Five Manchester news headlines you might have missed this week: 9-13 January
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Welcome to this week’s episode of our weekly feature, where ManchesterWorld editor Jenny Simpson and video journalist Emma Higgins discuss some of the stories which have stood out over the last week - from the spike in flu cases in Greater Manchester, to a life-size cardboard cut-out of Taylor Swift which has made local news, and of course the Manchester derby coming up this weekend.
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