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Tom Rodgers

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

Mr Scruff to play epic Islington Mill £735k ‘Raise the Roof’ fundraiser

Legendary Manchester DJ Andy Carthy – better known as Mr Scruff – is to play a fundraiser at Salford’s Islington Mill to help keep the rain out of the...

No arrests in connection with boy stabbed in buttocks

At around 3pm on Tuesday 13 September a teenage boy was stabbed in broad daylight on a busy Salford street. The 16-year-old boy was found by officers at the scene with...

VIDEO/PICS: Heatwave turns to Salford lightning storm

Sweltering temperatures progressed to a serious storm over Salford on Tuesday evening as the skies went black, before crashing thunder, pelting rain and lightning. Mike...

Boy, 16, stabbed in the buttock in Salford

A teenage boy was stabbed in broad daylight on a Salford street this afternoon. He was treated for wounds to his buttock and remains in a stable condition in hospital,...

Watch: Ordsall kids go Olympics mad but threat of development lingers

Under the sunny skies of Salford on Saturday children and parents enjoyed a wonderful day for the Ordsall Olympic Festival. Families took to the sports and community...

Salford armed house raid ‘like something out of a film’

Armed police raided a house in Salford on Sunday night with residents describing the surreal scenes like something from a movie. Police stormed onto Knutsford Street off...

Traffic light failure on A580 near Walkden ’caused by slugs’

Traffic in Walkden is attempting to negotiate a busy junction at rush hour without the help of traffic lights, which have broken for the third time inside two weeks. The...

Love at 3,000ft: Is this Salford’s most ambitious ever wedding proposal?

A lovestruck would-be groom proposed to his fiancee while she flew high over Salford this week. Jamie Dell, 32, proposed to his fiancee Sally Richmond, 38, with a huge...

Fury over Peel’s ‘shameful’ Manchester rebrand of Salford’s Lowry Outlet Mall

News that Peel are due to rename Salford’s Lowry Outlet Mall to ‘Lifestyle Outlet Manchester’ has enraged locals sick of seeing Salford subsumed with...

Up to 80 jobs as Quality Save agrees new flagship 22,000sq ft store in Walkden

Budget retailer Quality Save have agreed terms to open a new 22,000sq ft store at the Ellesmere Retail Park in Walkden. At the planning stage the Salford-based food and...