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Category: Salford News

Sir Peter Fahy to retire from policing

Sir Peter Fahy is set to retire after 35 years of policing, today he gave the following statement. Following 34 years as a police officer including almost 13 years as a...

Police arrest 238 drink and drug drivers

Greater Manchester Police arrested more than two drug drivers a day as part of a month-long crackdown on drink and drug driving. Officers tested 93 motorists at the...

Barbara Keeley MP says Budget will hit working people in Salford

Barbara Keeley, MP for Worsley and Eccles South, has criticised the Conservative Government’s Summer Budget because it will badly affect many working people while...

Laughing gas ‘legal high’ to be transformed into art project

Potentially lethal laughing gas cylinders discarded by drug users in Salford are being transformed into a community art project. Greater Manchester Police have been...

Stars out for Salford’s BreastFest this Saturday

Local woman Gail Kirkham, 51, was devastated when she was diagnosed with breast cancer on 11 September 2013 in what she calls her own 9/11 moment. But Gail was...

Violent legal high patients a danger to paramedics, say NWAS

Paramedics are bearing the brunt of violent patients out of their minds on legal highs, the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) said today. Frontline crews are even...

£1,000 reward to catch wanted roofer Dale Peppard

Crimestopers have put up a £1,000 reward to catch wanted Dale Peppard, who has links to Swinton in Salford. Peppard, 26, was charged in December last year with drugs...

Eccles Match.com conman ordered to pay thousands to orphanage scam victims

A Nigerian man living in Salford who scammed nearly £100,000 out of four vulnerable women has been ordered to pay £2,000 to his victims. Adewale Adewole, 31, of the...

Three Salford men wanted on recall to prison

Police are looking for men wanted on recall to prison after all three breached the conditions of their licence. William McLeish, 44, has known links in Salford and...

‘Drunk driver’ abandons car in Irlam with bottle of whisky on front seat

Police were called to the scene of an unusual incident in Irlam where they found a car abandoned on a dual carriageway. At around 9pm on Friday 3 July a passing car...