£81k available for grassroots groups in Salford and Manchester
Skipton Building Society’s award winning, community funding scheme, Grassroots Giving, has now officially launched its 2015 campaign. Grassroots Giving gives small...
50 years ago: Eccles priest scores five goals against Real Madrid
By Tony Flynn Thumbing through the Eccles Journal from June 1965 we came across an incredible story which is astonishing even to this day. The article recalled the death...
Mystery of Eccles’s 700 child refugees – 75 years on
By Tony Flynn We were intrigued by a newspaper article from June 1965 which tells the strange story of Noel Tostevin, who came to Eccles in 1940 as a child refugee from...
100 years ago in Salford: Family heartbroken by tragic death of 15-year-old mine worker Herbert Jones
By Tony Flynn In a story succinctly capturing the way that life and death never really changes, we came across this tragic piece on a teenager killed in a mining...
100 years ago: Speed demon biker rapped for police horse stunt ride
By Tony Flynn Road rage was something quite different at the birth of the motoring age in Salford, 100 years ago this week, illustrated by this humourous story of a...
Wade hits a ton for Swinton Moorside to crush Daisy Hill
By Peter Flatley Swinton Moorside returned to winning ways on Saturday with a convincing win against Daisy Hill despite having three senior players missing. The...
Landlord licensing scheme proposed in Broughton
Salford City Council is asking people what they think of a proposed scheme for private landlords in Broughton. The council is asking for feedback as it is considering...
18 homes greenlit on former Duchy Inn, Salford
A Manchester property firm has won planning permission to build 18 townhouses on the site of the former Duchy Inn in Salford. West Didsbury-based Insite Properties UK...
Live: Marwan Koukash Salford Red Devils press conference at AJ Bell Stadium
[liveblog] Join us from 10.30am on Tuesday as Marwan Koukash holds a press conference to dispel rumours of turmoil at the AJ Bell Stadium. The mercurial and outspoken...
600 plants seized at £250k Salford cannabis factory
Organised crime officers busted a huge abandoned warehouse in Salford today seizing 600 cannabis plants. At around 9.30am on Monday 22 June 2015, officers carried out a...
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