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SALFORD COUNCIL REFUSES TO REVEAL PLANNING VIABILITY FIGURES UNDER FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT

Star date: 30th January 2015

AS SALFORD PEOPLE GET SCREWED FOR £MILLIONS BY DEVELOPERS, VIABILITY FIGURES TO REMAIN SECRET

After the Salford Star had publicised the disgrace of developers getting away with paying £millions in planning obligations for putting up huge blocks of flats, even Salford Council's Assistant Mayor for Planning called the practice a "public scandal of immense proportions".

Planners are getting away with it by submitting `viability assessments' showing their profits won't be big enough if they had to pay such fees. The Salford Star asked to see one of these `viability assessments' under the Freedom of Information Act – but Salford Council has refused, stating it's `in the public interest' for them to remain secret. You what?

Full details here...

added 30 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD STOCK TRANSFER CONSULTANTS TO BE PAID £1,250 PER DAY ON TOP OF £172,000 CONTRACT

Star date: 29th January 2015 

PWC CONSULTANTS TO BE PAID £1,250 A DAY FOR EXTRA WORK ON SALIX HOMES TRANSFER

PWC consultants is set to be paid an extra £41,875, or £1,250 per day, for 33.5 days work for a Lead Advisor/Project Manager to complete work on the council house stock transfer process to Salix Homes by March – even though there is a £172,000 contract already in place for work until that date.

The extra contract will mean that the consultants will have picked up a total of £403,875 for various `advice' and `support' contracts on the transfer. PWC had originally wanted £75,000 for the extra work.

Full details here...

added 29 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD SOCIAL HOUSING RENTS TO RISE BY FOUR TIMES THE RATE OF INFLATION

Star date: 28th January 2015

SALIX AND PENDLETON TOGETHER TENANTS GET HAMMERED WITH RENT RISES - AGAIN

With the current rate of inflation running at 0.5%, tenants of Salix and Pendleton Together face rent rises of 2.2% in 2015-16, which will add almost £7 a month to bills. This comes on top of 17.3% rent rises seen over the last three years.

Meanwhile, service charges for both housing providers will `reflect the actual costs of providing those services', so some tenants will see decreases while others will see whopping increases.

Full details here...

added 28 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD RESIDENT CAUGHT IN HORRIFIC CARE AND CUTS STORM

Star date: 27th January 2015

CAN THIS GET ANY WORSE? WELCOME TO SALFORD 2015...

"It's all a nightmare...I don't know how I'm going to cope..."

Everything horrific about living under Council and Government `austerity' has come together in a perfect care and cuts storm for one parent caring for a severely disabled adult in Salford.

This mum has lived with a catalogue of cuts and ridiculous benefit policies that have left her with absolutely no income, bills coming in for Council Tax and Bedroom Tax, and inferior care for her son that has seen him wait five hours to go to the toilet. All because she had to have major surgery on her arms. What is real life like in 2015? Read this and weep...Or get angry.

Full details here...

added 27 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD MPS REFUSE TO BACK FREEZE ON FRACKING

Star date: 27th January 2015

SALFORD LABOUR MPS ABSTAIN IN FRACKING FREEZE VOTE

Salford's Labour MPs all abstained yesterday in a vote to declare a freeze, or moratorium, on fracking while an independent assessment is carried out into its impact on climate change, the environment, health and safety and the economy.

Instead the Infrastructure Bill was passed with some added conditions including a ban on fracking in national parks and stricter regulations, which Friends of the Earth hailed as a `Government retreat'.

Full details here...

added 27 January 2015  

 
 

THE £13.8MILLION COST OF GREATER MANCHESTER DEVOLUTION

Star date: 26th January 2015

THE STAGGERING COST OF GREATER MANCHESTER DEVOLUTION

Latest figures from the GMCA (Greater Manchester Combined Authorities) and AGMA (Association of Greater Manchester Authorities) put the costs related to Greater Manchester devolution at £13.825million for just one year, 2015-16.

