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BBC News
25-05-2025
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- BBC News
Manchester Flower Show's spectacular global sights
Floral designs celebrating cities around the world have sprung up across Manchester city centre for the Bank Holiday Manchester Flower Festival has added a riot of colour to the city's streets with pink elephants and an Eiffel Tower covered in theme to this year's free festival is Manchester and Other Great Cities Around the well as the home city, it celebrates Mumbai, Paris, Marrakesh, Amsterdam and New York. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Manchester on Sounds and follow BBC Manchester on Facebook, X, and Instagram. You can also send story ideas via Whatsapp to 0808 100 2230.
BBC News
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
All you need to know about Manchester Flower Festival
The streets of Manchester have been transformed with beautiful blooms and inspiring floral installations by talented florists and gardeners for the start of a three-day celebration of themes of the 2025 Manchester Flower Festival which begins on Friday, include the city's industrial roots as well as its music culture. Described by organisers Manchester City Centre Business Improvement District (BID) as a free "petal powered" event, it was arranged on behalf of city centre is everything else you need to know about it from Gary Williams, head of events at Manchester City Centre BID. When is it and where? The festival begins on Friday and will take place over the bank holiday weekend until Monday. Nine, professionally designed displays can be found across a trail that runs through the city centre at the following locations:Manchester Arndale shopping centreThe PrintworksTwo on New Cathedral StreetExchange StreetSt Ann's SquareThe Royal Exchange and Two on King StreetThere will also be other garden and green displays throughout the city's shopping streets too. When and why was it set up? The festival, billed as "green takeover of the city", evolved as a successor event to the Dig the City summer garden festival, organisers have started in 2021, welcoming people back into the city after the Covid lockdown, with colourful floral creations from some of Manchester's most talented florists and gardeners. What is the theme? This year's theme is Manchester's musical and industrial heritage as well as celebrations of other great cities around the floral trail features displays on themes including the vibrant markets of Marrakech, city life in New York, Paris and Mumbai, and the tulip fields of Amsterdam. What are the highlights? Mr Williams said the trail is the "backbone of the event" along with the floral marquee on New Cathedral Street, which features a collection of displays from Manchester displays can be found across the city at sites from Afflecks (formerly Afflecks Palace) to Sadler's Yard, which has a garden installation inspired by the nearby hot air balloon ascent of James Sadler in UK in collaboration with not-for-profit landscape design studio Constructing Minds with Nature has created a shaded garden space to deliver a message about sun safety, skin protection, and melanoma by the charm of Parisian café street scenes, the garden will pay homage to the year 1804 when melanoma was first identified by René Laennec. Is it family friendly? Organisers have said there is plenty for children to do from free child-friendly workshops such as craft wildflower seed bombs and building insect hotel.A bee hunt will also be held Exchange Square along with a bee procession, where families dressed as bees can follow the much-loved Queen Bee figure around St Ann's Square on Sunday. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Manchester on Sounds and follow BBC Manchester on Facebook, X, and Instagram and watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer.
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Lake District's ‘best ice cream shop' is in a tiny village where cars are banned
Walking along the winding streets of Hawkshead is like stepping back in time. Not just because of the village's historic white-washed cottages or cobblestone alleys. No, it's because you won't see a single car driving around. Cars are in fact banned from the centre of the village, frequently named one of the prettiest in the Lake District. The ban helps to preserve the village's character and adds to its old fashioned charm - of which it has by the bucketload. READ MORE: Manchester Marathon 2025: Full list of road closures with some shut for 40 hours READ MORE: Manchester Flower Festival to make triumphant return as full floral trail with new theme revealed Located just north of Esthwaite Water and west of Winderemere, Hawkshead is a tiny village nestled among the rolling green fells. Around every corner of its rabbit-warren of streets is a cosy pub or tiny tea room. It's even got an outpost of the famous Grasmere Gingerbread Shop, where you can sample the iconic treat. But there's one reason in particular visitors head to this tiny village - it's home to an ice cream shop that's been described as 'the best in the Lake District' which recently made the headlines for a rather interesting flavour. A regular feature in Tik Tok videos of Hawkshead, The Little Ice Cream Shop has an interesting back story. It was set up by Amy McPherson in 2016 when she was just 18 with the aim of making enough money to move to London and train to be an actor. It was an instant hit thanks to its generous portions and excellent selection of flavours (it rotates over 90 different flavours) and her parents even opened a second shop in Windermere. Last year The Little Ice Cream Shop went viral for producing an 'ultra-creamy' flavour called 'Jacob Elordi's Bathwater', inspired by the infamous scene from the film 2023 Saltburn. But visitors to the shop today can expect more appealing flavours like Kendal Mintcake, Salted Caramel, Lemon Meringe, Nutella and Black Cherry. Reviewers have hailed the ice cream as 'the best' in the Lake District. One Tripadvisor reviewer reads: 'The best place for ice cream. This is such a great place to go after a hike or just a treat. "We have been many times and this is the best ice-cream in the ice cream is always so delicious and well worth the price( it's a great price to what you get in London) and you get a massive scoop.' Another one wrote: 'In today's world portions are small, and prices are big. This, however, is not the case for this Ice Cream parlour. The portions are HUGE !! The prices are sensible.' A third said: 'Absolutely the best ice cream in The Lake District hands down. Friendly staff and a delicious array of flavours. For the price you get a massive scoop so well worth trying. We will keep on coming back for more. It's delicious.' Parking is available at Hawkshead Car Park, Main Street, Hawkshead, Cumbria, LA22 0NT. Charges start from £4 for a two-hour minimum stay. For more of the latest What's On news, click here.
