The first HN comment is a little too harsh a critique. I am personally drooling over the UI design of the Manchester municipality site. 

I think it is pretty pretty neat! 

Martin.

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Adam Nelson <adam@varud.com> wrote:

Apropos of the thread around the Met department's website, check out Manchester city's site:

http://www.manchester.gov.uk/

And relevant hacker news comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5643532

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