The costs include £12.4million for the "scale up to meet the commitments within the reform aspects of the Devolution Agreement", £475,000 "in relation to recruitment, communications, research, intelligence and policy development" and almost £1million to administer new housing policies and funds.

Full details here...

added 26 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD GETS TWO TUSC CANDIDATES IN GENERAL ELECTION

Star date: 26th January 2015  

TUSC TO STAND TWO ANTI-AUSTERITY CANDIDATES IN SALFORD

"I'm just a normal mum and someone has to fight for our kids. There's nobody else that can do it for us..." Noreen Bailey

As the anti-austerity Syrza pary swept to power in Greece yesterday, here in Salford the anti-austerity TUSC – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition – announced that it is standing two candidates in Salford.

Trade union activist Steven North will be standing in Worsley and Eccles South, while Noreen Bailey, who has led the fight against cuts to transport for disabled adults, will be standing in Salford and Eccles. TUSC is also to stand in fifteen of the twenty wards at the local elections in May.

Full details here...

added 26 January 2015  

 
 

THE LEGACY OF SALFORD ICON EWAN MACCOLL

Star date: 25th January 2015  

EWAN MACCOLL – A SALFORD TRIBUTE

PART 3: THE CENTENARY LEGACY

"If you don't fight back they've succeeded in dehumanising you..." Ewan MacColl

One hundred years after the birth of Ewan MacColl, what is the legacy of the Salford icon? His traditionalist folk ballads and love songs, classic as some are, almost belong to a bygone era; his agitprop plays were of a bygone moment and the Communist Party to which he belonged is almost extinct in this country.

So what is Ewan MacColl's legacy? He was a Salford fighter.

Full details here...

added 25 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD ICON EWAN MACCOLL AND THE DIRTY OLD TOWN

Star date: 25th January 2015  

EWAN MACCOLL – A SALFORD TRIBUTE

PART 2: DIRTY OLD TOWN

Ewan MacColl perceived his home town Salford with a mixture of "love and hate". And he detested what Salford Council had done to the city... `cheap ...nasty...nothing but the worst for the working classes'.

Here, Ewan's third wife, Peggy Seeger, gives a unique insight into his views on Salford and those, like The Pogues, who, he reckoned, had wrecked Dirty Old Town. We also print the missing verse of that song. Plus did Salford Council really make him change the line from `Smelled the spring on the Salford wind'?

Full details here...

added 25 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD ICON EWAN MACCOLL CENTENARY

Star date: 25th January 2015  

EWAN MACCOLL AND HIS LEGACY – A SALFORD TRIBUTE

PART 1

Ewan MacColl, born in Lower Broughton 25th January 1915, is world famous for creating working class songs, plays, poems and protest. In this special Salford Star centenary celebration, split into three parts, we have a bit of everything – from the missing verse of Dirty Old Town to Peggy Seegar's recollections of her husband's attitude to Salford.

However, an equally fitting tribute showcases his attitude towards life – which, in these times of austerity and cuts, has much to offer a new generation. Ladies and gentlemen of Salford we give you the one and only Ewan MacColl...

Full details here...

added 25 January 2015  

 
 

FRACKING NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE SAY MPS AS SALFORD CASE ADJOURNED UNTIL MARCH

Star date: 24th January 2015  

SALFORD MPS URGED TO VOTE FOR FRACKING PAUSE NEXT WEEK

Salford MPs – Hazel Blears, Barbara Keeley and Graham Stringer – are being urged to support a cross party vote for a moratorium on fracking across Britain on Monday when the Infrastructure Bill comes before Parliament.

The motion, backed by Bolton Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas amongst others, would put a pause on fracking for up to two and a half years while the risks are assessed. Meanwhile a potential dynamite court case surrounding the IGas site in Salford has been adjourned until March.

Full details here...

added 24 January 2015  

 
 

ALIAS KID NEW BAD BOYS OF ROCK

Star date: 24th January 2015

SEX PISTOLS...HAPPY MONDAYS...ALIAS KID?

