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Manchester marches to its own beat. Be that guitars strumming, football crowds chanting or, yes, sometimes, rain pelting, this is a city that takes pride in doing things its own way. As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, not to mention the women’s suffrage movement and communism, Manchester has long played a leading role in British history, but it has always kept one eye on the future too.

This two-way vision is plain to see in the sparkling high-rises around the city centre’s converted warehouses, docks and former shipping canals,

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