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'How much to Fallowfield mate?': The mad scramble to get home after Parklife

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It's just after 11pm on Saturday and the first day of Parklife is coming to an end. Outside The Woodthorpe pub on Bury Old Road a lad in John Lennon glasses and shorts approaches a copper. "You want to walk to Salford?," the officer asks. "It’s quite a long way," he adds with typical Mancunian understatement.

The mad scramble to get home after Parklife is almost as much as much of a tradition as the bucket hats and bikini tops favoured by festival-goers.

And this year is no different. With Ed Sheeran at The Etihad, Alicia Keys at the AO Arena and The Killers over at at Emirates Old Trafford, it's been a very, very busy day.

More than 80,000 party-goers poured through the gates at Heaton Park on Saturday morning. After a day of revelry, they've all got to - somehow - get home. READ MORE: Parklife 2022 revellers refuse to let a bit of rain put a dampener on the party There are reports of people stuck in queues at pick-up points for nearly an hour by midnight.

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