Alias Kid, managed by former Oasis and Creation Records svengali Alan McGee, are being touted as the new bad boys of rock. Attempts to chuck eggs at David Cameron's lair and run-ins with the law are the backdrop for some top tunes, as the band's debut single and album are about to be unleashed.

Here Graham Williamson catches up with Alias Kid's Maz and Sean, who sees possible success as an escape from his factory job in Salford.

Full details here...

added 24 January 2015  

 
 

NEW SALFORD SPIN ON BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Star date: 24th January 2015

THE REFLECTIVE THEATRE ADD FUN AND SPARKLE TO FAMILY CLASSIC

Beauty and the Beast
Tues Feb 3rd and Wed 4th
Adelphi Studio Theatre £5

Children's classic, Beauty and the Beast, is to get a panto makeover from University of Salford students who are promising to `make it fresh for a modern audience'.

The drama and comedy students have set up the Reflective Theatre company and 'Beauty is their first full length production... "It's a tale of love, magic and laughter that's fun for all the family"

Full details here...

added 24 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD PLANNING MAYOR FINALLY EXPOSES `PUBLIC SCANDAL OF IMMENSE PROPORTIONS’

Star date: 22nd January 2015

SALFORD ASSISTANT PLANNING MAYOR ACCUSES ERIC PICKLES OF ROBBING COMMUNITY TO LINE DEVELOPERS' POCKETS

Following Salford Star articles accusing Salford councillors of saying nothing about Government planning regulations that allow developers to escape paying millions of pounds to Salford City Council, Councillor Derek Antrobus, Assistant Mayor for Strategic Planning, finally let Tory Secretary of State Eric Pickles have it with both barrels at yesterday's full Council meeting.

It was "a public scandal of immense proportions that has seen Eric Pickles rig the planning regulations in order to deprive, to rob, local communities of its essential investment in order to line the pockets of landowners and developers" said Antrobus. And Salford Tory Leader, Karen Garrido, agreed that it was a "serious problem".

Full details here...

added 22 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD DISABLED TRANSPORT USERS LOSE APPEAL AGAINST SALFORD COUNCIL CUT

Star date: 20th January 2015

CAMPAIGNERS VOW TO FIGHT ON AFTER COURT APPEAL LOSS

"We are very disappointed with the outcome of this appeal and the massive consequences this will have on so many vulnerable members of the community in Salford" Mathieu Culverhouse, Irwin Mitchell

Michael Robson and Jennifer Barrett, the two disabled users of Salford Council's Passenger Transport Unit, today lost their appeal against an earlier High Court decision allowing the axing of the service as part of horrific cuts in the city.

On hearing the judgement, Michael's mother, Mary, said she was "disgusted" but added "We're not finished yet..."

Full details here...

added 20 January 2015  

 
 

17,700 SALFORD PEOPLE WILL PAY MORE COUNCIL TAX WITH CUT IN SUPPORT

Star date: 20th January 2015

SALFORD COUNCIL TAX SUPPORT CUT WILL HIT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

Tomorrow, Salford Council is due to rubber stamp its cut in support for those who can't afford Council Tax, making everyone of working age pay at least 15% of their bill, with 17,700 people affected.

Of those who currently claim on the Council Tax Reduction Scheme, over 74% disagreed with the increased payments in a Council consultation, while a Council report on the cut states that it "will reduce the disposable income of many on low incomes, increasing socio-economic inequality..."

Full details here...

added 20 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD COUNCIL’S AJ BELL STADIUM RECORDS £5.2MILLION LOSSES

Star date: 19th January 2015

SALFORD COUNCIL LOOKS SET TO HAND STADIUM ANOTHER £1MILLION

"The directors have...received comfort from the directors of Salford City Council that the necessary level of support will be provided to the company" Stadium accounts 2013-14

Salford City Council's AJ Bell Stadium, a joint venture with Peel Holdings, has recorded a loss of £5.2million according to its latest set of accounts released last week.

