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Harry Styles mural unveiled at Cheshire railway station to welcome fans to his hometown

Mural for a railway station.

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant - 6th March 2025

A mural of Harry Styles has been unveiled at a railway station in Cheshire to welcome fans to his hometown.

The pop megastar and former One Direction member, turned actor, grew up in the picturesque Cheshire village of Holmes Chapel, and in recent years – most notably around the time of the 2022 Manchester dates on his world tour, Love On Tour – the village has become a popular place for visiting fans keen to see where Styles spent his younger years.

The gates of his high school and the bakery where he used to work are just a couple of the locations that Harry Styles fans like to visit when they’re around his neck of the woods.

Holmes Chapel has very much lent into the novelty of being a tourist hotspot, and nothing proves that more than the fact the village’s railway station has now unveiled a brand-new mural featuring the singer-songwriter in all his glory.

The new artwork depicts the 31-year-old donning one of his many famous flamboyant outfits – a yellow tweed-style blazer, with a pink feather bower around his neck.

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The stunning tribute was created by local artists Eamonn Murphy and Victoria Holland, and is one of several to be installed at the station that celebrate the village and the surrounding areas, with Styles featuring alongside local landmarks such as St Luke’s Church and Hermitage Bridge.

“Artwork that pays tribute to a local area, or in this case, a very famous former resident, is always a welcome addition to a station,” commented Craig Harrop, who is the regional director for Northern.

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Harry Styles mural
Image shows artwork at Holmes Chapel station / Credit: Northern

“This new artwork adds to the station’s personality and charm and will no doubt prove very popular with Harry Styles fans visiting the village.”

Peter Whiers, who is the chair of Holmes Chapel Partnership that led on the creation of the artwork, added: “Eamonn and Victoria are both incredibly talented local artists and we are delighted with how they have brought our vision for this mural to life.

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“This new installation not only honours Harry Styles and the impact his global success has had on our community but also enhances the station and creates a colourful new welcome to the village.”

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Don’t worry if you didn’t get Oasis tickets, one of the UK’s best tribute bands is coming to Manchester

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Didn’t get tickets for Oasis? How about we all just go see one of the best tribute acts in Manchester instead? Sounds like a plan, let’s do it.

Yes, unfortunately, one of the biggest downsides to one of the greatest bands of all time returning for a worldwide reunion tour is that, rather ironically, pretty much everyone on the entire planet wants a ticket.

The reality is that many of us Mancs and Oasis fans all over the country and the globe will sadly be missing out on the comeback gigs this summer. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean we have to miss out on listening to the same iconic tunes as everyone else in a room full of other Britpop lovers.

After all, as we all know, seeing bands live is great and all that – but half the fun is jumping up and down like a loon with hundreds of other people, and these lads can certainly sort that.

That’s right, hailed as the UK’s ‘best and most authentic Oasis tribute band’, Oasi-is will be coming to the legendary Manchester Academy complex to give us locals the next best thing.

Not only that but the highly celebrated impersonators and soundalikes will be playing the 950-cap venue on Friday, 11 July, i.e. the same night as Oasis‘ first of five hometown Manchester shows at Heaton Park.

To make things even more interesting and appealing to the die-hards who can’t be there for the real deal this summer, Oasi-is are the only tribute act to the 90s rock and roll stars that can boast using official Oasis equipment in their sets.

Gig-goers will also be treated to authentic visuals and footage projected on the big screens behind them, and dedicated tour DJs to drum up an unrivalled recreation of their heroes, as well as shades and ‘Wellend’ haircuts so convincing you’ll soon forget it’s not the actual Gallagher brothers.

Aiming to mirror the ‘Live ’25’ tour shows as best as possible, you can expect all the classics and even a few curveballs from Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants and Dig Out Your Soul. Who knows? All we can guarantee is that we’d rather be here than just sit enviously watching clips of it at home come July.

We’re not forcing that familiar ‘no-Glasto fever’ on ourselves, we’re just going to make the best of it, thanks to Oas-is.

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As if it wasn’t already a pretty great value-for-money gig, with general admission priced at just £20 (plus booking fees), you’ll also get to see an equally brilliant tribute band as well as a local legend for the support slots.

Warming up the crowd will be the world’s premier Arctic Monkeys tribute act, Arctic Numpties, along with Manc DJ legend, Dave Sweetmore. That’ll do just fine.

Tickets are already on sale and it won’t surprise you to learn that, the genuine article or not, it’s selling really well because let’s be honest: we just want to spend the night singing our hearts out whilst jumping up and down to the hits with all our mates.

You can grab your tickets for the Oas-is’ ‘Same Hits. Same Night. Same City’ tribute show at Manchester Academy 2 HERE and, in the meantime, you might want to check out these fellow Oasis obsessives over in Japan too…

We found a Japanese Oasis tribute band on TikTok — and they’re actually mint

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Manchester has been named one of the UK’s top car theft ‘hotspots’

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Manchester has unfortunately been named one of the UK’s top car theft ‘hotspots’, according to a new analysis.

In recent months, Greater Manchester has been earning itself some rather impressive new titles, with wins across areas such as property prices, arts and culture, and so much more… but when you win some, it seems like you also lose some.

That’s because a data analysis of car theft statistics across the UK in 2024 has sadly seen Manchester named in the top 10 ‘hotspots’.

Although motor thefts were found to have decreased by 6% in the previous year, there was still a whopping 61,343 cars reported stolen to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) in 2024, which marked the third-highest annual total in the past decade.

The number of car thefts in 2024 was actually more than twice the number recorded in 2015.

Manchester has been named one of the UK’s top car theft ‘hotspots’ / Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Analysis of the data from This is Money and MailOnline, as shared by the RAC, highlighted that East London was the worst affected area in the UK, but Manchester wasn’t too far behind.

Manchester took the third spot on the top 10 list, with a total of 912 cars reported stolen in 2024 alone, while some of the other northern cities on the ranking include Leeds and Sheffield.

It comes as no surprise, however, that at the top of the list is the capital of London, with a shockingly-high 8,145 cars stolen last year.

Top 10 UK car theft ‘hotspots’ 2024

  1. London – 8,145
  2. Birmingham – 3,220
  3. Manchester – 912
  4. Leeds – 901
  5. Sheffield – 899
  6. Coventry – 862
  7. Wolverhampton – 616
  8. Leicester – 533
  9. Walsall – 521
  10. Bristol – 506

According to the analysis, there are several ways that criminals are choosing to steal cars nationwide, with one of the most popular being key cloning, where a thief creates a copy of a car’s key fob or key to gain access to the vehicle.

This technique is particularly common with modern cars that use keyless entry and push-to-start systems, which communicate with the car through radio signals.

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Two other common car theft techniques include relay attacks, and key signal blocking.

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