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Category: Salford News

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....

Lawyers out as Salford Council blast Koukash £800k claim as ‘wholly untrue’

Salford Council have denied categorically a claim made this morning by Salford Red Devils owner Marwan Koukash that the authority owes the club £800,000. Both sides say...

Thousands of awesome Lego bricks for Wood Street Mission

Following its hugely successful Easter Bring-A-Brick campaign which called on young Lego lovers to donate a brick from their own collection, Legoland Discovery Centre...

£81k available for grassroots groups in Salford and Manchester

Skipton Building Society’s award winning, community funding scheme, Grassroots Giving, has now officially launched its 2015 campaign. Grassroots Giving gives small...

18 homes greenlit on former Duchy Inn, Salford

A Manchester property firm has won planning permission to build 18 townhouses on the site of the former Duchy Inn in Salford. West Didsbury-based Insite Properties UK...

600 plants seized at £250k Salford cannabis factory

Organised crime officers busted a huge abandoned warehouse in Salford today seizing 600 cannabis plants. At around 9.30am on Monday 22 June 2015, officers carried out a...

Incredible escape: Man on Spice legal high ‘can’t remember’ 60ft leap from Salford tower block

A 29-year-old man took a legal high and jumped almost 60 feet from a tower block in Salford – but told police he ‘couldn’t remember’ doing it. He...

RSPCA probe Salford cruelty as kids pelt horse with bricks

A horse tethered to a fence in Salford was injured after young children were seen throwing stones and wooden planks. Police were called to Bank Lane, near the disused...

Man’s body found in water at Salford Quays

Pictures by @DavidJClifford Police are investigating after a man’s body was found in water at Salford Quays. Shortly before 1pm today the body of a man was...