Tony Flynn
SalfordOnline.com's Local History Editor and Senior Reporter.
Salford City College celebrates student success at prestigious awards ceremony
Last week students, guests, governors and staff from Salford City College celebrated the end of another fantastic year at the annual Salford City College Awards. The...
Unseen Salford Treasures: Portrait to River Irwell drowning hero Mark Addy
Hanging on the wall of the Salford Museum and Art Gallery is a portrait of a man dubbed ‘the Salford Hero’ – Mark Addy. Mr Addy became famous for his...
Firm overturns ‘flood risk’ to turn Salford Quays office block into 60 flats
Salford City Council planners have given permission for a Manchester property firm to turn a Salford Quays office block into 60 flats. Developers Factory Estates Ltd,...
Police appeal after elderly woman robbed in Swinton supermarket
Officers have appealed for witnesses today after a woman in her late 70s was robbed by a man in the Swinton branch of Morrisons supermarket. The theft happened at the...
Check mates say bonjour, guten tag and welcome to Salford
Chess players from France, Germany and Greater Manchester did battle over a board as part of town twinning celebrations. The guests from Salford’s twin towns of Lunen...
Man arrested after knife brawl spills into Eccles Cross pub
By Tom Rodgers A 21-year-old man is in custody charged with possession of a blade after a brawl broke out in Eccles. Police were called shortly before midnight on...
I knew nothing of Salford Red Devils CCJs, says Koukash
By Andie Riley and Tom Rodgers Marwan Koukash claimed today not to know that Salford Red Devils had County Court Judgements outstanding against them for unpaid bills....
Arrest made after man injured at Heaton Park
A man has been arrested after a man needed two plates inserted into his cheek following an assault at a concert in Heaton Park The victim, 27, was attacked while...
Little Hulton is Salford’s pothole capital, FSB study finds
By Tom Rodgers Lester Road in Little Hulton to be the most complained about street in Salford for potholes, research by the Federation for Small Businesses has found....
100 years ago in Eccles: Mobs riot and ransack town over Lusitania sinking
It is exactly 100 years ago today that the RMS Lusitania was sunk off the coast of Ireland by a German submarine with the loss of 1,198 men, women and children. This act...
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