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More here.Īcquitted: Footballer Benjamin Mendy has been cleared of all charges after being found not guilty of rape and attempted rape. Outdoor mini golf, a karaoke space, a zipline and a climbing wall will also be built. An initial planning application was approved in 2021 and the proposals for the £135m project have now been rubber stamped. The 'multi-media centre' will boast a range of indoor leisure activities at the former Galleries shopping centre, off Market Street. Multi-media centre: A six-screen, 700 seat cinema, a hotel, hundreds of new homes, a bowling alley, food hall, restaurants and bars will be built in Wigan as part of a huge town centre redevelopment. “There’s not much else like this in Salford at the moment.” “We’re brewing beer from scratch, we’re baking bread from scratch,” says operations manager Siobhan Youngs. And it’s a great team that’s brought it back to life,” he says.

“It was a shame to see such a historic building empty, so we’ve decided to do something innovative with it. Mike Brown, head of strategic partnerships at Salford University, says it’s a long-term investment that will see students able to integrate the businesses into their study programmes. Coming up first will be Archie’s who will be serving up Sri Lankan food through September, and Gwafu, who will come in with vegan cuisine from West Africa. Meanwhile, pop-up kitchens will take over the food prep spaces making toasties and lunches during the day, with new vendors coming in for residencies at night.

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Next door to the cafe and bakery space, there’s a full brewery set up, where South Korea-born brewer Changmin Lee, whose CV names the Vocation brewery in Hebden Bridge and Marble right here in Manchester, is brewing IPAs, stouts and soon sour beers too, to be served fresh out of the taps next door. The Old Fire Station bar and restaurant in Salford (Image: Sean Hansford | Manchester Evening News)Īlex and Eric, formerly bakers at the celebrated Pollen in Ancoats, are making white, rye and seeded sourdough, and some very serious pastries from scratch - from pain au chocolat to Scandinavian-style cinnamon knots to old school cream buns. A bowl of soothing pork wantons in chicken broth helped calm the fires.”īut despite all this, Ben says the ‘wavy potatoes’, showered with signature mouth-numbing Szechuan peppercorns, proved to be some of the most compulsive eating. “The house speciality ‘burning noodles’, served with spicy minced pork, were everything Wendy promised, hot and fragrant (you can ask them to calm down on the chilli too, Wendy says, there’s no judgement). “A plate of braised then torn up chicken with chilli oil and pepper, with ribbons of courgette, served cold, was a hit too. “Chopped up chunks of ‘sweet and sour’ ribs are not the kind you might be used to, crisp morsels of deliciousness,” he writes. It’s given them an authentic taste of home.Īs Ben reports, the dishes are superb. Since opening they have been inundated with Chinese students from Szechuan - some of whom had barely been home in recent years because of the pandemic.

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The focus of her restaurant is very much on Szechuan cuisine, with Wendy adapting her recipes from home cooking to the professional kitchen and training up three chefs. There’s so many varieties, we’ve not even done 10 percent of it here,” she tells Ben. But if you go to China now, Szechuan food is the number one choice, particularly noodles. “We always have this debate whether Szechaun food or Cantonese food is better. “The gardens of homes in the surrounding areas that have been lovingly nurtured by the homeowners are now a haven for these industrious pollinators.' 'The bees are essentially on holiday from Cheshire in Miles Platting,' he told reporter Adam Maidment. So they’re spending the summer in a specialised tree protection location within the Miles Platting development. Ken had to make sure the bees were moved at least three miles from their original hive to effectively reset their ‘internal GPS’ before they can return to Cheshire. He says the recent unpredictable weather has resulted in a rise in colonies splitting from their original hives. Ken Boughey, a contractor from FrameTech and a passionate beekeeper, has stepped in to help them. They are part of a colony which became separated from its hive in Cheshire and ended up at the Saxon Square development in East Manchester.

It's nice to hear that a swarm of bees have been ‘holidaying’ in Miles Platting.