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Here's the Mancunian Way for today:

Hello

Hope you all had a lovely weekend considering the weather was pretty nice for once.

Eurovision fever was in full force on Saturday night, with Sweden getting a seventh win at the contest. While the UK didn't fare so well, it was a brilliant show from Liverpool and the atmosphere looked amazing on screen.

The contest was also screened at numerous parties and venues across Manchester, with thousands flocking to Piccadilly Gardens to soak up the 'Eurovibes'. We'll look at how the party went down here further on in today's Mancunian Way.

We'll also be looking car park woes, a 'model' Lord Mayor, a controversial appeal and a bar looking to find the next big star.

We're going to start with a look at the temporary homelessness situation in Manchester, following the release of new government data that found that 1,106 single females with dependent children were living in temporary housing in Manchester between October and December last year. But why?

"I looked at the story and thought 'oh my god, this could be why my daughter is getting a cough'," one woman told Sophie Halle-Richards about the moment she read the tragic story of two-year-old Awaab Ishak, who died from a respiratory condition in December 2020 after being exposed to mould and damp in his housing association flat.

"I've been in temporary accommodation for three years now and I've had nothing but problems with it. I've got black mould all round my windows, on my blinds, in the kitchen, of the tiles, in the bathroom.

"I'm