The pride of Manchester's red carpet was a star studded event
Held in one of the city’s iconic buildings, the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel on Oxford Street, stars and unsung heroes mingled as the best of the second city were celebrated. The ceremony brought together football stars, soap icons, and TV royalty — all in the name of Manchester’s best.
The pensioner has been playing to raise money for hospitals, hospices, and charities in Cheshire for 31 years. In all, he has raised an astonishing £420,000. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house when Figen Murray took to the stage. Explaining why she decided to forgive the Manchester Arena bomber who killed her son Martyn Hett, she said: “It was quite an easy decision.
There was also time for reflection, when Mines Advisory Group Rae McGrath founder took to the stage. He explained why he started his brave organisation: “In the 1980s, we were doing agricultural work and we already recognised mines were a problem. “That for me was awakening that mines were a huge problem in Afghanistan, and if they are a problem there, they must have been a problem wherever they had been used.”
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