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'I'm after some socks': The simple plea from a rough sleeper braving the coldest night of 2023 on Manchester's streets

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It's an unusual day in March. Mancunians are used to the weather gods delivering plagues of unseasonal cold, but today (March 9) is really taking the biscuit.

There's snow falling - sort of. It's not fluffy flakes this time, it's sticky sleet which coats the city's pavements and melts just as quickly.

Everything seems to be running relatively smoothly, too - trains are working as well as they normally do in the north, buses are grumbling their way up Portland Street, and taxis are blaring horns across Deansgate.

But there are signs that the freeze is biting. Old ladies are shuffling past high street stores, but it's too cold to spare a minute and stop for some window-shopping. READ MORE: Driver 'abandons car' after getting stuck in Deansgate traffic in three-hour nightmare Men in sharp suits and big coats are hustling around meeting to meeting, trying in vain to get their numb fingers to manipulate their phone keyboards.

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