The Stadium also has current net liabilities of £2.257million, which means that unless something spectacular happens Peel Holdings and cash-strapped Salford Council will have to put another £1.1million each into the company before December 2015.

Full details here...

added 19 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD IGNORES EWAN MACCOLL CENTENARY

Star date: 18th January 2015

SALFORD ICON FORGOTTEN IN HOME CITY

Next Sunday, 25th January, marks one hundred years since the birth of Ewan MacColl, socialist activist, actor, playwright, poet and the writer of stunning songs like Dirty Old Town and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.

In Glasgow there's to be a special tribute concert featuring, amongst loads of artists, Jarvis Cocker and Ewan's four grandsons. Radio 4 is broadcasting a special documentary The Real MacColl with John Cooper Clarke, and there's also the release of a Ewan McColl cover album. But in Salford, his home town, there is nothing planned at all.

Full details here...

added 18 January 2015  

 
 

DAVID CAMERON SLATED AS SALFORD STATS SHOW OVER 600 INJURED AT WORK OVER LAST TWO YEARS

Star date: 17th January 2015

SALFORD HAS FOURTH HIGHEST RATE OF WORK RELATED INJURIES IN GREATER MANCHESTER

"Cameron has waged an unrelenting attack on the protective H&S laws and their enforcement which keep workers safe and healthy..." Hilda Palmer GMHC

New figures released by the Government's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that 654 people suffered work related injuries over the last two years, the fourth highest rate in Greater Manchester.

Responding to the Government figures, Hilda Palmer of the Greater Manchester Hazards Centre put the blame firmly on Prime Minister David Cameron's "lies" on health and safety, as he cut the HSE budget by 44%.

Full details here...

added 17 January 2015  

 
 

ANTHONY GRAINGER FAMILY CALLS FOR PUBLIC INQUIRY AFTER GMP CHIEF TRIAL COLLAPSES

Star date: 16th January 2015

GRAINGER FAMILY NO NEARER TO TRUTH BEHIND SALFORD MAN'S SHOOTING

The family of Anthony Grainger  has called for a Public Inquiry after the `health and safety' case against Greater Manchester Police Chief Sir Peter Fahy collapsed today.

Salford's Anthony Grainger was shot dead by an officer from Greater Manchester Police in 2012 but while the officer didn't face criminal charges, Chief Constable Fahy was to be charged under the Health and Safety at Work Act. While calling for a Public Inquiry into the shooting, Anthony's family solicitor this afternoon stated "The family of Antony are hugely disappointed at the decision not to proceed with the prosecution of Sir Peter Fahy."

Full details here...

added 16 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD PLANNING COUNCILLORS QUESTION THEIR EXISTENCE

Star date: 15th January 2015

SALFORD COUNCILLORS FINALLY SLAM DEVELOPERS AT CHAPEL WHARF AND SALFORD QUAYS 

"I don't know what's going on here" Councillor Derek Antrobus
"Why am I here?" Councillor Karen Garrido

Councillors sitting on Salford Council's planning panel questioned their roles and power today as they slammed applications for over 1,500 flats which are set to lose Salford Council £4.4million in planning fees, with no affordable housing attached.

An application from Acroy/Dandara for 995 flats in Chapel Wharf was deferred pending clarification of housing policy, while an application from Amstone Ventures for 665 flats at Clippers Quay was passed, with Conservative Leader Karen Garrido abstaining from the vote complaining of the lack of affordable housing and pathetically low payments to the Council.

Full details here...

added 15 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD COUNCIL £55MILLION CUTS MASSACRE CONTINUES

Star date: 14th January 2015

NOW CHILDREN TAKE THE AXE...

"The most savage attack to date on council services..." Salford City UNISON

Having already announced the slashing of adult social care budgets, children are the latest target as Salford Council reveals another £6.3million of cuts on top of the £37.6million listed in November.

