Manchester council is still owed nearly £95,000 by the owner of the Piccadilly big wheel, the M.E.N. can reveal – three months after it was finally taken down.

An M.E.N. Freedom of Information request has found owner Wheels Entertainments is yet to pay for January’s New Year’s Eve fireworks.

It has also failed to cough up for work around the nearby fountain, which the council says the firm agreed to pay for last year.

Reported by the Manchester Evening News. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.