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Yesterday we heard of plans to end the scourge of wobbly paving stones. Today hostilities have been cranked up a notch, with a war on chewing gum declared.
After the Christmas shopping rush, it emerged the pavements on Market Street are covered in grubby old ‘chuddy’. City centre spokesperson Pat Karney said the street was in the ‘worst state’ he’d ever seen. "Why they don't put it in the bin, I've no idea,” Coun Karney told the Manchester Evening News. “They're letting Manchester down, they're letting themselves down. "Why would you make our city centre such a scruffy place where you have to walk in other people's chewing gum?
There must be about six or seven bins on Market Street." Last winter, Peter Street was labelled 'Chewing Gum Street', with the pavement outside some of Manchester's most popular bars covered in the stuff - despite the best efforts of those businesses in trying to remove it.