'Shopping bruv?': The traders and look-outs on Counterfeit Street defying the national lockdown
direct to your inboxAll non-essential shops were ordered closed when the country went into the third national lockdown earlier this month.But, on the notorious backstreets of the city centre's northern outskirts, January sales are in full swing - for dealers in fakes and their accomplices. Here, Manchester Evening News reporter John Scheerhout describes the scene off Bury New Road on a Thursday afternoon. A posse of young men is huddled along a short but well-known stretch of Bury New Road in the Strangeways area, between town and Cheetham Hill.It's the place that's been branded 'Counterfeit Street' - where you can buy fake designer gear for a fraction of the price of the real thing.I park up, get out of my car and head towards the band of