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CHANCE TO BE IN THE AUDIENCE AS BBC THE BIG QUESTIONS COMES TO SALFORD

Star date: 29th February 2020

THE BIG QUESTIONS COMES TO OASIS ACADEMY MEDIACITYUK

The BBC's flagship ethical and moral debate programme, The Big Questions, is being filmed at Oasis Academy on Sunday 8th March for a live broadcast with Nicky Campbell. The production company is looking for people to be in the audience and take part in the show.

Full details here...

added 29 February 2020

WIN SALFORD CITY FC VIP PARKING SPACE, TICKETS AND TOUR FOR WEMBLEY FINAL

Star date: 29th February 2020

LEASING.COM TROPHY FINAL TICKETS, PARKING SPACE AND WEMBLEY TOUR

Leasing.com, the sponsor of the Leasing.com Trophy, is offering Salford City FC fans the chance to win two VIP hospitality places for the Wembley final against Portsmouth, which includes tickets to the game, one Loyalty Parking space, a signed team shirt and a private tour of Wembley.

Full details here...

added 29 February 2020

SALFORD ARTISTS TAKE PART IN EARTS FETE 2020

Star date: 29th February 2020

EUROPIA ARTS COLLECTIVE CELEBRATES FIRST BIRTHDAY WITH MAJOR EVENT

EARTS Fête 2020
Sunday 8th March 2pm-4pm/6pm-9pm
Whitworth Locke, Manchester. Pay what you decide

The Europia Art Collective consists of 18 artists from mainland Europe and includes two Salford artists, Magdalena Kij and Miroslaw Ogorzalek, originally from Poland, who will be joining a day of events at Whitworth Locke hotel to celebrate the organisation's first anniversary.

Full details here...

added 29 February 2020

CLIMATE CAMPAIGNERS WARN OF GATHERING STORM OVER MANCHESTER AIRPORT EXPANSION

Star date: 28th February 2020

AFTER HEATHROW RUNWAY DECISION CAMPAIGNERS TURN ATTENTION TO MANCHESTER AIRPORT

In the wake of a court ruling that Heathrow's plan to build a third runway is unlawful, Greater Manchester Climate Action Network has issued a statement warning of "a gathering storm for the aviation industry" and calling on Manchester Airport and its shareholders, which include Salford City Council, "to reconsider any such growth in aviation" as it will not be compatible with the UK's legal obligations under the Climate Change Act.

Full details here...

added 28 February 2020

SALFORD COUNCIL SEES HUGE GREENGATE APPLICATION FOR TOWERS, PARK AND 1500 PROPERTIES BUT NONE AFFORDABLE

Star date: 27th February 2020

THREE TOWERS, ONE PARK, 1500 PROPERTIES – NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Next week, the Salford City Council planning panel will consider an application from AQ Investments for a huge development in Greengate consisting of a new park and public square, plus three residential towers up to fifty storeys high containing up to 1,521 properties – none of which will be affordable, despite the Council's 'refreshed' planning policy. Neither has the applicant's 'viability appraisal' been published.

Meanwhile a 17 storey block of 115 flats on Queen Street in Blackfriars by Fred Done's Salboy will provide 10% affordable housing rather than 20%.

Full details here...

added 27 February 2020

SWEARING SALFORD COUNCILLOR REFERRED TO CHIEF WHIP AS BUDGET PASSED AND CARE WORKERS SEE PAY RISE

Star date: 26th February 2020

CARE WORKERS TO GET PAY RISE FROM OCTOBER...AS NO CUTS BUDGET PASSED

At today's meeting of Salford City Council, a no cuts budget was passed, the Mayor announced a pay rise for care workers in October...and Conservative councillor Karen Garrido announced that she would not sit in a room with swearing Labour Councillor Mike McCusker if he wasn't 'sorted out'. In response the Mayor said that he had been referred to the Labour Party's Chief Whip.

Full details here...

added 26 February 2020

SALFORD CITY COUNCIL FACES LEGAL CHALLENGE OVER SWINTON PARK GOLF CLUB

Star date: 25th February 2020

STRANGE COURSE OF ACTION AT SWINTON PARK GOLF CLUB

Salford Council is facing a legal challenge from the current owners of Swinton Park Golf Club over its decision to include the site as an Asset of Community Value back in November.

In a strange turn of events, the Council is considering a new application for the same designation even though it believes that the original decision was valid...just in case the "original decision/communication is not found to be valid". Curiouser and curiouser...

