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Tom Rodgers

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

Pictures: Over 10,000 expected at free Trafford Centre #999Day

Huge crowds will descend on the most popular emergency services open day in Manchester this week for #999Day. On Thursday 4 August some 10,000 people are expected to...

Update: Meadowbrook patient refusing to come down from roof of Salford mental health unit

Police and fire crews are helping staff at a mental health unit to negotiate with a male patient who climbed on the building’s roof and refused to come down. At...

The X-Pat Files: Lower Broughton to San Francisco

SalfordOnline.com has readers from all over the world, and now we’re going to try to meet them all. Our main readership is Salford and Manchester, with other parts...

Eccles still waiting but trams back up and running for MediaCityUK – changes to bus replacements

Commuters to Eccles will have to wait around another month before trams start arriving at their local Metrolink stop, but part of the line has now re-opened to Salford...

Missing Salford girl, 15, found safe and well

Missing teenager Chloe Toal has been found safe and well, Greater Manchester Police’s Salford division report. Officers released the 15-year-old’s picture...

Light Oaks Road closures this week for resurfacing

Two cut-through routes in Claremont will be closed to traffic this week for resurfacing works, Salford City Council say. From Wednesday 3 August for a maximum of two...

Watch: Race is on at Trafford Centre for Salford Red Devils Foundation’s #RidetoRio

Sports lovers are coming together at the Trafford Centre over the next two days to pedal their way to victory with Salford Red Devils Foundation. It’s all going...

Smoke seen over Salford ‘from Broughton garden fire’

Fears of a large blaze in Salford signalled by heavy plumes of smoke turned out to be a small fire in the garden of a house near Albert Park in Broughton. Fire crews...

Finding Dory swim sessions making a splash in Salford

Community swimming sessions inspired by Disney Finding Dory start this week at pools across Salford and everyone’s invited. Each one-hour session is inspired by...

20-mile police pursuit ends with van hit by stinger on Agecroft Road

Police from Lancashire carried out a 20-mile pursuit of a burglary suspect that ended in a dramatic swoop in Salford late last night. Eyewitnesses reported a large...