Weekend Round-Up: Developments and the FA Cup

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Here is a rundown of some of the best stories on the Manchester World website over the weekend, featuring some exciting development news and some Rich Fay intel on BOTH Manchester City and Manchester United.

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00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World, my name is Theo Huston-Betts and this is your

00:03weekend roundup where I'll go through some of the stories from the Manchester World website

00:06that went out over the weekend and are deserving of a little bit of extra attention.

00:10We're going to start with the positive news about the revamp of Eccles Town Centre, with

00:14work now starting to demolish the shopping centre there.

00:18The centre is made up of shopping units, a car park and a market hall and was bought

00:21by Salford Council back in December 2022 with the idea of demolishing it and that being

00:26the first stage of regeneration of the area.

00:29The shops near the centre are unaffected and the next stage will be the exciting reveal

00:32of the transformation plans.

00:34More on development and the University of Manchester is creating space for over 1,000

00:38new students with new accommodations in Fallowfield, it will mean building 3,300 new student bedrooms

00:44across 23 apartment blocks that will replace the 2,300 that are there already.

00:49Demolitions of the Owens Park accommodation began last year, marking the end of its 60

00:53year lifespan, which saw icons such as the Chemical Brothers, Rick Mayall and Benedict

00:57Cumberbatch live there.

00:59The final plans for the accommodation were submitted to the council on March 17th and

01:03significant developments are expected over the coming months and years.

01:06On to sport and Rich Fay had a full plate this weekend with City's win over Bournemouth,

01:10they fell behind initially but came back to win largely through the impact of Nico O'Reilly.

01:15Rich has a great round-up piece on the game and young O'Reilly's impact, Guardiola was

01:19so impressed with the full-back slash midfielder that it's confirmed already that the youngster

01:23will feature in the semi-final against Forest next month.

01:27Rich also has some Manchester United pieces, some building up to their match against Forest

01:31soon and one exciting piece about Hugo Ekiteke, the French striker who's impressed so much

01:35for Eintracht Frankfurt this year and has been linked with a move to Old Trafford.

01:39That's all for now though, follow Manchester World for more and we'll see you again soon.

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