Full details here...

added 25 February 2020

PLANS REVEALED FOR FRED DONE SALFORD DEVELOPMENT AT CASTLE IRWELL

Star date: 24th February 2020

NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN SITE AT CASTLE IRWELL

Fred Done's Salboy company has begun consulting on its plans for five hundred properties and an allocated space for a school on the site of the old Castle Irwell student village. Phase One will see 158 homes built but nowhere does it states whether they will be affordable or not.

Phase One will also include 'public realm, road infrastructure, boundary wall improvements and the renovation of the locally listed Turnstile Building'...

Full details here...

added 24 February 2020

SALFORD LABOUR COUNCILLOR IN FURTHER SOCIAL MEDIA INDISCRETION

Star date: 23rd February 2020

COUNCILLOR WHO NEEDS AN ASTERISK PERMANENTLY ABOVE HIS HEAD

Senior Labour Councillor, Mike McCusker, already in hot water over his 'Tory pigs' comment last week, could find himself again falling foul of the Salford Monitoring Officer, as a new social media post has emerged with him swearing like a trouper at Irish Fine Gael politicians.

While the Salford Councillor has apologised over what he calls 'Pig Gate', there was "No apologies to you t***s" this time!"

Full details here..

added 23 February 2020

SALFORD CITY FC FANS CAN WIN WEMBLEY TICKETS AND LEASING.COM TROPHY

Star date: 23rd February 2020

WIN VIP TICKETS, CHANCE TO BE A MASCOT AND LEASE THE LEASING.COM TROPHY

After beating Newport County on penalties the other night, Salford City will be heading to Wembley to play Portsmouth in the final of the Leasing.com Trophy on 5th April.

Leasing.com is offering Ammies fans the chance to win VIP tickets for the final, for those aged 10 and under to be a mascot, and the chance to 'lease' the Leasing.com Trophy and host it at their home, workplace, local club or school.

Full details here...

added 23 February 2020

DISCO AND HOUSE NIGHT AT THE OLD LAUNDRETTE ECCLES

Star date: 22nd February 2020

NEW MONTHLY CLUB NIGHT COMES TO SALFORD

The Loft Sessions
Saturday 29th February from 10pm
The Old Laundrette Free before 11pm, £5 after

A new monthly club night begins at The Old Laundrette in Eccles next Saturday, with DJ Push Continue playing disco, house and minimal. Entrance is free before 11pm.

Full details here...

added 22 February 2020

SALFORD LABOUR COUNCILLOR TO BE INVESTIGATED OVER ‘TORY PIGS’ COMMENT

Star date: 21st February 2020

TORIES PUT IN FORMAL COMPLAINT AGAINST COUNCILLOR MIKE MCCUSKER

Senior Labour Councillor, Mike McCusker, is in hot water over a 'Tory pigs' comment posted on social media. Salford Conservative Leader Councillor Les Turner told the Salford Star that the party has put in a formal complaint...

"In my 14 years on the Council I can't remember any Labour councillor addressing the opposition in that way, certainly not on a public forum" he said.

Full details here...

added 21 February 2020

HUGE SHOCKING HEALTH GAP FOR SALFORD CHILDREN WHEN THEY RETIRE

Star date: 20th February 2020

CHILDREN IN WANDSWORTH WILL HAVE OVER TEN YEARS MORE DISABILITY FREE TIME THAN IN SALFORD

New research published today by The Centre for Ageing Better reveals what the organisation calls 'unacceptable' inequalities in how long, and how healthily, babies born today in different parts of England can expect to live. And Salford kids could be on track for a retirement spent in ill-health and disability.

Babies born in Wandsworth can expect to live disability free over ten years longer than babies in Salford, the statistics show, as there are calls for the Government to take action.

Full details here...

added 20 February 2020

SALFORD COUNCIL TAX RISE OF OVER £100 FOR BAND E HOUSES

Star date: 19th February 2020

NO CUTS BUDGET BUT IS THERE AN ELECTION IN THE AIR?

Salford City Council is set to pass a no cuts budget next week as part of a three year Medium Term Financial Strategy that will mean no cuts until 2022. But the Council states that "It is likely that the working forecast will change, possibly quite dramatically, over time". Cynics might argue that there's a massive Mayor and Council election coming up in May which could have something to do with it.

Meanwhile, Council Tax rises will see properties in Band E and above paying over £100 more a year.

Full details here...

added 19 February 2020

BATTLE TO SAVE SWINTON PARK GOLF CLUB AS £10MILLION BID LODGED

Star date: 18th February 2020

PUBLIC MEETING HEARS CITY MAYOR DRAW BATTLE LINES

Last night, at a packed public meeting of the Save Swinton Park Golf Club campaign, Salford City Mayor, Paul Dennett, warned of a potential planning battle over the current recreational designation of Club's site.