There is a new `review' of services for children with disabilities, an increase in charges for Council run nurseries and more cuts to its 0-19 service. Meanwhile, hundreds of jobs will be cut as Council staff trade union, Salford City UNISON, says it "will work with any groups who are sincerely committed to challenging these cuts"...

Full details here...

added 14 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD COUNCIL LOSES £4.4MILLION IN HUGE APARTMENT DEVELOPMENTS SCANDAL

Star date: 13th January 2015 

PROPERTY SPECULATORS CASH IN ON HUGE APARTMENT BLOCKS IN CHAPEL STREET AND THE QUAYS

Two massive property developments in Chapel Street and Salford Quays containing over 1,500 flats are set to lose Salford Council £4.4million in planning fees, with no affordable housing attached, when the plans come before the Council's planning panel tomorrow.

Acroy Ltd is proposing four huge blocks up to 23 storeys high in Chapel Street, and Amstone Ventures is proposing five blocks up to fifteen storeys high at the old cinema site at Clippers Quay. Both have been treated differently for the level of financial contributions they are to be let off with paying Salford Council. Why? What the hell is going on?

Full details here...

added 13 January 2015  

 
 

BEZ LAUNCHES HUGE SALFORD REALITY PARTY GENERAL ELECTION BILLBOARD

Star date: 12th January 2015

CHAPEL STREET HOARDING LAUNCHES £1 MILLION REALITY PARTY SUPERGROUP ELECTION CAMPAIGN

A giant `Join The Revolution' hoarding was unveiled by Happy Mondays star Bez on Chapel Street this afternoon when it was confirmed that he would stand in Hazel Blears' current Salford and Eccles seat at the General Election. Jackie Anderson is also set to stand for the Reality Party against Barbara Kelley in Worsley and Eccles South.

During the launch Bez revealed that a proposed supergroup starring himself, Shaun Ryder and Ian Brown could raise up to £1million for Reality Party funds and the Coffee4Craig homeless charity.

Full details here...

added 12 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD ENJOYS TASTE OF NEW GOVERNMENT FOOD STANDARDS WITH DIANE MODAHL

Star date: 12th January 2015

SALFORD SCHOOLS GET EVEN MORE HEALTHY MEALS

Athletics legend Diane Modahl sampled the new lunch menu at St George's C of E Primary School in Whit Lane last week and declared it `wonderful' as she discussed running, eating and wellbeing with pupils.

Diane's visit was to promote new Government food standards in schools which came into effect this term, giving cooks more flexibility to create menus as well as building healthy eating habits for life.

Full details here...

added 12 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD COUNCIL HOMELESS VOLUNTEER PARKING TICKET CONTROVERSY

Star date: 11th January 2015

COFFEE4CRAIG CHARITY VOLUNTEER GETS PARKING TICKET WHILE ESCORTING HOMELESS TO SHELTER

Mean spirited Salford Council has refused to rescind a parking fine imposed on a Coffee4Craig volunteer while he was escorting homeless people from his car to the Lancaster House night shelter on Boxing Day.

The volunteer's car was parked on a single yellow line for around three minutes... "I think Salford Council has got serious issues" he says "You're out there helping the homeless and all they're doing is penalising you..."

Full details here...

added 11 January 2015  

 
 

MARY BURNS LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE FOR PUBLISHING AND COMMUNITY MEDIA WORK

Star date: 11th January 2015 

SALFORD STAR PARENT COMPANY SHOWCASES MEDIA WORK

Mary Burns, the parent company of the Salford Star, has launched a new website showcasing and highlighting its media work which includes web, brochure and flyer design, magazine creation, media workshops and community media consultation.

As well as the Salford Star, the company does many other projects which the Mary Burns website covers.

Full details here...

added 11 January 2015  

 
 

RHODRI GIGGS TO SPILL BEANS ON RYAN GIGGS SCANDAL

Star date: 10th January 2015

SALFORD BROTHERS SEX SCANDAL TO BE AIRED ON CHANNEL 5

"He'd demolished my family over sex. Well done, cheers bro..." Rhodri Giggs

On Wednesday night, Rhodri Giggs will reveal, for the first time on tv, the truth about how he found out that his wife had been having a secret affair with his own brother, the Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs.

