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Category: Salford News

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...

£5k goverment grants still available for flood hit Salford residents

Victims of the floods in Salford last year are running out of time to claim for cash to protect against flooding. The council estimates there are 250 households who have...

Salford community writers group launches, “Switch on, Write on, Read On”

Swinton-based community writers group, SWit’CH (Swinton Writers in t’ Critchley House) is set to launch its first anthology of work, “Switch On, Write...

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...

New jobs club launches in Langworthy

A new jobs club in Langworthy is dedicated to getting Salford residents into work and improving their lives. Those on the hunt for employment and training opportunities...

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...

Watch: Video of Salford MP on ‘tax-dodgers’ Finance Bill gets 100,000 hits

In a video clip from the House of Commons posted online by a Labour colleague Salford and Eccles MP Rebecca Long-Bailey outlines serious concerns over the 2016 Finance...