The meeting had heard that Nuvu, a private arm of social housing company, Your Housing, had tendered an unconditional offer of £10million for the Club, following the withdrawal of a conditional £30million offer from Bellway Homes.

Full details here...

added 18 February 2020

SALFORD CITY COUNCIL SET TO APPROVE £4.7MILLION SUBSIDY FOR UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING

Star date: 17th February 2020

COUNCIL SET TO APPROVE OUTRAGEOUS SUBSIDY FOR ENGLISH CITIES FUND

Salford City Council is set to approve an outrageous £4.752million subsidy to the English Cities Fund, or ECf, to build a 23 storey block of apartments off Stanley Street that will feature 'no affordable housing'.

The ECf, is a partnership that includes the financially massive Legal and General company and Muse Developments, and the funding is coming from the Development Trust Account which was supposed to help build affordable housing.

Full details here...

added 17 February 2020

THE LITTLE GREEN DELI OPENS ON THE HEIGHT IN SALFORD

Star date: 16th February 2020

GIN, CAKES AND EVENTS SET FOR LITTLE GREEN DELI

The Little Green Deli has opened on Bolton Road, Irlams o' th' Height, initially as a small bar selling locally sourced drinks, before launching into day time coffee, cakes and food, and eventually book clubs and events.

"Everyone who has come in has said it's what the Height has needed for years, a little bar" says owner Amy Shields "I'm just following my dream..."

Full details here...

added 16 February 2020

GET HELP KNIFE CRIME DRAMA AT SALFORD ARTS THEATRE

Star date: 15th February 2020

COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE OF KNIFE CRIME DRAMA

#GetHelp
Thursday 20th February 5pm
Salford Arts Theatre £1/under 18s free

John O'Neill's acclaimed knife crime drama, #GetHelp, is being staged this Thursday for a special community performance at Salford Arts Theatre.

Full details here...

added 15 February 2020

SWINTON PARK GOLF CLUB POTENTIAL SALE AS PUBLIC MEETING CALLED

Star date: 15th February 2020

HOUSING STILL ON THE CARDS AT SALFORD GOLF CLUB

Save Swinton Park Gold Club Public Meeting
Monday 17th February 7pm
St Luke's Church Hall, Swinton

Campaigners trying to Save Swinton Park Golf Club have learnt that the current directors of the Club have agreed sell to a subsidiary of Your Housing for £10million and have called a public meeting for this Monday.

Full details here...

added 15 February 2020

OVER 24,000 BUS LANE CONTRAVENTIONS IN SALFORD

Star date: 14th February 2020

AS MORE BUS LANES BUILT IN SALFORD THERE'S MORE 'CONTRAVENTIONS'

Between April 2018 and October 2019, there were 24,483 bus lane 'contraventions' validated in Salford with the number of bus lane cameras increasing from three to five in the city.

Salford City Council, which has brought bus lane enforcement back in-house over the period, calls the project a 'success'...

Full details here...

added 14 February 2020

£100,000 RENT RISE FOR GM MAYOR AND GMCA HQ IN MANCHESTER

Star date: 13th February 2020

CHURCHGATE HOUSE HQ RENT TO INCREASE BY £100,000 PER YEAR!

Churchgate House on Oxford Road, Manchester, is the HQ of both the Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and was chosen in 2016 to re-house staff as it was the cheapest option. However, new budget figures from the GMCA reveal that the rent is about to rise by an estimated £100,000 per year.

Meanwhile, the GM Mayor Election, set for May this year, will be costing in the region of £4million.

Full details here...

added 13 February 2020

NEW BUS LANE OUTSIDE SALFORD CIVIC CENTRE PLUS ALMOST £20MILLION OF WORKS TO TRAFFORD ROAD

Star date: 12th February 2020

CHORLEY ROAD TO SEE NEW BUS LANE

A new dedicated bus lane is to be created along Chorley Road in Swinton, outside the Civic Centre, together with an 'upgrade' of the junction with Station Road and an 'upgrade' of the junction with Wellington Road. It's part of the SBNI programme, which will also include improvements to Madams Wood Road and the East Lancs - Lancaster Road junction.

Meanwhile, Trafford Road near Media City is braced for almost £20million worth of works.

Full details here...

added 12 February 2020

REBECCA LONG BAILEY SAYS IT’S NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR HER TO ATTACK SALFORD COUNCIL

Star date: 11th February 2020

SALFORD MP IN U-TURN ON ATTACKING LABOUR COUNCIL

Salford and Eccles MP and Labour Party leadership contender, Rebecca Long Bailey, told a hustings audience in Nottingham that "It's not acceptable to attack Labour councils if you are a Labour MP".

