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The city centre was far quieter than usual

Nicole Berry, 25, threw the vodka bottles in an attempt to help her boyfriend during a late-night brawl in Manchester after they had spent the evening celebrating her new job as a social worker.

Sarah Townsend The 158-bedroom property on Princess Street designed by architect Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios opens to the public today as the operator’s fifth in Manchester. The 16-storey hotel is located within developers Bruntwood SciTech and Vita Group’s £750m Circle Square mixed-use scheme off Oxford Road. The hybrid building comprises a 1,014-space car park across the first nine floors, and the hotel is located on floors nine to 15, taking Premier Inn’s Manchester portfolio to more than 960 rooms. Construction of the hotel main contractor Russell WHBO completed in December. Cli...

Dan Whelan The former managing director has left the property company he co-founded with Alan Murphy in 2003 after 18 years at the helm.  According to Nick Payne’s Linkedin profile, he left developer Nikal in January and is now listed as an “unattached” real estate specialist.  The reasons behind his departure are not yet known. Both Payne and Nikal have been contacted for comment but had yet to provide statements about the news at the time of publication.   Payne has also stepped down as a member of Blackpool’s Town Deal board, a committee set up to guide the development of Govern...

Sarah Townsend Jim Ramsbottom, the regeneration expert who transformed the canal-strewn pocket of Manchester into the mixed-use district it is today, has died at the age of 81. Ramsbottom’s development company Castlefield Estates rose to prominence in the 1990s as it introduced urban renewal to the historic industrial heartland of Castlefield Basin, close to Deansgate Locks on the edge of the city centre. The company is now run by his daughter-in-law Sarah Ramsbottom and his son James owns the Manchester-based restaurant, bar and leisure company Elle R Leisure, which counts Dukes 92 in Cas...