Down by the lakeside in Heaton Park is a cafe very well used by dog walkers, parents with children, cyclists, joggers and many more : the outside seating area is always busy.
Rumour is that soon the cafe will close - no doubt in order to save money but this will be a great shame - this cafe provides a meeting point for a great many people and provides for a real social and community need.
I read that many of the parks in Manchester are to become Nature Reserves - in other words they will be left to go wild and have less money spent on them.
What a cynic I am ...