THE QUEEN CHASES SALFORD COUNCIL FOR OVER £500,000

Never mind the summons for your Council Tax, Salford City Council itself is now being chased by `Her Majesty's Court Services' for over half a million quid it owes for five year's rent and stuff on Bexley Square, site of the old Salford Town Hall and now the city's main courthouse.

As Salford Council tries to stop Her Maj merging its courts with Manchester following the no-show of the new Eccles court building, there's the little matter of the £578,468 bill to settle – or the Council could find itself in the court rather than fighting for its survival.

REPORT RECOMMENDING HOPE MATERNITY UNIT SHOULD STAY OPEN WAS `IGNORED' AND CONSULTATION WAS `BIASED'

An official report recommending that Hope Hospital's Maternity Unit should stay open was "ignored" and there was "a clear indication of bias" in the consultation proceedings, according to a new document produced by midwives.

The document states that "there was never a chance of maternity and neonatal services being retained at Hope, from the very start of the consultation process". And, as a result of population increase, it adds, "We judge that the new unit at St Mary's will be barely able to meet the needs of its own population let alone that of Salford…"

KEEP HOPE MATERNITY OPEN RALLY ATTRACTS HUNDREDS

"Why has the almost 100% opposition to this, been arrogantly ignored?" Mike Sweeney

Hundreds of people wearing Born In Salford t-shirts gathered in Buile Hill Park on Saturday to show opposition to plans to shut down the Maternity Unit at Hope Hospital, now called Salford Royal.

Backed by Ryan Giggs, Mike Sweeney, John Thompson and Salford Reds, the campaign is gathering renewed momentum as pressure mounts on the new government to reverse the decision to close Salford's baby unit.

FA CUP COMES TO SALFORD CITY ON TUESDAY

The FA Cup is coming to Moor Lane, home of Salford City FC, on Tuesday night to promote the Ammies' FA Cup tie with Northwich Victoria next Saturday.

Salford City has a league game against Curzon Ashton on Tuesday night and supporters are invited to have their photo taken with the FA Cup before the 7:45pm kick off. Get there very early though because the famous old trophy is off on its travels again at 8pm.

Meanwhile, Salford City, with a patched up team, drew 1-1 with Radcliffe Borough yesterday.

Salford Throws A Party In Broughton

Yesterday, Albert Park in Broughton hosted a top family fun day as the sun shone over Salford. There was everything from donkey rides, to a big wheel, to the brilliant Cirque de Salford.

There were exotic animals to hold, arts and crafts, and loads of stalls, including the popular Re-Tracing Salford stand inviting the community to re-trace the lost streets of Salford.

Salford’s Splintered Gets UK Cinema Release

Stuff your Hollywood big budget blockbusters, Salford based production company Not A Number has just got its first feature film on nationwide cinema release.

Splintered, a psychological thriller with lots of blood and gore, was shot on a tiny budget but managed to swing a swanky premiere last Friday at London’s Empire in Leicester Square, and is being shown locally this week by the Odeon at the Trafford Centre.

More details here…

RALLY TO SAVE SALFORD'S MATERNITY UNIT
2pm Buile Hill Park, Eccles Old Road, Salford

Tomorrow (Sat 4th September) there's a big Keep Hope Maternity Open rally, backed by Salford TUC, Ryan Giggs and loads of others, to help save Salford Royal Hospital's Maternity Unit. Since the general election, the ConDem coalition has said it will review all of Greater Manchester's maternity closures, and one of the criteria is whether mums, families and GPs had been consulted properly.

Tomorrow's rally and march to the NHS HQ in Pendleton will hopefully show the views from Salford. Loud and clear.

CHEMISTRY FROM WHIT LANE TO BROUGHTON

The Chemical and Capricious `A Glimpse Within'
Exhibition and DVD screening
Lower Maxwell Hall, University of Salford 3rd Sept 11am-3pm
Broughton Family Fun Day, Albert Park, Saturday 4th September 12-4pm

Young people from across East Salford have been doing films, photos and words to try and make sense of their place in a city that's changing before their eyes - from the demolition zone of Whit Lane to the new white houses of New Broughton.

SALFORD'S GOT TALENT
Friday 3rd September 2010 7:45pm-1am
The Willows, Weaste Lane, Salford
£5 door fee (proceeds to CHRISTIES APPEAL)

PETER HOOK, TERRY CHRISTIAN JUDGE SALFORD TALENT

Tonight, at The Willows, Peter Hook, Terry Christian and Ed Blaney are judging a top line up of Salford talent, including dancers, singers, hip hop artists and drummers.

