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Home Bargains sees £20m profit hike as Eccles expansion planned

Family-owned discount retailer Home Bargains has posted a substantial spike in profits in its most recent accounts. In the year to 30 June 2015, the Liverpool-based firm...

Growth-hunting Salford building firm make Peter Collins first chairman

Manchester and Cheshire Construction have appointed growth expert Peter Collins as their first ever chairman. Collins joins the board in a non-executive capacity as the...

Salford and Eccles MP joins hunger strike in support of British Guantanamo detainee

Salford and Eccles MP Rebecca Long-Bailey joined fellow MPs and a host of celebrities in a hunger strike in support of Shaker Aamer – the last British detainee held at...

AFC Monton Club report

By Ron Hodkin FBT Manchester League Premier Division AFC Monton 0 Prestwich Heys 1 Table topping Prestwich Heys kept their remarkable unbeaten run intact with this win...

Shaw Cross Sharks 32 Salford City Roosters 16

Match report by Ken Roberts It was a familiar story for the Salford City Roosters this season as they were defeated in Dewsbury by promotion hopefuls Shaw Cross Sharks...

‘Slow’ employers urged to take speeding seriously

A report released by Brake, the road safety charity, and Licence Bureau, has found employers whose staff drive for work could do more to train and educate them about the...

17,000 + convicted of careless driving in the past 2 years

The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) can reveal that more than 17,000 people have been convicted of careless driving offences since police were given the power to...

Watch: Dads stop hugging their children aged 10

Millions of dads stop hugging their children – by the time they turn 10 years old, a study has found. A poll of 2,000 dads found more than one in 10 no longer cuddles...

Historians take Britain back to the future

Historians have revealed what London would have looked like today – had Guy Fawkes’ gunpowder plot not been thwarted by the spies of the past. The images show how...

Online HMRC support when paying employee expenses

Reporting expenses and benefits this tax year As an employer, you could be faced with reimbursing an employee’s job–related expenses or providing a benefit in kind....