Ryan not only had Rhodri's wife, he also had his former football club, Salford City FC, as part of the Class of '92 takeover...

Full details here...

added 10 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD SIGNS UP FOR DEVO MANC REFERENDUM

Star date: 10th January 2015

SALFORD JOINS GREATER MANCHESTER CALL FOR DEVOLUTION REFERENDUM

All over Greater Manchester today campaigners were out on the streets asking people to sign petitions calling for a referendum on George Osborne's devolution deal which includes the imposition of an elected Mayor.

On Salford Precinct, referendum campaigners told the Salford Star that 70% of people were signing the petitions.

Full details here...

added 10 January 2015  

 
 

PEEL HOLDINGS MOVES INTO FRACKING COMMUNITY CONSENT BUSINESS

Star date: 9th January 2015

PEEL `GAS AND OIL' DIVISION TEAMS UP WITH IGAS ET AL

Peel Holdings – hardly the most popular company in Salford and the North West – is now promoting itself within the fracking industry as being able to help get community consent and licenses for shale gas exploration.

Victoria Merton from Peel Gas and Oil says that the company "has a strong track record in site development and public consenting". Peel tried and failed to get anti-fracking protesters at Barton Moss evicted from its land, while virulent community campaigns against its housing developments have been a feature in Salford over recent years.

Full details here...

added 09 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD MAYOR DISABLED PARKING BAY SCANDAL

Star date: 8th January 2015

CIVIC CENTRE DISABLED BAY DISAPPEARS FOR SALFORD MAYOR'S CAR

Salford City Mayor Ian Stewart today parked his car in a disabled bay in front of the Civic Centre that had its `Disabled' markings crudely painted out. A passer-by who noticed the Mayor's car told the Salford Star, "Disabled people struggle to find parking spaces in Salford but Salford Council can try and cover up parking areas for the Mayor to park...I thought `Is he having a laugh?'"

The Mayor was also slammed as a "disgrace" by campaigners against Council cuts in transport for disabled people who are awaiting the verdict of their legal appeal.

Full details here...

added 08 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD COUNCIL RUSHED CARE VISITS SCANDAL SLATED BY UNISON

Star date: 8th January 2015

HOME CARE WORKERS BEING FORCED TO DELIVER PERSONAL CARE IN 15 MINUTES

Salford City Council is one of many local authorities slated today by public sector trade union, UNISON, for allowing home care workers just fifteen minutes to wash, dress, feed and medicate vulnerable people.

Despite ConDem Government Care Minister Norman Lamb stating last year that fifteen minutes is not enough time for a home care visit, the scandal continues to grow with no statutory crack down in site.

Full details here...

added 08 January 2015  

 
 

GREATER MANCHESTER FIRE, WASTE AND TRANSPORT FAT CATS CREAM OFF £MILLIONS

Star date: 7th January 2014

TRANSPORT, FIRE AND WASTE CHIEFS' HUGE SALARIES

While cuts bite and public sector wages stagnate, Fat Cats in the public sector continue to cream off £millions in huge salaries. Latest figures show the Chief Executive of Transport for Greater Manchester trousering a pay packet of over £275,000, while the retiring Chief Exec and County Fire Officer pulled in over £200,000 last year.

Come see how the other half lives in the Salford Star Fat Cat Watch...

Full details here...

added 07 January 2015  

 
 

GREATER MANCHESTER GROWTH OF FAT CATS ON PUBLICLY FUNDED SALARIES

Star date: 6th January 2015

AS DEVOLUTION COMES TO GREATER MANCHESTER, STUNNING GROWTH IN FAT CATS

As anxiety grows over the imposition of devolution and a Greater Manchester Mayor, the Salford Star can reveal that the number of Fat Cats in the organisations that are overseeing the process has mushroomed.

