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SALFORD SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST

added 29 April 2012

Star date: 29th April 2012

PEEL HOLDINGS EMPEROR JOHN WHITTAKER SEES WEALTH GROW BY £100MILLION

Peel Holdings emperor, John Whittaker, saw his personal wealth grow by £100million last year, which puts him at the 29th richest person in Britain and Ireland, according to The Sunday Times Rich List published today.

Whittaker, who's based in the tax exile country of the Isle of Man, is now said to be personally worth £2.175billion – yet Salford tax payers are still throwing millions of pounds at Peel projects like MediaCityUK, Port Salford and the Salford City Stadium.

HACIENDA 30TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS

added 29 April 2012

Star date 29th April 2012

HOOKY'S HACIENDA DAZE HITS 30 YEARS

Hacienda 30th Birthday Celebrations
2nd May – 4th June
Various venues

In May, it's going to be thirty years since the Hacienda first opened its doors and there's a whole month of parties, exhibitions, auctions and happenings to celebrate the world famous nightclub with huge Salford connections. Plus a celebration clothes collection.

SALFORD SIGHTS FROM THE OTHER CITY

added 29 April 2012

Star date: 29th April 2012

SIGHTS FROM THE OTHER CITY

Fri 4th – Mon 7th May
Various venues around Chapel St

Around the Sounds From The Other City event which happens on Bank Holiday Monday 7th May, Sights From The Other City runs from the Friday to the Monday and features a pop-up shop, ceramics sessions, free print demonstrations and a chance meet the artists in their studios, plus the Kings Arms May Fair and the Wayzgoose Print Fair at Cow Lane on Monday.

AGECROFT COLLIERY SALFORD REMEMBRANCE

added 29 April 2012

Star date: 27th April 2012

AGECROFT MINERS REMEMBERED

International Workers Memorial Day
Saturday 28th April 10am
Agecroft Road

Tomorrow at the entrance to the former Agecroft Colliery there's a short ceremony to remember miners who lost their lives or suffered accidents at the Salford pit, as part of International Workers Memorial Day. There's also the new Irwell Valley Mining Project, set up to form permanent reminders of Salford's miners.

SALFORD STAR MAYORAL CHALLENGE DAY THREE

added 27 April 2012

Star date: 27th April 2012

SALFORD MAYOR CANDIDATES QUESTIONNAIRE: DAY THREE

Part 3 of the Salford Star Mayoral Challenge. Today the candidates give their views on everything from Salford Precinct, to housing to Buile Hill mansion, to transparency and Barbara Spicer. And would they fund the Salford Star?

Click here to find out…

added 27 April 2012

SALFORD STAR MAYORAL CHALLENGE DAY TWO

Star date: 26th April 2012

SALFORD MAYOR CANDIDATES QUESTIONNAIRE: DAY TWO

Part 2 of the Salford Star Mayoral Challenge. Today the candidates give their views on everything from the Salford riots, to Chimney Pot Park, to democracy, Greengate, Chapel Street and, of course, the infamous Higher Kersal Lake project. And would they go to jail to defend Salford?

Click here to find out…

added 26 April 2012

SALFORD MAYOR CANDIDATES MEET THE SALFORD STAR CHALLENGE

Star date: 25th April 2012

SALFORD MAYOR CANDIDATES QUESTIONNAIRE: DAY ONE

A couple of weeks ago the Salford Star sent all ten candidates the Salford Star Mayoral Challenge, thirty probing questions to find out where they stand, what their personality is like and how much they actually know about Salford and its issues.

By last week only three candidates had responded but our `chicken' article pushed three more into responding. See what the six candidates have to say -Out of touch or on the ball? You decide…

Click here for full details…

added 25 April 2012

SALFORD SCHOOLS IN WHOLESALE ACADEMY BID

Star date: 25th April 2012

WHOLESALE PRIVATISATION OF SALFORD SCHOOLS

It's not in any election campaign materials but following Salford Star revelations yesterday about The Albion High and Marlborough Road Primary schools becoming academies, we can reveal that a further five schools have had academy applications approved, while others are bidding to become academies, as the wholesale privatisation of education in Salford begins.

THE ALBION HIGH SCHOOL SALFORD TO BECOME AN ACADEMY

added 25 April 2012

Star date: 24th April 2012

THE ALBION TO BECOME AN ACADEMY

The Albion High School is to become an academy in September this year, which means it will be taken out of the control of Salford City Council. Incredibly there is no information on the Albion's website stating this, nor any statements on Salford Council's website.

When the Salford Star tried to contact John Merry, Leader of Salford City Council and a governor at The Albion, he didn't return our call.

More details here…

added 24 April 2012

SALFORD COUNCIL PRIMARY SCHOOL SCANDAL

Star date: 24th April 2012

CHARLESTOWN PRIMARY TO RE-OPEN? SALFORD COUNCIL ADMITS SHORTAGE OF SCHOOL PLACES AS IT FACES £850,000 BILL…

Rumours are sweeping East Salford that Charlestown Primary School - shut down last year despite parent protests, warnings from the Salford Star and misgivings from the National Schools Adjudicator - is to re-open to cope with a shortage of primary school places in the city.

