Well Justin Moorhouse was in Phoenix Nights as Young Kenny. Mike Toolan is another DJ on Key 103.
The Cow Auction was when they sold off all the cows from the Manchester Cow Parade, cowparade.com/manchester1 I think.
Celebrity spotting, not actual stalking. Gotta catch 'em all! Originally a popular feature of my site popex.com, so mostly from the early '00s. 99% written by valued punters. Hopefully now with some bonus location content that was lost for a while.