Salford City 3 Leigh Genesis 3

Leigh Genesis - going for promotion in the Unibond First Division North, unbeaten in 20 million games, and without a goal scored against them in six and a half hours of football - nearly came a cropper at Salford City last night, as the Ammies hit three past them in a fantastic, pulsating, mud soaked, rain drenched, excitement studded second half…

Even with ex Blackburn Rovers and England contender, Matt Jansen, in their side, Leigh couldn't overcome the mighty Salford.

SALFORD COUNCIL `MISLEADS' PRESS

In the latest twist to the Salford Star funding scandal, Salford Council is today accused of trying to lead the national press up the garden path to a place where pigs fly over Salford Precinct.

As the story of Salford Council banning the community from funding the Salford Star has grown nationally over the last few days, Salford Council has put out a press statement which is misleading in the extreme...

SALFORD YOUTH COUNCIL CONDEMNS DECISION ON SALFORD STAR FUNDING…

In response to Salford City Council banning the community from funding the Salford Star, Salford Youth Council last night passed an emergency motion condemning the decision - vowing to boycott the Council's Life In Salford magazine on the grounds that it is "unfairly biased" and produced at an "obscenely high cost"

Rachel Cavendish, co-chair of the Salford Youth Council, said that the denial of funding for the Salford Star… "has clearly been influenced by those who wish to censor freedom of speech… It is crucial young people stand up to this type of censorship and are made aware of the actions of the city council. This is a disgrace"

SALFORD COUNCIL BANS COMMUNITY FROM FUNDING SALFORD STAR… as freedom of speech goes out of the window.

Salford's community has been banned from financially supporting the Salford Star to get the magazine back into print.

Salford Council and its legal team has instructed representatives from the community who are responsible for handing out grants to community groups that they would be "breaking the law" if the Salford Star received any funding -  because it "tends to criticise authority, in particular singling out Salford Council and individual councillors"

SALFORD BRANCH OF FRIENDS OF THE EARTH LAUNCHES

Salford is getting its own branch of Friends of the Earth, with a public launch next Monday 29th March 7pm at the Queens Arms Hotel in Winton.

With Peel Holdings having submitted a planning application for 350 homes on its Burgess Farm site in Walkden, an incinerator being planned for Winton, and all sorts of trashing of green belt land on Chat Moss coming up, Salford is going to be an eco battleground.

The launch of Salford Friends of the Earth is well timed...

Monday 29th March 7pm at the Queens Arms Hotel, Green Lane, Winton, Eccles M30 OSH

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At last! Salford City have got the win that their recent play deserves. In a pulsating, exciting night at Moor Lane, the Ammies not only beat but outplayed third in the table Colwyn Bay to grab three precious points.

Anti Fascist Arrested In Bolton `For Reading Out A Message From TUC'

…Home Searched Without Warrant… Documents Copied From Computer…
National Union of Journalists Accuse Police of `Outrageous Violation of Human Rights'…

Human rights campaigner Rhetta Moran - who appeared in issue 5 of Salford Star, accusing Salford Council of `trying to destroy me' - was arrested by a police snatch squad in Bolton last Saturday at the protest against the English Defence League's presence in the town.

According to Dave Toomer of the National Union of Journalists, whilst Rhetta was detained for ten hours by the police, her house keys were confiscated, her home was searched without a warrant and documents were copied from her computer…

THE CORRIE HORROR SHOW

Splintered, a new horror film made by Salford based production company Not A Number, is being featured on episodes of Coronation Street this Friday.

Corrie characters, Sian, Sophie, Ryan and Lee, are shown watching the scary movie on DVD and discussing its horrid details as the tension cranks up in the room…

SALFORD KIDS DISCOVER LEGOLAND

Children from Barton Moss Primary School in Eccles previewed the new Legoland Discovery Centre at the Trafford Centre last Friday and gave it the thumbs up.

The new attraction, which features a 4-D cinema, a laser shooting game and two million Lego bricks, opens tomorrow and is the first Legoland Discovery Centre in the UK.

