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Tom Rodgers

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

Two jailed for trafficking gun used to shoot 7-year-old Christian Hickey in Salford

Two men have been jailed for possessing firearms after a seven-year-old boy was shot in the leg in a horror attack that shocked the nation last year. Manchester Crown...

M61 re-opens after woman, 24, dies in lorry collision

The M61 has now re-opened after a 24-year-old was killed on the motorway early this morning. Police belive the woman’s Ford Fiesta span out after her car hit the...

Watch: Smoke seen across Salford as firefighters deal with large tyre fire

Fire crews were called to a large and developed fire in a derelict warehouse on Duchy Road in Salford on Sunday night. Residents reported the distinctive unpleasant...

Invictus and DIY SOS star hands out food for homeless with Salford’s JVA

A 39-year-old former soldier who lost an arm and both his legs in a bomb blast has been out feeding the homeless with Salford community group the Joint Veteran Alliance....

SalfordOnline Salford Pals ‘memory square’ chosen for Heaton Park Somme Centenary path

A SalfordOnline-designed ‘memory square’ honouring the sacrifice of a local soldier is one of 5,000 tiles marking a remembrance path commemorating the...

Man seriously hurt in fall from Salford Quays car park

Paramedics treated a man who fell from a multi-storey car park on Salford Quays this morning. Emergency crews were called to The Lowry Outlet shopping centre at around...

28-year-old charged after police stumble across 30 cannabis plants

A man has been charged with drugs offences after a cannabis farm was found in a house on Crossfield Road in Barton. Police were called to the Crossfield estate, off the...

Rapist jailed for 13 years for historic sexual abuse of children in Salford

A man has been jailed after he raped and sexually abused two men and a woman when they were children. Karl Snape, 44, of Gransmoor Avenue in Ashton, was found guilty of...

July 1: Free concert and full day of events for Salford’s Somme 100

Salford University is to host a the world premiere of a moving musical tribute to Salford men and boys killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. July 1 2016 marks the...

Find out who’s the king of the office in Salford Red Devils Foundation #RidetoRio challenge

Inter-office competition will be rife this July when Salford firms join a virtual 3,000-mile race to Rio de Janieiro. Salford Red Devils Foundation, the community arm of...