The night is a fundraiser for Christies and there will be an auction of signed footy shirts and a raffle with some top prizes. There's also a special performance by Girl Peculiar and the Costa Del Salford Disco featuring Hooky and others on the decks.

OSTRICH DEMOCRACY SALFORD STYLE…

Accountability, transparency and democracy seem to have ground to a halt in Salford as no public body seems to want to answer questions in the public interest…about school buildings, about MediaCityUK, about the University of Salford, about half a million pound costs in Bexley Square.

Neither the Council, nor the University, nor the Information Commissioner himself appears to want to let the taxpayers of Salford know what is happening with their hard earned money…

We ask `Who is running Salford – an accountable council or a flock of ostriches?'

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REF AND LINER RUIN SALFORD'S PERFECT FIGHTBACK

Another fantastic fightback by Salford City, clawing their way back from two goals down, was spoiled by a shocking referee's decision in injury time when a Clitheroe player, clearly a yard offside, was allowed to race clear of the Salford defence as the liner kept his flag down.

`Are you betting on the game?' sang the Salford fans in tribute to the Pakistan cricket team scandal…

INVISIBLE BULLETS

Hot on the heels of the fab Bog Standard movie, shot on location in the old Colgate soap factory in Ordsall, comes Invisible Bullets a mad wild west adventure set in a back yard.

This really short off its face film has been entered for The Virgin Media Shorts Awards and everyone in Salford can help the film makers win the chance to show Invisible Bullets in 214 cinemas nationwide.

FA Cup Preliminary Round
Salford City 2 Chorley 1

SALFORD CITY GO MARCHING ON

No-one gave Salford City a chance against top of the table unbeaten Chorley but the Ammies brushed the Lancs big spenders back into their wallets in an FA Cup tie that had everything – a missed penalty, a sending off, a dodgy 'keeper, a last minute dramatic winner and, of course, a punch.

MONEY SPEAKS LOUDER THAN SALFORDIANS

New university research reveals that Salford's regeneration is destroying the personality of the city, trying to "show itself to be a new Manchester, not a new Salford" and is leaving people `sceptical, suspicious and alienated'.

It adds that the regeneration is "politically motivated", that "money speaks louder than people" and that "new Salford is marketed at the 'city-slicker'" rather than "necessarily looking out for its own".

SALFORD UNPLUG CABLES TO SPARK FA CUP BID

Prescot Cables 1 Salford City 2

Salford City beat Prescot Cables on their own cabbage patch of a pitch last night to get confidence soaring before Saturday's big FA Cup tie at home to big spenders Chorley.

It's going to be the Arsenal of the Evo-Stik League v the Chelsea of the Evo-Stik.

Another Fifty Supporters Will Push Salford City To Next Level…

Salford City v Trafford
Saturday 21st August kick off 3pm
Moor Lane

As the big kick off looms this weekend for Salford City FC, chairman and manager Darren Quick says that another fifty paying supporters will be the difference between Salford's biggest footy team pushing for promotion or staying in the top ten of the league.

Read all about the big plans for the club, where Manchester United and Fred Done fit in, and how the community can play its part to put Salford City on the map…

PLANS TO DEMOLISH SALFORD CENTRAL MISSION ON SITE FOR OASIS ACADEMY MEDIACITYUK

"I'm not prepared to accept this (Academy planning proposal) unless there's a very clear commitment that the building will not be demolished" Councillor Derek Antrobus, Lead Member Planning Feb 2007

One of Salford's most iconic buildings is to be demolished under plans unveiled yesterday for the new Oasis Academy MediaCityUK high school at Salford Quays.

Central Salford Mission, also known as Salford Central United Reform Church (URC), was labelled "the most important building in Salford" by objectors at an original planning meeting for the school three years ago…

BAD TASTE ELTON JOHN JOKE BY NWDA CHIEF EXEC

Steve Broomhead, Chief Executive of the North West Development Agency - which has championed gay rights and campaigned against homophobia over the past few years - has been caught texting a gay joke about Elton John.

The £196,000 a year NWDA chief has already received a formal warning for sending a `Paki' joke by text but this is the first time his gay joke text has come to light.

Will Steve Broomhead be sacked? And why isn't the Gay and Lesbian Foundation furious?

MEDIACITYUK JOBS AT LAST!

Yep, with around £500million of public money that we reckon will be invested into MediaCityUK, we have finally found some jobs for Salford people…

Directing Children's TV? Nope. Presenting the BBC Breakfast show, given that no-one in London seems to want to move here? Nah. Match of the Day pundit? No chance! So where are these MediaCityUK jobs?