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GASCOIGNED!

Two goals in the last five minutes saw Bamber steal a win they didn't merit in a million years. Salford City was robbed…

…robbed…robbed…robbed…

…robbed…robbed…robbed….robbed.

And…Bamber Bridge hasn't even got a proper soddin' bridge…

SALIX SPENDS MORE ON MANAGEMENT THAN REPAIRS

Salix Homes, the arms length Salford Council company that manages social rent homes, spends almost £2million more on management fees than house repairs, a Council report has disclosed this week.

According to the last Salix accounts, the Chief Executive and three Executive Officers received £375,331 between them in `aggregate emoluments' in 2009. Meanwhile, almost 60% of Salix housing is officially projected not to meet the Government's decent housing standards this year…

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HILLBILLY HEIST

Another game, another draw, another team escapes the claws of Salford City when they should have been mauled like an old possum.

`SALFORD PEOPLE NOT CYNICAL ABOUT MEDIACITYUK' SAYS MANDELSON…

On a visit to MediaCityUK last Friday, Government Business Secretary Lord Peter Mandelson told Salford Star that Salford people are not cynical about MediaCityUK…as he defended the strange financial relationship between Peel Holdings and North West Development Agency, and argued that thousands of jobs are already being created for Salford people by the project.

A Salford Star Exclusive

MODELLING FUTURE EMPLOYMENT GARB FOR SALFORDIANS

Last Friday Lord Peter Mandelson came to MediaCityUK promising thousands of jobs for Salfordians.

BBC Cameramen? Directors? Film Makers? Here the new Salford work clothes are modelled by someone very special. Who is it?

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Salford City's long wait for a win at home continues as Warrington Town became yet another team to escape Moor Lane with a point despite being battered.

Rhodri Giggs' zillionth goal of the season just wasn't enough to seal the points.

MARY BURNS ON THE PRECINCT

Salford Precinct, spiritual shopping homeland for proper Salford people, has been flogged off to secretive Isle of Man developers for £40million.

The last owners, Prime Commercial Properties, couldn't wait to get the place off their hands when plans for a huge Tesco superstore based across the road were announced last year. So why the sale?

Come with this cynical old fishwife, gaze into my crystal ball and see the future of Salford Shopping City – to give it its posh name…

MARY BURNS ON THE PRECINCT

Salford Precinct, spiritual shopping homeland for proper Salford people, has been flogged off to secretive Isle of Man developers for £40million.

The last owners, Prime Commercial Properties, couldn't wait to get the place off their hands when plans for a huge Tesco superstore based across the road were announced last year. So why the sale?

Come with this cynical old fishwife, gaze into my crystal ball and see the future of Salford Shopping City – to give it its posh name…

COVENANT `COULD PREVENT STADIUM PLANS TAKING PLACE'

As Salford Council announces formal plans to form a joint venture company  with Peel Holdings to build the £26million Salford City Reds' rugby stadium, we can reveal that the ground is slap bang in the middle of land which has a covenant on it restricting its use to `public open space'.

A Salford Council report states that "part of the site is subject to a restrictive covenant which could prevent the proposed development taking place"…

AMERICAN TRIBUTE TO NEW ORDER HELPS SALFORD FOUNDATION

A new double CD tribute to New Order, featuring 32 cover versions of the top band's tracks by the likes of Detachments, John Ralston and Sunbears!, has been released by American label 24HourServiceStation.

The double CD, which features a spoken track by Peter Hook, is in memory of Factory Records guru Tony Wilson, and a portion of the proceeds will go to The Salford Foundation Trust's Tony Wilson Awards which helps creative local kids.

SALFORD QUESTION TIME TONIGHT 7pm-8:30pm

Salford Council Leader John Merry, University Vice Chancellor Martin Hall  and candidates for the General election are amongst those taking part in tonight's Salford Question Time at Salford Arts Theatre. Anyone can participate and ask questions on the economy and employment.

