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Little Hulton shooting: Cocaine gang feud escalates with shotgun blast on Gorse Drive house

Police say a man with a shotgun walked up to the front door of a Little Hulton house and fired off rounds in a suspected intimidation attempt. Armed police locked down...

Fan favourites: Swinton High School repping Manchester United win national competition

Pupils at Swinton High School are celebrating after beating allcomers to win a national award for Manchester United. Representing the Reds at the national competition,...

Sniffer dog finds £3.5k of illegal tobacco in Walkden shop

A shop worker readily confessed to selling illegal tobacco when confronted with the four paws of the law. Buster,a tobacco sniffer dog, his handler and officers from...

Gifts, cash and wages: Koukash blasts RFL for salary cap claims

Maverick Salford Red Devils owner Marwan Koukash has come out fighting after being accused by the RFL of breaching the sport’s £1.825m salary cap. In a press...

Barnardo’s chief executive praises Salford youth group

A group of young people have been praised as ‘inspirational’ by former University of Salford student Javed Khan, chief executive of Barnardo’s. Mr Khan, who...

Call for dashcam footage after jogger, 54, left with critical head injury

Police are appealing for drivers to come forward after a jogger hit by a car suffered a serious head injury. At around 6.50pm on Monday 8 March 2016, the 54-year-old man...

Somme commemorations – Salford will remember

Soldiers killed at the battle of The Somme will be remembered in a full weekend of commemorations in Salford in July – including the world premier of a new, musical...

Over 500 volunteers spruce up Salford

Over 540 proud Salfordians shifted three and a half tonnes of litter to give the city a right royal clean up last weekend. Forty different groups from local schools to...

No Smoking Day event at Salford City College

Students at Salford City College who smoke are being urged to take the first step in giving up cigarettes for good on No Smoking Day, which took place on Wednesday 9...

Salford City College celebrates success at stakeholder event

On Friday 4 March Salford City College held its second ‘Annual Review’ event, to celebrate its achievements from the 2014/15 academic year with key stakeholders and...