Mancunians have been urged to come together to show their pride in the city following the chaos caused by rioters.
Bosses from the Manchester Arndale and Marketing Manchester have teamed up to launch the ‘I Love MCR’ campaign – encouraging people to stand up to the anti-social behaviour shown during the riots.
The campaign is already gaining momentum on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, with thousands of users changing their profile pictures to an ‘I LOVE MCR’ logo.
Chiefs said the logo – pictured – has become a symbol of the city’s resilience over the past two days.
Glen Barkworth, the Arndale’s general manager, said: "The manner in which staff, retailers and the people on the streets of Manchester have responded to the atrocities of this week is exemplary of the true Mancunian spirit. This campaign embodies that and galvanises people in a common good cause which will put Manchester back on the map for all the right reasons."
Andrew Stokes, chief executive of Marketing Manchester, added: "Mancunians are incredibly proud of their city. We have seen this in the extraordinary outpouring of emotion from the people of Greater Manchester.
"We saw it in their response to the mindless violence on Tuesday and we have seen it in the way they took to the streets to clear-up the mess that was made." There will be a ‘We Love MCR Day’ on August 26 – with Mancunians encouraged to celebrate their city. A Facebook page has been set up for people to suggest ways of showing love for the city.
≈ To join the campaign, visit www.facebook.com/weloveMCR
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Brilliant idea. "Oh Manchester is wonderful" come on City! Oh, and good luck to the reds as well.
As I'll be looking for employment after the next London Mayoral election, I'd like first dibs on the t-shirt franchise, please.
It's an ill wind, etc...
Big business is just as antisocial.
I LOVE SALFORD!!! & MANCHESTER!
A bit OTT I would say. I am Manchester born and bred but it isn't that good,decent I suppose but being a countrywide traveller I think there are two or three other Cities that a more attractive but its only an opinion.
In essence Manchester is overated!
One good thing that has come out of this is reassurance that we are doping pretty darn well as a country.
The only time people usually loot is in a Third World country where people loot food when there is famine and the second is after natural disaters like Hurricane Katrina and it is opportunist looting.
Our looting was done mainly by people in employment but who wanted flash new designer trainers, designer clothes, 48'' plasma tv's and high end hi-fi and co-ordinated themselves by Blackberry and other smartphone's. We can't be doing too badly can we?
I heart Manchester
the arndale centre bosses dont want to lose even more customers to the trafford centre but these cheap ploys wont change the reality. we need more jobs more investment and more opportunities. i take my hat off to the co-op which is investing so much money in developing manchester
I love Manchester born and bred here
I do love Manchester - been here since '95 Glasgow orinally hohum
I fully respect the people wishes to "Love Manchester" to me seem very America fifties in design. Maybe I am getting old and cynical, surely the clean up should be done immediately, by these rioters first as a community punishment. Not being a twitter fan might not help my objection either.
sorry Its a dump, 3rd world terraced houses in some of the run down areas, no go areas in some commnities.
Litter in longsight, crime in gorton, openshaw, salford
Binge drinking at night, encouraging teenagers to blow their money in student bars. Swearing parents with arms length out of control kids
Manchester needs a reality check, and to clamp down on the trouble causers becasue its been going on way before the looting.
Just another retail promotion. We can all see through it, they are just thinking about their tills as usual.
People who love Manchester are just as irrational as those who trashed it,may be more.
Good luck any way we need it.
I think it has all been said. I love Sydney,and San Francisco,not sure I could afford to live there as well as I can here.
In the army in the 50s we used to talk about London, and Manchester the rest were no where,and the area between Birmingham and the Southern counties was known as the swede country.
In the 80s my mate got talking to an American who was working at a special needs school in Birmingham. He felt he needed to get out at weekends so he went to,er Birmingham, Liverpool,Manchester,Sheffield,Manchester,Leeds, Manchester... Manchester... Not sure about the people changed hell of a lot,and that is not all.
The area I grew up in is long gone,the church, the schools,the grammar school,
dance halls,clubs,many of the pubs, the army camps I was stationed, the factory.Friends came and went with frightening rapidity.
Talk about roots! Nelson Mandela said it was nice to go back to his roots in the small village he came from.That has been impossible for too many in this country.
What a load of old rubbish, Next they will be asking you to Love congestion charge
and love extra council taxes......
MEN get real use the newspaper to show the real cause of the riots and show this goverment up for what they are really like.......
I also love my family, but do not go shouting it from the roof tops! You show love in your actions. If people really love our much improved city, why do they drop so much litter etc?
It is a very much improved place and better than some other places, I have lived, believe me ! I do not recognise some of the descriptions on here. Some leave and slag it off from afar. We need more pride in the place
My partner and I love Manchester. Per head, it probably has more theatres, galleries, music venues, museums, cinemas, cocktail bars, restaurants, and unique shops than anywhere else in the country; all at a fraction of the cost of London, where we live (though I'm from Liverpool and the wife-to-be from Strabane). I would even go as far as to say that Manchester's cultural draw is amongst the best of any non-capital city in Europe, which is a significant achievement.
In fact, so enamoured are we with your beautiful city that we're taking our honeymoon there in two week's time. Amongst, many other things, we'll be visiting the People's History Museum, Salford Working Class Library, Manchester Museum, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, the Whitworth Art Gallery, taking in a show at the Lowry, going to Belle Vue dogs, watching a film at the Cornerhouse, going for dinner at Sam's Chop House (which I believe was Lowry's favourite), and spending an evening at Matt and Phreds Jazz Club.
I think Mancunians should be really proud of the way their forward-looking and dynamic present has been melded with its proud industrial past; all without losing its fundamentally earthy, working-class culture.
As for those, who believe that Manchester is "overrated", I suggest you get out a little more and sample what your city has to offer.
The best thing about Manchester is that it is really easy to get out of it! Great countryside and coast are within easy travelling distance via the road/motorway network or by using bus/train. Also great cycling routes to whisk you either into the City or out of it. Diane the Explorer x