Tickets are free, there are some left but they must be booked in advance.

Ordsall Colgate Factory Toilets Star in Film

The toilets at the old Colgate Factory on Ordsall Lane have become the location for a new short film called Bog Standard, set in a loo.

The ten minute comedy is sure to put the Colgate Factory on the map, before it becomes part of the new `Ordsall Waterfront' plan.

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The Great Train Robbery

The Thomas The Tankers from Yorkshire escaped Moor Lane with a draw last night after being railroaded back into their own penalty area for much of the second half.

LIFE THROUGH THE LENS
Snapshots of Salford's Past
Salford Museum and Art Gallery

Celebrating ten years of the Council's ace Life Times project comes an equally top photographic exhibition that links the City's past with its present, complete with a giant camera, a mock up of a photographer's studio, a DIY shadow puppet show and rats all over the place for the kids to spot.

Not to be missed.

Peter Hook: An Evening Of Unknown Pleasures.
Saturday 1st May The Lowry

New Order, Joy Division, Hacienda – he's done the DJing, done the film, done the book, done the club. Now Hooky's going live on tour around the UK talking the talk, being quizzed, playing the bass and showing films and memorabilia, all compered by top ex dope dealer Howard Marks.

It's all coming to home town Salford on May Day…

Clitheroe 2 Salford City 0

Salford City's revival ground to a halt today against another hill team – must be the altitude, the geen striped shirts or something…

BARTON MOSS GREEN BELT EXPLOITATION `TO BE SHELVED'…

Campaigners against Salford Council's proposals to hand over 40 hectares of green belt land in Irlam for industrial warehousing are celebrating tonight after the Council's head of planning, Derek Antrobus, said that he might do a u-turn.

But is it for real or is the fact that there's a local election around the corner playing a part in all this?

Just Kath Hits Unsigned Final

Kath Edmonds, a former Salford University student, has reached the final of the 2010 Live and Unsigned contest, and competes against lots of other finalists this Sunday, March 7th at The Willows on Weaste Lane.

A THIRD OF HOMES IN SALFORD NON DECENT…
"1 in 3 homes in Salford are in poor condition" Audit Commission
 …and almost 12,000 homes contain `Category 1 Hazards'

Almost 29,000 houses in Salford, around a third of the city's total homes, are not decent to live in. Despite hundreds of millions of pounds of public `regeneration' money being poured into the city, thousands of Salford people are living in homes that don't meet the Government's own standards for decency - `warm, weatherproof and having reasonably modern facilities.'

A few years ago, the Council itself introduced a `Salford Standard' which rated above basic decency levels and, from statistics provided by Registered Social Landlords and the Council, no socially rented homes in the city currently either meet or are measured against this standard…

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AMMIES ROAR BACK!

Salford City stuffed the Scousers last night to record a fifth away win of the season and ease any fears of relegation. In the process, two Prescot goalies got sent off...

SALFORD COUNCIL SPENDING OVER £40,000 ON WATER COOLERS

Following `Biscuitgate' when Salford Council revealed that it has been spending over £30,000 on drinks and biscuits per year, now comes `Watergate'…

The Council has revealed that it is spending £40,378 a year on water coolers, including over £6000 a year on plastic water cooler bottles.

SALFORD STAR IN LIVE ELECTION SPECIAL

Round 1: Thursday 4th March 7pm-8:30pm
Salford Arts Theatre, Kemsing Walk, off Liverpool St, Salford M5 4BS
Subject: Housing and the Environment
Tickets are free but must be booked in advance.

Councillors Robin Garrido (Tory), Pat Ryan (Labour), Norman Owen (Lib Dem), plus Stephen Kingston (Salford Star) and Liz Richardson (Manchester Met University).

Over the next five weeks a Question Time type event comes to Salford Arts Theatre with a panel answering questions from the audience, like the tv version. The Salford Star is taking part in the first event, along with councillors from the main political parties, and the subject is housing and the environment.