This appears to go completely against what she told the Salford Star the week before she got elected as an MP in 2015 and said: "I have my own principles and morals, and I would make moral judgements on certain issues. If it meant going to face the Council, a councillor or the Mayor that's what I would have to do..."

Full details here...

added 11 February 2020

16,000 SALFORD PEOPLE AGE 65 AND OVER AT RISK OF LONELINESS

Star date: 10th February 2020

44% OF SALFORD ELDERLY AT RISK OF LONELINESS

16,000, or 44%, of Salford people aged 65 or over live in areas most at risk of loneliness according to Age UK mapping, while the office of National Statistics puts Salford as being the 16th worst local authority area in this respect.

According to the Age UK map, the elderly are deemed to be at 'very high risk' of loneliness in areas including Weaste, Pendlebury and Little Hulton.

Full details here...

added 10 February 2020

SALFORD VERY CLOSE TO FLOODING AS COMMUNITY TOLD TO BE VIGILANT

Star date: 9th February 2020

COMMUNITY FEARED REPEAT OF 2015 BOXING DAY FLOOD

Lower Broughton, Lower Kersal and Charlestown had flood warnings from the Environment Agency this afternoon as water levels of the River Irwell began rising rapidly, just a few feet from breaking its banks in some areas.

With both flood basins in Lower Kersal open and working, the river was said to have reached its peak at 2:30pm, although resident Keri Muldoon of the Broughton Flood Group told the Salford Star "We still have to be aware of what's going to come down from thirty miles away, and we've got to keep our eye out for the rain that's still got to come as well. This is not going away overnight. Be vigilant."

Full details here...

added 09 February 2020

SALFORD FLOOD WARNING IN PLACE

Star date: 9th February 2020

LOWER KERSAL, BROUGHTON AND CHARLESTOWN FLOOD WARNING

Flood warnings are in place for Kersal, Charlestown and Broughton as the level of the Irwell River rises sharply.

"We believe there is a possibility of flooding for some properties in Lower Kersal, Lower Broughton and the Charleston Area" states the Flood Information Service

Full details here...

added 09 February 2020

MEETING TO DEMAND REAL LIVING WAGE FOR SALFORD CARE WORKERS

Star date: 9th February 2020

REAL LIVING WAGE NOT WRITTEN INTO SALFORD COUNCIL CARE CONTRACTS

While Salford City Council has been making a big play on its Living Wage City status, companies contracted by the Council and Salford Clinical Commissioning Group for adult social care are largely not paying their workers the Real Living Wage.

Next Saturday 15th February between 11am and 1pm, care workers with Salford City UNISON are holding a public meeting at Gilda Brook Social Club in Eccles to launch a campaign to get the Real Living Wage.

Full details here...

added 09 February 2020

THE LAST QUIZ NIGHT ON EARTH TAKES PLACE IN SALFORD

Star date: 8th February 2020

PRE-APOCALYPTIC COMEDY DRAMA AT THE WELCOME INN, ORDSALL

The Last Quiz Night On Earth
Tuesday 11th - Saturday 15th February 7:30pm
Welcome Inn £12

It's the end of the world and the last night on earth as an asteroid is heading straight for us, but deep in Ordsall Quizmaster Rav is hosting the The Last Quiz Night On Earth – a new immersive comedy drama by Alison Carr in association with The Lowry.

Full details here...

added 08 February 2020

SALFORD HAS SMALLER PERCENTAGE ALCOHOL RELATED HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS RISE THAN MOST OF NORTH WEST

Star date: 7th February 2020

SALFORD 11% RISE IN ALCOHOL RELATED HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS

Salford has had an 11% rise in alcohol-related NHS hospital admissions over the last six years – which is one of the lowest percentage rises in the whole North West.

This week, the NHS revealed that in 2018 almost 200,000 people were admitted to hospitals across the North West because of alcohol, with Salford still contributing a hefty 7,910 patients.

Full details here...

added 07 February 2020

DANGEROUSLY CLADDED SALFORD BLOCKS TO SEE RENT RISE AND SERVICE CHARGE INCREASE

Star date: 6th February 2020

RENT RISE FOR PENDLETON BLOCKS

Residents living in the Pendleton blocks still covered in dangerous cladding are to see rent rises of 2.7%, while average service charges will rise 4.2% for high rise blocks and 8.71% for low rises. Inflation is currently less than 2%.

While the charges increase, there is still nothing happening about the Grenfell-style cladding with... "a programme of works to be produced following the evaluation of tender submissions from contractors" states the latest Salford City Council report.

