The global fashion giant will take over the old BHS store on Market Street

Global fashion giant Uniqlo is to return to Manchester, fourteen years after pulling out of the city.

The trendy Japanese brand - fronted by the likes of Roger Federer, Susan Sarandon and Pharrell Williams - closed two Manchester stores in 2004, and thirteen more across the UK, as a fall in profits forced it to retrench back to London.

However, documents lodged with the council planning office reveal that Uniqlo - which has expanded to over 1300 stores in fifteen countries - plans to stage a comeback and has signed a lease for a prime spot on Market Street, vacated by BHS in 2016.