At Salford Quays a new city has risen in glass, steel and burnished metal out of the docks on the Manchester Ship Canal.

Here, in what was the Port of Manchester, once the fourth biggest in the country, are gleaming museums of the modern age, seering stretches of sun-drenched water and the shining towers of Media City, a 21st century empire for the Fourth Estate.

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