Salford Council has bulldozed and merged many primary schools in the city creating the crisis, and is now discussing creating two new schools, plus costs of £850,000 or more to fund extra teachers and classes.

SALFORD MAY DAY 2012 RALLY AND MARCH

added 24 April 2012

Star date: 23rd April 2012

SALFORD CELEBRATES MAY DAY AT BEXLEY SQUARE

May Day Rally and March
Monday 7th May
11am Bexley Square
12 March into Manchester

Salford is to celebrate May Day this year with a We Demand A Future rally at Bexley Square, with guest speakers Matt Wrack from the Fire Brigade Union and current Salford Mayor candidate Ian Stewart. It's followed by a march into Manchester for an even bigger rally at Cathedral Gardens.

Star date: 21st April 2012

added 23 April 2012

SALFORD HOPE MIC NIGHT

RAP HIP HOP SONG POETRY AND RNB AT THE HOPE PUB

Hope Mic Night
Hope Pub
Sunday 29th April 7:30pm free

Next Sunday, C.O.M.E. II present an open Mic Night at the Hope pub where anyone can get up and have a go at charming the audience with everything from rap to RnB, from acoustic songs to poetry.

Further details here…

added 22 April 2012

MAXINE PEAKE AT SALFORD BLACK LION PUB

Star date: 22nd April 2012

EDGE PREMIERES FOR KINO AT THE BLACK LION

Edge
The Black Lion
Wednesday 25th April 7:30pm £4/3

Top Salford based actress Maxine Peake is to appear at The Black Lion pub this Wednesday at the North West Premiere of her new film, Edge.

Maxine will be doing a live Question and Answer session after the screening, which takes place in Kino's cinema lounge upstairs at the Chapel Street pub.

SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY SALFORD 2012

added 22 April 2012

Star date: 21st April 2012

CHAPEL STREET BANK HOLIDAY MUSIC EXPERIENCE

Sounds From The Other City
Various venues around Chapel St
Sunday May 6th 3pm til late £18

Sounds From The Other City is Salford's day long showcase of classy bands, acts, writers, theatre, singers and DJs that just don't happen in the mainstream. To say this experience is something completely different is an understatement. Eighty acts at 14 venues, from The Black Lion to St Philip's Church, to The Crescent, The King's Arms and The Salford Arms.

You just buy a wristband which lets you in everywhere, and voyage off to discover new sounds and attitudes…

More details here…

added 21 April 2012

SALFORD MAYOR ELECTION CHICKENS WON’T ANSWER QUESTIONS

Star date: 20th April 2012

DO WE WANT A SALFORD CHICKEN FOR MAYOR?

With the deadline fast approaching, only three of the ten candidates who want our votes in the Mayoral Election have taken the Salford Star Mayoral Challenge – a series of thirty questions about policy, democracy and Salford issues, as well as a couple of fun bits chucked in.

If these candidates won't answer the Salford Star's questions before they are elected, what chance have Salford people got once they are Mayor?

MEDIACITYUK EJECTS SALFORD ELECTION CANDIDATE

added 20 April 2012

Star date: 19th April 2012

ELECTION CANDIDATE BARRED FROM DISTRIBUTING LEAFLETS

Ordsall local election candidate, George Tapp, was yesterday banned from handing out his leaflets to BBC workers at MediaCityUK which is within the Ordsall ward.

Tapp has also been stopped from handing out leaflets by the new Morrison store across Trafford Road where the streets have now been privatised. Is Salford, home of the BBC, now becoming a democracy free zone?

STUDIO SALFORD SCROATS FROM THE UNDERGROUND

added 19 April 2012

Star date: 17th April 2012

RIOTS, SALFORD AND SATAN AT THE KINGS ARMS

Scroats From The Underground
The Bubbler/Stunning The Punters
Kings Arms 18th-21st April 7:30pm £7/£5

Acclaimed playwright Cathy Crabb has her new play The Bubbler opening at the Kings Arms on Wednesday, in a double bill with Robert Sproat's Stunning The Punters. Crabb's play is inspired by the riots, and the kneejerk reaction as seethed through the eyes of Cash Generator's manager.

SALFORD STAR NIGEL PIVARO BACK IN CORONATION STREET

added 17 April 2012

Star date: 16th April 2012

THE RETURN OF TERRY DUCKWORTH

Coronation Street legend and Salford Star contributor, Nigel Pivaro, is back on the cobbles tonight reprising the role of Terry Duckworth. This time Terry returns to open a lap dancing club on the Street, shocking the inhabitants to the core. So how does Nigel feel about being a journalist and being on mainstream tv?

