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Tom Rodgers

Tom is SalfordOnline.com's News Editor and community co-ordinator.

M60 J13-10 to close this weekend

Highways England will shut the M60 motorway overnight on Friday and Saturday to continue demolition of 100-tonne steel gantries for its £202m smart motorway project. On...

Missing: 13-year-old Jade Lees Blackmore

Police are growing increasingly concerned for a missing teenager. Jade Lees Blackmore was last seen on Cheetham Hill Road at 4.20pm on Thursday 2 July 2015. She is 5ft...

Pupil, 10, caught with knife and hammer at Salford school

A 10-year-old primary school pupil has been reprimanded after taking a knife and hammer into school in Cadishead. On Thursday 25 June police received a call about a...

Salford weather: Thunder, hail and lightning storms to return

After two hours of thunder and lightning on Wednesday night forecasters are predicting violent storms will return to the city tonight. Hundreds of readers sent in...

CRG make Salford move to buyout Medacs Healthcare

Castlerock Recruitment Group (CRG), has acquired the Forensic Healthcare division of healthcare staffing and services company, Medacs Healthcare Plc, in an undisclosed...

Minute’s silence at noon for Britain’s Tunisia massacre victims

The country will fall silent at 12 noon today in memory of the British tourists killed in the recent terrorist beach shooting in Tunisia. Prime Minister David Cameron...

Salford Professional Development on course for record £2.6m revenue

A Salford conference and training provider is on track for a record year after its busiest-ever month. Salford Professional Development (SPD) , a subsidiary of the...

Appeal to find family of James Slater, 45, who died in Pendleton

The Police Coroner’s office has issued an appeal to trace the family of a man who died in Pendleton, Salford this week. The body of 45-year-old James Slater, of...

Police slam ‘fake advice letter’ to break car windows saving dogs trapped in hot cars

A post that’s gone viral on Facebook is giving out the wrong information about breaking car windows to save dogs trapped inside, say police in Salford. The letter,...

Delays piling up after crash on Redclyffe Road near Trafford Centre

Drivers are being diverted around the Trafford Centre this afternoon after a two-car crash forced a road closure. At around 3.30pm today, Thursday 2 July, police closed...