Dear Millers — today’s story is about drinking, eating and a new venue just behind Piccadilly Station which has become a hot property in the past few months. We sent Dani and Mollie to go for a night out at Escape to Freight Island, and Dani has written a nice piece about what they saw, and why “food halls” are all the rage in Manchester.

Before that, we have our mini-briefing, plus a little extract from Friedrich Engels about swine on our streets.