Nice one. Where in Manchester are you? I'm in Denton. It'd be good to see it in the flesh again when you've polished it up etc. I bought it in the late 90's from a guy who was moving to Australia. Those LGN MCR stickers were from my old t-shirt company (now sadly defunct).
It's been a great bike over the years, I even offered to buy it back off my mate when I was looking around for a MTB again. He didn't want to sell so I ended up buying a Zaskar off ebay (then 3 more!).