Manchester City Council has recruited a Game of Thrones lookalike as part of a campaign to increase vaccine take-up for winter.
Passers-by may have done a double-take if they saw actor James Martin - dressed up as the King of the North Jon Snow - waiting patiently for his Covid jab at a walk-in vaccination clinic at Manchester town hall.
But it wasn't entirely a fiction - actor James took the opportunity to have his jab while dressing up to promote the council's drive to improve vaccine take-up. READ MORE: Electrical engineer killed in horror smash after vehicle came off road and hit men who were working After his jab, James said: "I wanted to have the vaccine, so this was the perfect time and a case of life imitating art!
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