If this is Manchester’s Christmas tree, and I kind of hope it is, then it’s sure to boil some blood.

Every year many pensioners fill the letters page of the Manchester Evening News with rage at the city’s failure to order the cull of a good sized pine (not that there’s anything wrong with replacing a mature tree with a more CO2 hungry sapling). To be fair, this one does incorporate real trees in pots about its base, so there’s something for everyone. I suspect it’s educational too as there’s a lot of writing on it.

If combined with a cold snap, I feel sure this beauty will a send a few old dossers to an ever so slightly early grave.

Merry Christmas everyone!
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