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Tom Rodgers

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

Gallery: Historic images of Salford’s Peel Park as more detail on £2.5m upgrade revealed

Talking flowers, toy diggers and rope swings will give Peel Park a 21st century look when it reopens next summer, say Salford City Council. Now historic images of the...

Biker in 60s hurt in Swinton crash that causes standstill

A motorbike rider in his early 60s was taken to hospital this morning after a rush-hour crash in Swinton. Ambulance crews happened to be passing when the call came...

The Colour of Magic: Watch fireworks epic win big for Salford

A local firm have smashed expectations by coming away with a top industry award for a stunning fireworks extravaganza. Salford-born Jason Graham and his team at Atom...

Winton housing site manager wins national award

Simon Ward, from Clifton in Salford, is the proud recipient of a National House Building Council (NHBC) Pride in the Job award. A site manager with Bellway Homes for...

£1.5m Foundry Film Studios open in Ordsall

The renaissance of business in Ordsall takes another step forward today with the opening of the Foundry Film Studios. The 8,000sq ft purpose-built venue, over the road...

Family firm Creamline milks it for St Ann’s Hospice

A family-owned dairy firm has donated a day’s worth of milk to St Ann’s Hospice Creamline Dairies gave 72 pints to the hospice to celebrate its Time for Tea...

Salford gang raids: Four arrests and large quantity of ‘serious’ drugs seized

Four people suspected of being involved in gang supply of Class A drugs were arrested in dawn raids in Salford today, Tuesday 20 September. From around 6am police from...

Cuts row will see 1,250 firefighters ‘sacked’

Fire Service trade union the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has been left furious by Greater Manchester Fire Service plan to sack and re-employ every frontline firefighter in...

Vote for St Ann’s Hospice to bag cash for Little Hulton sensory garden

St Ann’s Hospice is bidding to bag a massive cash boost from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative. The supermarket has teamed up with Groundwork on its Bags of Help...

Woman hurt in Eccles taxi van smash still in critical condition

A woman hurt when a taxi and van collided in Eccles on Friday remains in a critical condition. The woman, in her 50s, suffered multiple injuries when the shunt saw her...