demolished.
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More ticket prices prices have been announced for Manchester Pride 2008. Note that in many cases tickets are ’subject to a booking and transaction fee’ (see below).
‘EARLY BIRD’ TICKET PRICE UP BY 25%
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At Manchester’s latest flashmob event a crowd played bingo in Piccadilly Gardens.
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More than 1000 people protested about Western media coverage of the Beijing Olympics and Tibet. After a two-hour demonstration outside the BBC, they marched up Oxford Street to Manchester Town Hall.
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There will be a flashmob somewhere in Manchester city centre tomorrow lunchtime. I’m hoping to be there to shoot a video of whatever happens.
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As the running costs of Manchester Pride continue to spiral out of control, it has emerged that anyone buying an ‘early bird’ ticket this year will pay £12.50. A 25% increase on last year’s price of £10.
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