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Brian Everall

Editor at large, SalfordOnline.com

Salford asks residents – have you got the bottle

Salford residents are being asked if they’ve got the bottle to recycle more. If everyone in the city recycled just 22 extra plastic bottles, 17 extra glass jars and 30...

Chocolate’s the prize as Salford City Academy stages Easter Egg Hunt

The search was on yesterday 1st April when local primary school pupils took part in Salford City Academy’s first ever Easter Egg hunt. Academy prefects and student...

Appeal as 78-year-old pedestrian Joseph Hurst killed in Bolton

Police are appealing for witnesses after an elderly man was killed in a trafffic accident in Bolton. At around 8pm on Wednesday 1 April a Skoda Fabia was driving along...

Man arrested after Manchester to Stockport train sexual touching appeal

A 28-year-old man, from Stockport, has been arrested following a British Transport Police appeal into a report of sexual touching on a train between Manchester...

Driver injured as van topples on M602 at Eccles

A driver was lucky to escape serious injury when his van overturned on its side this morning, Wednesday 1 April, on the M602. Police, fire crews from Eccles and Leigh...

Little Hulton brave monsoon to beat Bolton

Picture by John McGibbon Photography Little Hulton were desperate for a win as Bolton Mets visited in this latest league match, with the Reds stuck on zero points so far...

Salford City College Media students film Tinchy Stryder

A group of Media students from Salford City College’s Walkden Sixth Form Centre and FutureSkills worked together last week to film an exclusive interview with rap star...

More delays for drivers as Fitzwarren Street closed for three weeks

Urban Vision are to close Fitwarren Street on Salford precinct to install a new pedestrian crossing. Highways workers are expected to be on site for approximately three...

Smoker attacks and threatens to rape man on bus

A man was threatened with rape and then viciously assaulted on a bus simply for asking his attacker to stop smoking. The 34-year-old man was threatened and attacked on...

Next of kin appeal after death of Arthur Cottam, 77

Police are appealing for help in tracing the relatives of a man from Salford. Arthur Cottam, 77, of Peel Green Road, Eccles, was sadly found dead at his home on Saturday...