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WINTER WARM UP SUBVERTISERS STRIKE AGAINST FUEL POVERTY
Star date: 28th January 2012
CLIMATE ACTION GROUP HIT PROFIT GRABBING ENERGY COMPANIES
For anyone who is gobsmacked by the 22% rise in gas and leccy bills this month… For anyone who is sickened by a quarter of all UK people living in fuel poverty… For anyone who is disgusted by the thousands of people who will die this winter because they can't afford to put the heating on… And for anyone wants to vomit over obscene profits being made by the big six energy companies… This is for you...
…courtesy of the Manchester Climate Action Group, who did a bit of DIY subvertising on billboards yesterday in support of Winter Warm Up Weekend…
Full details and video here…
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SALFORD VOTES FOR ELECTED MAYOR
Star date: 27th January 2012
SALFORD MAYOR ELECTION IN MAY
Salford will have a mayoral election in May, after yesterday's referendum vote went in favour of an elected Mayor. Only 18.1% of the electorate bothered to vote, with 17,344 of those votes in favour of an elected Mayor, and 13,653 against, in what will be seen as a massive defeat for the ruling Labour Party in Salford which campaigned for a `No' vote.
More details here…
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SALFORD MAYOR REFERENDUM
Star date: 24th January 2012
SALFORD MAYOR – YES OR NO?
On Thursday 26th January, Salford citizens are being asked to vote on whether the city should have a Mayor or not.
The Salford Star never tells anyone how to vote, so here we look at what an elected Mayor would mean and consider both sides of the argument. Oh, and we also try to figure out where Hazel Blears is coming from on this matter – after all, it was her idea in the first place…
Click here for full story…
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SALFORD CAMPAIGNS AGAINST DAY CARE CLOSURES
Star date: 23rd January 2012
SALFORD COUNCIL ACCUSED OF `MURDERING' ELDERLY
"This Council is now killing Salford people…it's literally murder" Salford Pensioners Association
On Saturday over 150 people, including day care centre workers, carers, service users and activists, met in Swinton to oppose Salford City Council's plans to withdraw funding from at least two day care centres.
In a passionate speech, George Tapp of Salford Pensioners Association accused Salford Council of `murdering' the city's elderly.
Full details here…
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SALFORD RIOT MAN GETS JAIL FOR TORCHING BBC RADIO CAR
Star date: 22nd January 2012
LENGTHIEST RIOT SENTENCE FOR BBC RADIO MANCHESTER CAR TORCHER
Last Friday, Salford man Zac Challinor got five and a half year's in jail for torching the BBC Radio Manchester car at Salford Precinct. It was the lengthiest sentence doled out for any rioter. But, so far, most media hasn't bothered to report it.
Anne Czernik was in court for the Salford Star, reports on the background to the case and asks whether both the sentence and the crime was symbolic of the city's polarity with MediaCityUK…
Full story here…
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SALFORD BIPOLAR DRINKERS NEEDED
Star date: 22nd January 2012
ABLE TO DRINK WITH BIPOLAR?
Mental health trusts and universities have launched a huge research programme called Able, which stands for Assessing Bipolar Lifestyle Experiences, to study psychological approaches to the bipolar disorder.
As part of this they are looking for Salford people with the condition who also drink alcohol in any amount.
See here for further details…
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SALFORD CITY FALTER ON THE DRAW BRIDGE
Star date: 22nd January 2012
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TEN MAN BAMBER STIFLE PAY OFF HOPES
Salford City were heading for victory at Moor Lane yesterday when ten man Bamber Bridge rustled a penalty late in the game to earn a draw.
Goals from Gavin Salmon and Jamie Baguley had seemed to put the Ammies back in touch with the play off positions before Bamber penned Salford back.
Match report and photos here…
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SALFORD COUNCIL DAY CARE CUTS CAMPAIGN
Star date: 20th January 2012
SALFORD DAY CARE CENTRES IN PERIL FROM COUNCIL CUTS
"It's going to upset a lot of people, particularly the elder ones who can't cope with it" Dorothy Mainwaring, 79.
Defend Our Day Care Centres Public Meeting
Saturday 21st January 12-2pm
Swinton Royal British Legion, Cheetham Road
Tomorrow's public meeting in Swinton will see people from all over Salford continue the resistance to Salford Council cuts to day care centres – with Humphrey Booth in Ordsall, Craig Hall in Irlam, Brierley House in Little Hulton and St George's in Charlestown all under threat. Here, people at the sharp end of those cuts give their views and tell their stories.
Click here for full details…
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PEEL HOLDINGS WINS SALFORD STAR FEED THE RICH AWARD
Star date: 19th January 2012
PEEL HOLDINGS WINS SALFORD STAR MARY BURNS AWARD
The Salford Star Mary Burns Awards are given out to honour the most deserving individuals and organisations in the city for their stupid statements, dodgy dealings and iffy activities over the past 12 months.
The Feed The Rich Award, handed out in recognition those using public funds to help subsidise the well moneyed, is usually the most hotly contested Mary - with past winners including the Homes and Communities Agency, Urban Splash and Peel Holdings. Peel couldn't have won it again, could they?
