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You can now apply to close your road for a Coronation street party in Manchester

Manchester City Council wants residents from all over the city to "dust off the bunting and join their neighbours to celebrate the historic weekend".

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant - 21st March 2023

Residents in Manchester can now apply to close off their roads for a street party to celebrate King Charles III‘s Coronation in a couple of months.

The Coronation of the new monarch is to officially be held on 6 May 2023.

King Charles III acceded to the throne on 8 September 2022, and on the day of his Coronation, will be 74 years old – making him the oldest person to be crowned monarch in British history.

The King will be coronated alongside his wife and the Queen Consort, Camilla, in a religious ceremony held at Westminster Abbey in London – which is the same place his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II‘s Coronation was held in 1953, as was her State Funeral in September of last year.

The ceremony will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and is expected to be a more “simmered down” event in comparison to that of the late Queen’s Coronation.

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You can now apply to close your road for a Coronation street party in Manchester / Credit: Rick Harrison (via Flickr)

Buckingham Palace said the Coronation will “reflect the monarch’s role today” and will “look towards the future, while being rooted in longstanding traditions and pageantry” – with more details about the ceremony and celebrations on a national scale expected to be announced “in due course”.

It was announced at the end of last week that big screens showing the Coronation ceremony are to be erected in dozens of towns and cities across the UK, with be Piccadilly Gardens right here in Manchester city centre, and Parliament Square in Oldham, being two of the chosen Greater Manchester locations where people will gather in their hundreds to mark the historic event.

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But, on a more personal scale locally, Manchester City Council has just announced that residents in the borough can apply to close their road off so they can throw a street party.

The Council says it want residents from all over the city to “dust off the bunting and join their neighbours to celebrate the historic weekend” / Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Council says it want residents from all over the city to “dust off the bunting and join their neighbours to celebrate the historic weekend” by hosting a traditional street party, and for those wishing to do so, if you make sure to submit an application by a certain deadline, then the road closure fee will be waived.

On top of this, Oldham Council has also announced that it applications are open for residents to apply for £100 grants to be put towards community street parties.

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100 grants are available being awarded on a first come, first served basis. 

Other Greater Manchester boroughs are also expected to announce celebration plans in the coming weeks, so keep your eyes peeled.

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The deadline to apply to close a road in the borough of Manchester is Friday 21 April, and you can find out more information and submit an application via the Manchester City Council website here.

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A ‘lost town’ in Yorkshire has been discovered 650 years after being ‘swallowed by the sea’

Clementine Hall Clementine Hall

Britain’s lost Atlantis is thought to have finally been discovered after falling into the North Sea 650 years ago.

Historians believed it lay at the bottom of the ocean around a mile off the Yorkshire coast.

Ravenser Odd is a town which sunk to the depths of the sea back in 1362, The Hoot Leeds reports.

Scientists have been in search of the town for years, and have likened its eventual discovery to Atlantis and Pompeii.

The sunken town, dubbed ‘Yorkshire’s Atlantis’, was once a popular stopping place for fishing boats and cargo ship that sat the mouth of the Humber Estuary.

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However, a new search closer to the shore has recently uncovered rocks and stonework beneath the water’s surface.

Specialist sonar equipment has been deployed in an attempt to discover the harbour walls of the lost town.

Professor Dan Parsons, a geoscientist at the University of Hull, is leading the search.

He told The Sun: “It’s fascinating, exciting, exhilarating. The exact location of this medieval town hasn’t ever been pinpointed.

“We now have the tools and the technology to go out there and locate it once and for all.”

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The search team hope to find the footprint of the town including its sea wall, harbour and foundations.

This will allow them to map it all out and create a 3D map which divers could then use to explore the site.

Scientists say they now have all the data needed and will be analysing the area under the sea in the coming weeks.

After all this, they should be able to confirm whether the findings are infact the lost Yorkshire town of Ravenser Odd.

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Hit Christmas market stall opens permanently at Piccadilly Gardens

Georgina Pellant Georgina Pellant

Crunch Korean Gansig has become a must-try foodie stall at the Manchester Christma Markets, now it’s pulled up at Picadilly Gardens permanently.

The hit Korean hot dog stall has wowed visitors over the past few years with its cheese, potato and meat-filled creations.

Deep-fried in a crispy waffle coating and then lightly rolled in sugar, these sausages on a stick come drizzled in sweet ketchup and mustard.

Incredibly moreish if we do say so ourselves, since first making their appearance at the 2021 Manchester Christmas Markets they’ve consistently been ranked one of the event’s best food traders.

Now, thanks to a new permanent stall popping up where it all began for the team, Manc foodies can enjoy their hot meaty and cheesy Korean goodies all year long.

Popular flavour choices include all-cheese, all-sausage and half-and-half versions, with a vegetarian-friendly cheese-filled version wrapped in a potato waffle coating, and halal-friendly options that are made using separate batter and fryers.

This really is a hot dog stand that caters to everyone. With owners having previously said they would work on a vegan hot dog once they got their own permanent stand, we don’t expect the plant-powered gang will be left waiting too much longer.

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Sharing the news to Instagram, the Crunch Korean Gansig team wrote: “Hey guys, we’ve got exciting news to share! We are launching a new market stall in the Piccadilly garden street food market from tomorrow.

“After two years of successful Christmas trading, we are ready to take on a new challenge, and love to serve our hotdogs to you guys again!

“So come on down to the market and say hi, we love to see you there! See you soon!”

Fans of the Korean hot dog stall have responded to the news with enthusiasm, flooding into the comments to share their excitement.

One person wrote: “So excited we will have to go!!”

Another person said: “Nooooo stop!!! I’m so happy I could cry”

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A third added: “SO EXCITED”

Officially open as of 1 June, find them at the Piccadilly Garden Street Food Market.

Featured image – The Manc Eats

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