Pressure is mounting on Manchester City Council over a planned performance by controversial Belfast rap trio Kneecap at Wythenshawe Park.

The Irish band are due to support Fontaines DC on Friday night in a line-up which also features Mercury Prize-winners English Teacher.

But it's now emerged a Jewish group has contacted the council to formally request the cancellation of the band's set.

The Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester and Region said in a statement it had 'deep reservations' over the performance, adding: "By hosting a band who has repeatedly sought to engage in provocative and dangerous behaviour, the council can be under no illusion about what it is enabling."

The council, however, said it was told by the town hall that the concert 'will be proceeding as plann

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