Full details here...

added 06 February 2020

GREATER MANCHESTER FIRE SERVICE CUTS STILL ‘UNSAFE’ SAYS FIREFIGHTERS UNION

Star date: 5th February 2020

AS GM MAYOR BURNHAM DEFERS SOME CUTS TO FIRE SERVICE, THE FBU CONDEMNS 'UNSAFE', 'DEPLETED SERVICE'

Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, has deferred some cuts to the fire service through adding an additional £6.25 increase to the Mayoral Precept within the Council Tax.

But a letter to firefighters from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) seen by the Salford Star, states that that "these apparent concessions are only guaranteed for the next financial year, and will leave 'fire cover' across Greater Manchester depleted and our members forced to crew appliances at levels known to be unsafe by the FBU..."

Full details here...

added 05 February 2020

SALFORD COUNCIL TAX TO RISE BY 4% AS ‘NO CUTS’ BUDGET DECLARED

Star date: 4th February 2020

SALFORD COUNCIL TAX SET TO RISE BY 4% - WITHOUT THE GM MAYOR ADD-ONS

Council Tax bills in Salford are set to rise by 4% from April, with an extra 2% for adult social care and a 2% core increase. This is without Andy Burnham's GM Mayor 'precept' that will increase tax by £14 per year in Band D properties.

The Council states that, as a result of this, increased Government funding and other 'savings' it will pass a 'no cuts budget', although details are incredibly sparse.

Full details here...

added 04 February 2020

SALFORD CITY COUNCIL SETS £1.2MILLION ASIDE FOR BUILE HILL MANSION

Star date: 3rd February 2020

£1.2MILLION FOR MANSION – BUT DOES IT BRING RESTORATION ANY CLOSER?

Salford City Council has set aside £1.225million for the Grade 2 listed Buile Hill Mansion in its 2020-21 capital budget, but it won't cover the estimated £5million full cost of restoring the building that has been derelict for twenty years.

The Council has also put aside £2.220million for its Embankment office block near Manchester Cathedral, £3.397million for its Derive housing company and £22.237million for 'housing development and delivery'.

Full details here...

added 03 February 2020

YOUNG SALFORD SINGER SONGWRITER AMBER CALISE COMING THROUGH

Star date: 2nd February 2020

'ED SHEERAN IN A SKIRT...'

Teenage Amber Calise has already parted ways with her band to follow a solo career, with her first track Memories now out. The ambition, says her manager dad, is to be like 'Ed Sheeran in a skirt'...

The Salford singer songwriter is now emerging as a new talent in the city but is still too young to play many venues.

Full details here...

added 02 February 2020

ANDY BRIDES WINS SALFORD STAR BEST ACT AWARD

Star date: 2nd February 2020

ANDY BRIDES WINS BEST ACT AWARD

The fourth and final Salford Star Award has been won by singer songwriter Andy Brides, who has scooped the Best Act Award primarily for his EP Worth The Night which, in the words of Live Editor Ian Lesley, "showcased the creative talent of a great songwriter with smart, honest and emotive tunes".

Full details here...

added 02 February 2020

SALFORD OPEN MIC AFTERNOON AT GILDA BROOK SOCIAL CLUB

Star date: 1st February 2020

OPEN MIC ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Tomorrow afternoon, Sunday 2nd February, live music Open Mic returns to the Gilda Brook Social Club in Eccles, starting at 3pm with host Paul Wright.

Full details here...

added 01 February 2020

GETTING THE THIRD DEGREE WINS SALFORD STAR BEST PLAY AWARD

Star date: 1st February 2020

DOUGIE BLAXLAND WINS BEST PLAY FOR LAURIE CUNNINGHAM DRAMA

Dougie Blaxland has won the Salford Star Best Play Award for his drama, Getting The Third Degree, centring on unique footballer Laurie Cunnigham, which was staged at Salford Arts Theatre last year.

Salford Star Live Editor, Ian Leslie, applauds the play as 'a sensational piece of theatre' that 'beautifully celebrated the life of Laurie Cunningham', and was a 'popular winner with our readers'.

Full details here...

added 01 February 2020

JAMES SHINNY DAVENPORT WINS SALFORD STAR AWARD

Star date: 1st February 2020

SHINNY WINS STAR AWARD

James 'SHINNy' Davenport has won the Salford Star Award for 2019, for an array of projects ranging from his live social media SHINNy SHOW, to the trailer for a film dealing with addiction and its fall-out.

Salford Star Live Editor, Ian Leslie, applauds SHINNy's 'heart-on-the-sleeve openness when discussing his demons', as he acclaims the 'actor, mentor, musician and former sportsman' a worthy winner of this Star Award.

Full details here...

added 01 February 2020

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