SALFORD SEVENTIES PHOTOS FIND

added 16 April 2012

Star date: 16th April 2012

STEPHEN LORD AMONGST SEVENTIES PHOTOS DISCOVERY

Shameless star, Stephen Lord, is amongst many young Salfordians traced from late 1970s photos which were taken for an exhibition about old Ordsall and Langworthy. Now the original photographer, Phil Portus, is looking to find subjects of other photographs he took at the time for a follow up exhibition.

Full details and more photos here…

added 16 April 2012

SALFORD PHOTO ARCHIVE GIVEAWAY

Star date: 15th April 2012

OLD BROUGHTON AND CENTRAL SALFORD PHOTOS

Paul Dyson's late step-dad, Stan Horrocks, took hundreds of photos of Higher and Lower Broughton, Pendleton and Central Salford between the 1960s and 2005. Now he's making the whole archive available to any Salford people who want to own copies.

RHODRI GIGGS RESIGNS FROM SALFORD CITY

added 15 April 2012

Star date: 15th April 2012

Salford City 3 Ossett Albion 1

GIGGS GOES AS SALFORD CITY END ON A HIGH

Salford City player manager Rhodri Giggs resigned straight after Salford City's last home game of the season yesterday, which the Ammies won 3-1 thanks to a brace from Osebi Abadaki and a chip by Chris Curley.

Rhodri didn't attend the player of the season awards last night - won by Darren Hockenhull and Josh Bardsley.

Full match report, story and photos here…

added 15 April 2012

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SALFORD SLAGS THE SUN

Star date: April 12th 2012

RIP UP MURDOCH'S SUN FOR HILLSBOROUGH JUSTICE

Salford crew, Class Actions, have produced a top diatribe against Rupert Murdoch's The Sun, for the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. The accompanying video shows Liverpool FC fans tearing up the paper outside Anfield...

Full story here…

added 11 April 2012

SALFORD EX OFFENDERS STORM

Star date: 11th April 2012

EX-OFFENDERS WANTED – FOR FILM

Top Salford drama company, Happystorm Theatre, are looking for ex-offenders to take part in a short film which will be created and shot during a week in May.

No experience is necessary, except the experience of going through the criminal justice system...

Full details here…

added 11 April 2012

THE VOICE FROM SALFORD HITS FINAL

Star date: 10th April 2012

DAVID LIVERSIDGE HITS LIVE AND UNSIGNED

Salford's David Liversidge has reached the Regional Final Showcase of the UK's biggest original music competition, Live and Unsigned, which takes place next Saturday 14th April at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Now David, whose songs are showcased by his slick voice, is urging Salford people to come and support him in the live final.

SALFORD CITY ON THE BEACH

added 10 April 2012

Star date: 9th April 2012

Salford City 0 Radcliffe Borough 2

SALFORD SEASON OVER

With four games left, Salford City played out another end of season derby that ended with defeat against local rivals Radcliffe Borough. The small town club, one place below Salford in the league, celebrated like they had just won the World Cup. Meanwhile, in the sheeting rain, Salford players appeared to be already dreaming of a summer at Ordsall beach.

Match report and photos here...

added 10 April 2012

SALFORD CITY SQUEEZE DRAW AT TRAFFORD

Star date: 7th April 2012

Trafford 2 Salford City 2

SALFORD DERBY DAY DRAW

Salford City halted a horrendous run of results with a battling derby day score draw against Trafford, coming back twice from a goal down to grab a much deserved point.

Match report and photos here…

added 08 April 2012

SALFORD MAYOR CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED

Star date: 5th April 2012

TEN SALFORD CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR

Ten people have put their names forward to stand for Mayor of Salford, with the election to take place on 3rd May.

Amongst the usual political parties are two independent candidates - Pat Ward, an ex-Salford Council employee, and, surprisingly, Paul Massey, a well known name on the city's estates.

For the full list click here...

added 04 April 2012

SALFORD MEDIA CITY JOBS EXPOSED

Star date: 4th April 2012

SECURITY, SHOP WORK AND MAKING BEDS...

A new report by Salford City Council shows that even on its own figures Salford people have not been getting decent jobs at MediaCityUK or even at the wider Salford Quays.

At MediaCityUK the vast majority of jobs, as predicted, have been working in security, shops and in part time hotel work. Also, as predicted, the Council report states "A number of companies located at MediaCityUK have re-located from elsewhere and as such have bought a substantial workforce with them"…

SALFORD COUNCIL GIVES THE CITY TO DEVELOPERS

added 04 April 2012

Star date: 2nd April 2012

SALFORD COUNCIL TEARS UP AFFORDABLE HOUSING OBLIGATION FOR DEVELOPERS IN POOR AREAS

Incredibly, Salford Council is proposing to tear up its obligation for developers to provide affordable housing as part of building schemes in the poorest areas of the city.

Until now, developers had to provide 20% affordable housing everywhere in the city where they were building over 25 properties. In the future this won't be the case, as developers cash in to the tune of millions of pounds…