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Independent news website SalfordOnline.com to close

It is with great sadness that I’m announcing SalfordOnline.com is to close down. When we started the news website 10 years ago we could only dream that it would...

Swinton gymnast Will, 9, gets acrobatic for St Ann’s Hospice

Gymnast Will Barnes leapt into action on a camping holiday in Wales by putting his acrobatic skills to good use for charity. Nine-year-old Will, from Swinton,...

Gallery: Flag to fly over Salford for historic Swinton Lions 150th anniversary

Salford City Council headquarters will fly the Swinton Lions flag this week to mark the exact date 150 years ago the club was founded. On Thursday 20 October at 10am in...

Pictures of the Week – Sunset snapper planning Eccles exhibition

Gorgeous shots of the setting sun over the Manchester Ship Canal are SalfordOnline.com’s pictures of the week. The wide rippling waters are offset by stunning...

With 11,000+ carers on rise MP hosts free Walkden breakfast this Friday

On Friday 7th October Barbara Keeley, MP for Worsley and Eccles South, will be holding a Britain’s Best Breakfast event at the Walkden Gateway to raise money for the...

Salford community raises thousands for funeral of murdered Wesley Lennon

Kind-hearted locals have raised thousands of pounds to help pay for the funeral of a 26-year-old man murdered in the street in Salford. Father-of-two Wesley Lennon was...

Pictured: Langworthy hosts fab Salford history festival this weekend

Langworthy Cornerstone is the place to be for sports, community and history lovers in Salford this weekend with a two-day event jam-packed full of fun. The festival runs...

Missing Alan Shone: Volunteer search party plead for help this weekend

A group of volunteers are to scour the local area in Irlam where a 61-year-old dementia sufferer vanished last month. Good Samaritans from across the community will meet...

Gallery: Historic images of Salford’s Peel Park as more detail on £2.5m upgrade revealed

Talking flowers, toy diggers and rope swings will give Peel Park a 21st century look when it reopens next summer, say Salford City Council. Now historic images of the...

Family firm Creamline milks it for St Ann’s Hospice

A family-owned dairy firm has donated a day’s worth of milk to St Ann’s Hospice Creamline Dairies gave 72 pints to the hospice to celebrate its Time for Tea...