Rihanna shows off her personal style while stepping out in New York City after a late night meeting.
25.07.2022 - 10:25 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Manchester could be 'smoke-free' in certain areas by the end of this year as the city looks to follow in the footsteps of Melbourne and New York.
People smoking in selected city centre outdoor spaces would be asked to stub out their cigarette or leave the smoke-free zone as part of a new pilot project. Currently there are no plans to bring in by-laws or fines for people caught smoking, with an 'education-first' approach, offering smokers support to quit, favoured.
Piccadilly Gardens, St Peter's Square and the area around Manchester Town Hall are all being considered as potential smoke-free outdoor public spaces. Banning smoking around the Etihad Stadium has also been suggested - so what do people think of the plan? Manchester Evening News reporter Louisa Gregson headed to these busy areas to find out.
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Rez Ali, 30, is an office worker who lives in New Islington and is taking a break in St Peter's Square. He says of the impending ban: "It does not bother me because I am not a heavy smoker but I think it takes away people's freedom.
"It is a public place. I can see why it was banned inside as second-hand smoking is quite dangerous but in open places I don't think it is harmful."
Smoker Nouf Amar, 40, is from Saudi Arabia and studying in Manchester. The mother-of-one believes a ban should be imposed in Piccadilly Gardens - but there should be a designated area for smokers nearby.
She says: "Children are here, when I am smoking I go away from children - because it is a bad habit. I think they should ban smoking here, but make sure there is an area smokers can go to."
Patrik Stransky, 30, lives in Wythenshawe and works in hygiene
Rihanna shows off her personal style while stepping out in New York City after a late night meeting.
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Morrissey ignored him on several occasions when the former The Smiths singer was linked to matters concerning The Libertines and the New York Dolls.Powell, who drums in The Libertines and also played for the New York Dolls at the 2004 Meltdown festival that Morrissey curated, told NME in a new interview that he found the singer to be “rude” towards him.After saying that the only other act he could remember at Meltdown was The Smiths man himself (and calling him a “wazzock!” in the process), Powell claimed that Morrissey never apologised to him for blanking him at the festival.“No,” Powell said when NME asked if Morrissey had ever said sorry about the alleged lack of interaction, which the drummer had spoken about previously.“He never spoke to me for the two days we did Meltdown. He came up onstage, spoke to everybody in the New York Dolls, and completely blanked me.
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Cara Delevingne and Jimmy Fallon are forever connected… by real estate. The 29-year-old model-actress, who celebrates her 30th birthday next month, stopped by on Wednesday and opened up about buying Fallon's former New York City apartment. «I live in your house. I sleep in your bed, is that weird?» she joked. Fallon was thrilled to hand over the keys to his beloved pad — in a reported $10.8 million deal — where he says he's lived since his 20s. «When you sell an apartment, you're like, 'I hope someone cool buys it and someone creative buys it and someone loving buys it,' and you check all those boxes,» the 47-year-old comedian gushed of Delevingne, who said she hadn't changed a thing about the property's aesthetic. «It's one of the most incredible places I've ever lived in, obviously, but I just can't believe it.
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