The 'busiest and best' ever - or a loss of thousands? Manchester Christmas Market traders have had very different experiences this year

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"We can't wait to get home, sit in our pyjamas and do nothing for a week," laughs Eddie Osman as the final day of trading on Manchester Christmas Markets dawns.

Mancunian Eddie is the boss of Porky Pig, undoubtedly the market's busiest food stall yet again this year, and for him at least it has been a bumper year selling 1,000 Yorkshire pudding wraps a day. "It's been the busiest and best year ever for us," he says. READ MORE: "It's not a package it's an insult" - Hospitality reacts to Rishi Sunak announcement "The Monday just gone was our busiest Monday on record. "I think there was so much uncertainty about what Boris Johnson was going to say, whether he was going to bring in a lockdown before Christmas, that everyone wanted to get