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Salford pupils keep active thanks to revolutionary new app

Over 1200 pupils in Salford are benefitting from an innovative new health and fitness app being trialled across the city. The EdStart Health and Fitness Programme has...

100 years ago in Salford: AWOL soldiers caught hiding in Pendlebury coal shelter

An unusual court case, the first of its kind in the district, was heard in September 1915 when a collier named William Taylor appeared charged with unlawfully concealing...

Car smoking ban comes into force

From today, Monday 1 October 2015 it is illegal to smoke in a vehicle with anyone under 18 in it. Both the driver and the smoker can be fined £50. The change in the law...

Child porn suspect on the run

Police are appealing for help in tracing a man who is wanted on a crown court warrant after absconding whilst on trial. 53-year-old Julian Myerscough, who is from the...

Giant 400,000sq ft warehouse build for Logistics North

M&G Real Estate is to fund the construction of 400,000 sq ft of distribution space at Logistics North in Bolton. The two logistics buildings, 225,031 sq ft and...

Pier Jam stabbings: Brothers from Salford charged with attempted murder and GBH

Two brothers from the Brookhouse estate in Eccles, Salford are charged with attempted murder after a man was stabbed multiple times at a music festival in Blackpool....