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Upper crust: Billionaire bookie Fred Done doubles up for St Ann’s

Bookie Fred Done faced the wrath of a football club’s queen of pies Barbara Gaskill for charity – and now he wants to turn the tables and give her a job! Fred donned...

Winner: Hay Bales on Irlam Moss scoops SalfordOnline.com Autumn Colours Competition

SalfordOnline.com has managed to track down the winner of its first ever Autumn Colours Photo Competition, which we’re delighted to be able to announce today....

Monton Voices Choir to premiere two new carols this Saturday

Monton Voices Choir fresh from their success at the switching on of the Monton Christmas Lights and a performance last Sunday when they participated in a carol concert...

Tributes paid to Jean Lefort, French Worsley town twinning champion

Tributes have been paid to a great exponent of Worsley’s town twinning with French commune Saint-Ouen. Jean Lefort, president of the Saint-Ouen Twinning...

Swinton care centre launches dementia support group

A care centre in Swinton has launched a dementia support group for families and care-givers on the first Wednesday of every month. The two-hour sessions at the Fountains...

Safer Sphere wins 995-flat Chapel Wharf contract next to Salford Lowry Hotel

Health and safety firm Safer Sphere has won a contract to work on a 995-flat development scheme next to the Lowry Hotel in Salford. Safer Sphere, based in St Helens,...

Beechfield United Juniors weekend results

The recent atrocious weather continued to play havoc with the fixtures involving Beechfield United’s Junior Section teams but the six games that did take place all...

Soldier’s 1915 anthem for doomed Salford youth at Gallipoli

One of the few men to survive the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War wrote to the Eccles and Patricroft Journal in December 1915 describing the unimaginable...

£1m lottery hub in Little Hulton open for change

A former shop in Little Hulton could open the doors to £1 million worth of community change. Local residents bid for the funding from the National Lottery Big Local...

Apartments plan for historic Red Lion pub in Patricroft

Councillors are considering new plans to refurbish the vacant Red Lion pub in Patricroft, Eccles, to build four one-bed affordable apartments. The former pub on Chapel...