Manchester United spent a club-record amount on new signings during the summer transfer window as Erik ten Hag was belatedly backed towards the end of August following the team's disastrous start to the season.
29.08.2022 - 23:41 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
There has been outrage after thousands of plastic single use cups were left strewn all over Gay Village following another busy night of Pride celebrations. The event, which has lasted four days over the bank holiday weekend, has seen crowds of people flock to the city to celebrate in style.
However, pictures taken from the early hours of Monday morning (August 29) show the scenes after much of the crowds had made their way back home. Thousands of plastic cups among other litter were left dumped on the floor, on Bloom Street, with Manchester councillors now calling on festival-goers to take their rubbish home as it wraps up for its final night.
Manchester Pride have also said that each morning, litter pickers among road sweepers are down at the site cleaning up from the night before. The recent pictures show the state of the area at 4am, before the major clean up operation begins.
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Jack Fifield, a city centre resident who had been out partying on Sunday, snapped the pictures and said: "I think they (pride) should switch to using reusable cups with a deposit scheme that works throughout the whole village so there's an incentive for people collect them up if they see them dropped and to return their own.
"Even if all that plastic was in a bin, it'd still be bad for the environment. It's disgusting. My concern is more the actual waste produced, not the cleanup. Seeing it all on the floor just shows how much there is."
Manchester's Gay Village has been hosting pride since Friday (August 26). The Manchester Evening News has been covering the scenes throughout the four-day long festival. Read more on all our coverage
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