One person in the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is earning more than £250,000, over double what the highest earner trousered the previous year; while more than ninety people are picking up over £50,000. This Saturday people will be asked to sign petitions calling for a referendum on devolution, including at Salford Precinct.

Full details here...

added 06 January 2015  

 
 

SALFORD COUNCIL ATTACKS HOUSING WAITING LIST POLICY

Star date: 5th January 2015

FAMILIES BACK IN TOWERBLOCKS...PENALTIES TO KICK PEOPLE OFF WAITING LIST

Now that Salford is to have no council housing following the transfer of social housing to Salix Homes, the Council is now intending to slash waiting lists with an attack on its allocations policy – which includes putting families back into towerblocks, new residency tests and penalties which would kick people off the waiting list for twelve months...

Full details here...

added 05 January 2015  

 
 

PENDLETON TOGETHER AND KEEPMOAT WIN SALFORD STAR `LET THEM EAT SANDWICHES’ AWARD

Star date: 4th January 2014

SALFORD STAR MARY BURNS AWARDS 2014 

PENDLETON PFI WINS `SANDWICHES' AWARD FOR TOWERBLOCK REFURB

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the eighth annual Salford Star Mary Burns Awards, which are given out to honour the most deserving individuals and organisations in the city for their stupid statements, dodgy dealings and iffy activities over the past twelve months.

Today we have joint winners of this newly created award, recognising shoddy community relations in the horribly expensive PFI regeneration of Pendleton. So ladies and gentlemen, put on your builders boots and stomp around the psychological wellbeing of residents for the joint winners of the Salford Star Mary Burns `Let Them Eat Sandwiches' Award...Pendleton Together and Keepmoat!

Full details here...

added 04 January 2015  

 
 

THE DISGRACEFUL DISGUSTING URBAN SPLASH IN SALFORD AWARD

Star date: 3rd January 2014

SALFORD STAR MARY BURNS AWARDS 2014 

URBAN SPLASH WINS DISGRACE AWARD FOR UPSIDE DOWN HOUSES

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the eighth annual Salford Star Mary Burns Awards, which are given out to honour the most deserving individuals and organisations in the city for their stupid statements, dodgy dealings and iffy activities over the past twelve months.

As we hit the final few awards of this year's ceremony, perennial winners Urban Splash feature once again for its shocking work on the upside down Chimney Pot Park houses in Langworthy. So ladies and gentlemen, expose your Bloxhams for the winner of the Disgraceful Disgusting Urban Splash Award, er, Urban Splash!

Full details here...

added 03 January 2015  

 
 

FIVE RUBBISH GMP ARRESTS AT SALFORD BARTON MOSS ANTI-FRACKING PROTESTS

Star date: 2nd January 2015

TEA, DOUGHNUTS AND SCHOOL PROJECT ARRESTS AT BARTON MOSS

One of the biggest stories in Salford last year was the daily anti-fracking protests at Barton Moss, which led to a ridiculous amount of arrests for charges that have mostly been thrown out of court. In January the remaining court cases are to be heard with the promise of some explosive revelations.

In the meantime, the Salford Star gives you the five most rubbish arrests at Barton Moss by Greater Manchester Police – tea and doughnuts anyone?

Full details here...

added 02 January 2015  

 
 

NINE THOUSAND SALFORD PEOPLE GAGGED HAPPY NEW YEAR 1984

Star date: 1st January 2015

SALFORD COUNCIL GAGS ALL EMPLOYEES FOR 2015 – OR 1984

Salford Council, under the leadership of Strategic Assistant Mayor Paul Dennett, now has a policy of gagging all of its 8,890 employees both in work and outside in their private lives, and on Facebook, Twitter or any `discussion forum'.

The Thought Police policy aims to "prohibit conduct which conflicts with an employee's duty of loyalty..." and the gagging order includes staff who are trade union representatives, local residents or even members of a local action group. Welcome to 2015 – or is it 1984?

Full details here...

added 01 January 2015  

 
 

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