Speculation about a Stone Roses album and tour has hit fever pitch as posters of their iconic lemon logo popped up in shop windows in Manchester.

Meanwhile, rock stars including Tim Burgess and Liam Fray have tweeted lemons too.

Every reference has 16 lemons, suggesting a tour could take place in 2016.

The band, which reformed in 2012 for three huge shows at Heaton Park and a world tour, have yet to release their much anticipated third album.

Promoters SJM would not confirm that an announcement about the band was on the cards but the term 'stoneroses' was trending on Twitter by 10am as excited fans braced themselves for news.

Posters were seen at the Close barber's shop, on Greater Ancoats Street, as well as the Vinyl Revival record store, on Hilton Street.

Several shops around the Northern Quarter filled their windows with the posters - and one shop keeper told us that he was asked to put them up on Monday morning but had been "sworn to secrecy about an announcement due in the next 24 hours".

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Even Courteeners frontman Liam Fray got in on the act, tweeting a row of lemons.