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Highlights from World famous Goodwood Festival of Speed

Catch up with all the action from the world’s biggest motoring garden party with Formula One legend Jenson Button and Kaiser Chiefs lead singer Ricky Wilson. It’s...

Don’t be fast or furious on the roads this summer

This week’s motoring tips from the Institute of Advanced Motorists’s head of driving standards, Peter Rodger, are looking at the different speed limits applied to...

Stay ahead and send your tax return now

You don’t have to wait until the deadline During July, HMRC is providing further help and support with Self Assessment. Many of you have been notified already that you...

Top picks from Friday’s thunderstoms and lightning

Pictures by Nichola Mellor, Jody Butterworth Dobson Video by SalfordOnline.com Dramatic thunderstorms and lightning returned to Salford on Friday 1 July. But...

M60 J13-10 to close this weekend

Highways England will shut the M60 motorway overnight on Friday and Saturday to continue demolition of 100-tonne steel gantries for its £202m smart motorway project. On...

Missing: 13-year-old Jade Lees Blackmore

Police are growing increasingly concerned for a missing teenager. Jade Lees Blackmore was last seen on Cheetham Hill Road at 4.20pm on Thursday 2 July 2015. She is 5ft...

50 years ago in Salford: Police baffled by 5ft shark found in alleyway

SalfordOnline.com has reported some unusual stories over the years but this piece from 50 years ago today must surely take some beating. Readers may remember when...

Pupil, 10, caught with knife and hammer at Salford school

A 10-year-old primary school pupil has been reprimanded after taking a knife and hammer into school in Cadishead. On Thursday 25 June police received a call about a...

Salford weather: Thunder, hail and lightning storms to return

After two hours of thunder and lightning on Wednesday night forecasters are predicting violent storms will return to the city tonight. Hundreds of readers sent in...

CRG make Salford move to buyout Medacs Healthcare

Castlerock Recruitment Group (CRG), has acquired the Forensic Healthcare division of healthcare staffing and services company, Medacs Healthcare Plc, in an undisclosed...