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Live – Snow hits Salford: Travel news, pictures and weather

Around an inch of snow has fallen this morning in parts of Salford, and heavy flakes coming down now are sticking to the ground. Eccles is looking prettier than normal...

Morson International shortlisted for Best Candidate Care

Morson International have been shortlisted for Best Candidate Care in the Recruiter Awards 2016. The awards are highly respected within the recruitment industry and...

Crash on M62 at Eccles causing tailbacks

Drivers are being warned to expect delays heading out of Salford tonight after a crash on the M62. Four vehicles were involved in the smash, at around 4.10pm, but...

Salford prisoner ‘organised £600k jewel raids from prison cell’

A Forest Bank inmate has been convicted of two counts of conspiracy to rob after plotting armed jewel heists from his cell. Ian Ogden, 27, was found guilty on Wednesday...

Take pride in Boothstown with litter pick this Saturday

Two local groups are organising litter picks to get the whole area of Boothstown and Mosley Common cleaned up this Saturday 5 March. Starting at 10 am Boothstown...

Police hunt convicted child sex offender who absconded from court

Police are hunting a convicted sex offender who fled court moments before being found guilty of raping a child. Tariq Javed, 38, of Aspinall Street, Rusholme, absconded...

100 years ago in Salford: Docker jailed in 80lb cheese heist

Leaving a trail of ‘de brie’ in his wake, a Salford man was jailed 100 years ago this week for an audacious and frankly ridiculous theft. It was March 1916,...

‘GMP 1 Bad Guy 0’: Little Hulton man arrested after taunting police on Facebook

A man who taunted police on Facebook saying “you’ll never catch me” has been returned to prison. Curtis O’Brien, 26, was found hiding in a loft...

Rail services stopped on Eccles line after man walks into path of train

Rail services were suspended on the Eccles railway line this morning after a man walked onto railway lines at Patricroft station. At 9.45am this morning, Thursday 3...

Cyclist gets back in the saddle in memory of her mum

A charity fundraiser is getting back in the saddle to cycle through two South East Asian countries in memory of her late mum. Gina Dalton, 37, from Didsbury, is taking...