RESIDENTS are set to remember the victims of the Manchester Arena bomb attack at the bandstand in Pennington Hall Park this evening, Wednesday.

The event, Leigh Remembers Manchester, will be returning to the St Helens Road park where there will be a host of singers performing on the second anniversary of the atrocity, in which 22 people died at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017.

Around 200 people went to the inaugural event last year.

Organiser Paul Sargent will introduce the event at 7pm with an emotional speech and will lead a two minute silence.

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Some of the crowd at Leigh Remembers Manchester last year. Picture: Daniel O'Rourke Photography

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A message left at the park at the 2018 event. Picture: Daniel O'Rourke Photography

Leigh singer Zoe Unsworth, who sang at the park last year at the first memorial event, will be taking to the stage again.

Lowton teenager Jack Hillidge will also return to perform Ariana Grande’s One Last Time and No Tears Left To Cry before he carries out a reading, Manchester Survivor.

The iconic Tony Walsh poem This Is The Place will be read out by Samantha Lowe.

Kayley Thomas will be singing two tracks and children from Leigh Community Choir will be in full voice on the night as well.

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Zoe Unsworth singing at the memorial event last year. Picture: Daniel O'Rourke Photography

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Jack Hillidge performing at the event last year. Picture: Daniel O'Rourke Photography

DJ entertainment will be provided by Stuart Smith of Smooths Discos, who will be compering.

The artists will take to the stage together to sing Oasis' Don't Look Back In Anger before the event is brought to a close.

A memorial tree that Paul's employer, Sankey and Monks Sankey and Monks Funeral Directors bought for the park, with financial support from Wigan Council, will be in place.

A memorial stone is also set to be put in place at the park which was donated by Linda Seddon, daughter of Ken Bates from the former business, K Bates Master Masons. 

The engravings were completed by Sankey and Monks.

Caffeina Cafe will be open too.