Dance With The Devil!
 
We exclusively reveal how mega-bucks company Peel Holdings is trying to influence this year's local election...

IT'S THE MUPPET SHOW...WITH OUR VERY SPECIAL GUEST STAR...SALFORD COUNCIL LEADER, MR JOHN MERRY!!!

 John Merry, Leader of Salford City Council, requested an interview with Salford Star and we agreed, provided we could ask anything we wanted, that he had no editorial control over the final piece, and that he didn't just spout the usual bullshit which no-one wants to hear. "I always thought that I came up with unusual bullshit" he replied. How could we refuse?

"They're trying to shut down our school. They've got sheep on our football pitch. They're not listening to us, and they're charging us for protesting! They don't care!"
Heather Ennis - St George's High School pupil

We put it to John Merry, Leader of Salford City Council...

At the end of February 2008, 1000 people marched to save St George's RC High School in Little Hulton, Salford.  The four schoolgirls who organised the demonstration were charged nearly £2000 for the `privilege' of protesting...