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Category: Salford News

Salford weather: Alert over strong winds and heavy rain

The Met Office is predicting rainstorms sweeping north into Salford throughout Wednesday afternoon and into Thursday morning. Persistent and at times heavy showers are...

Watch: Strangeways party protest grows as crowds dance Cha Cha Slide

Dancing protesters recreated DJ Casper’s 2000 hit Cha Cha Slide outside Strangeways prison as Stuart Horner’s one-man protest descended further into farce....

Watch: Strangeways: Tensions increase as prison protest rolls on

Convicted murderer Stuart Horner has entered his 49th hour of protest on the roof of Strangeways prison in Manchester. With a crowd of around 200 onlookers outside the...

Update on the Mancunian Way closure

The westbound carriageway of the Mancunian Way has today been closed for safety reasons. This is because a hole has appeared within the existing work compound, in an...

Salford Synchronised Swimming Team don their denim for charity

Famed for their exceptional portrayal of swimming, dance and gymnastics combined into a perfectly synchronized routine, Salford Synchronised Swimming Club is experts in...

Battle of Britain manufacturer Ford honoured with blue plaque

75 years to the day since the most famous day of fighting between British and German air forces in the Second World War, a blue plaque to Trafford’s Ford motor...

Salford swimming prodigy celebrates success in Samoa

17 year old Eccles college student and City of Salford swimmer Lewis Clough from Tyldesley returns home today with a staggering five medals, having represented Great...

Pal’s appeal to find family of Salford man Barry Curran, 50

The friend of a man who died in Swinton has joined a police appeal to find his family. 50-year-old Barry Curran, who is believed to have been born in Ordsall, passed...

Not so bitter now: Charity launches beer for child poverty awareness

Children’s charity Wood Street Mission has launched a Victorian-style beer to help raise awareness about the high levels of child poverty in Salford and...

Teenage boys arrested after 16-year-old girl tasered in Little Hulton

A 16-year-old girl was hospitalised last night after being tasered by two teenage boys in Little Hulton, Salford. The girl was walking along Ridyard Street at around...