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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...

Paras v Marines: Free tickets for veterans as rugby goes to war in Salford

This Sunday will see a bitter rivalry on display at the AJ Bell Stadium in Salford as Parachute Regiment rugby stars come out against the Royal Marines for the annual...

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...

100 years ago in Salford: ‘Rough’ Trafford Road pub hits headlines again as woman refuses to leave

Trafford Road in Salford was a hugely vibrant place in the early part of the century due to its proximity to Salford Docks, which attracted ships and cargo from all over...

Iraqi migrant who spoke no English named outstanding science student of the year

A teenage Salford City College student from Iraq has won a presitigious science award despite arriving in the country speaking little English and caring for her...

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...