Ladies and Gentlemen, wave your wallets in the air and rattle your jewellery for the winner of the FEED THE RICH AWARD…
Click here to see who's scooped the cash…
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HOW THE PUBLIC PAID FOR PEEL HOLDINGS SALFORD MEDIACITYUK
Star date: 18th January 2012
A Salford Star Exclusive
HOW PEEL HOLDINGS HAS CASHED IN ON MEDIACITYUK – WITH PUBLIC MONEY
As Peel Holdings records profits of £55million, Salford Star reveals the huge amounts of public money that have been sunk into MediaCityUK, virtually covering all of Peel's £490million costs on the development.
Meanwhile Salford Council has waived its financial contribution policies on the site which remains in private hands, with Peel's private security company ejecting anyone it feels like…
Full details here…
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SALFORD BBC JOBS COST OVER £200,000 EACH
Star date: 17th January 2012
16 JOBS FOR SALFORD PEOPLE AT BBC MEDIACITYUK COST SALFORD COUNCIL TAX PAYERS WELL OVER £200K EACH!!!
The 16 proper jobs for Salford people at the BBC's new base at MediaCityUK, as revealed today, have cost Salford Council tax payers £187,500 each, and that's just from the annual £3million BBC Philharmonic Orchestra sponsorship, the Salford Star can reveal.
The £3million BBC sponsorship can be added to almost £6million of `community engagement' funding from various pots of public money, plus the £650 per day `deprived areas consultant' Chris Marsh is being paid to find Salfordians jobs at Media City, plus events costing over £500,000 `welcoming the BBC to Salford'. It's a proper scandal and disgrace…
Full story here…
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FEW SALFORD PEOPLE GET BBC MEDIA CITY JOBS
Star date: 16th January 2012
ONLY 1% OF MANCS AND SALFORDIANS WHO APPLIED TO BBC SALFORD GOT JOBS
`You were twice as likely to get a job at BBC Salford if you were from London'
Out of 15,238 people from Manchester and Salford who applied for jobs at the BBC's new base at MediaCityUK, 154 got jobs, which is only 1%.
The figures are revealed today by The Guardian newspaper's Northerner Blog following a Freedom of Information request. The Northerner also reveals that, proportionately, people from London who applied to the BBC were more likely to be taken on than those from Manchester or Salford.
Update 17th Jan: The MEN today reveals that only 16 people from Salford got a full time job at the BBC.
Full details here…
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SALFORD TOILET WINS IN FOR A PENNY AWARD
Star date: 16th January 2012
ECCLES TOILET WINS SALFORD STAR MARY BURNS AWARD…
The Salford Star Mary Burns Awards - given out to honour the most deserving individuals and organisations in the city for their stupid statements, dodgy dealings and iffy activities over the past 12 months – has a brand new category this year, devised specially for one very special loo…
Ladies and Gentlemen, chuck your toilet rolls in the air for the winner of the IN FOR A PENNY IN FOR £26,500 AWARD…
Click here to see who's done the business…
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JOHN HERRING NEW SINGLE AND ALBUM
Star date: 15th January 2012
IT STARTS AGAIN FOR SALFORD'S JOHN HERRING
It Starts Again
Download on iTunes
Top Salford singer songwriter, John Herring, begins a 2012 of activity with a new single release this week, followed by live dates with a full band and a second album in March.
The single, It Starts Again, is currently available as a download on iTunes, and features a zillion Salford people who attended his gig last summer…
Full details here…
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SALFORD CLARION EXHIBITION AT WCML
Star date: 15th January 2012
CARRY ON CLARION – THE PAPER THAT CHANGED LIVES
The Clarion
Working Class Movement Library
Until March 30th free
The Salford Star can only dream of what the 19th Century Clarion newspaper achieved during its print time. The paper inspired its readers to set up the famous Clarion cycling clubs, as well as bands, choirs, rambling clubs and it even had its own café in Manchester.
Now, as part of the 2012 Manchester Histories Festival the Working Class Movement Library has launched a major exhibition about the Clarion and is putting on loads of events to go with it…
More details here…
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An Elected Mayor for Salford represents a regression to a pre-democratic era where local people were dependant on the ... [more] |
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Great news for Salford! Spicer costs a fortune as do her overpaid and under worked cronies Marsh and Brady. Merry and his muppets ... [more] |
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Great news for salford . Some top BBC bullshitter is leaving , so that could mean ONE MORE JOB for salford . Great .Can hardly co... [more] |
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The Yes vote was inevitable last night.The low poll was because the party against,know at the stats about the city, but did not us... [more] |
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Ask the citizens of Leicester how their elected Mayor has delivered the goods yet?
100 pledges in 100 days - yet he has a bev... [more] |
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WHY SALFORD STAR IS ONLINE…
When we began producing the Salford Star nearly three years ago the aim was always for it to be a magazine – a big, proud, free glossy magazine that would go to as many people in Salford as possible. The reason for this was that, even according to Salford Council figures, only one person in five in the city had access to the internet. Now that figure has possibly risen to around a third. This is why Salford still needs its own accessible magazine.
We also set the Salford Star up to tell the truth, to be the voice of the community, untouched by vested interests. Unfortunately we didn’t realise that the reaction to those |
truths would be so brutal…Salford Council even re-wrote its own constitution for devolved money and ripped up our application for finance, while stuffing £175,000 into its `magazine’. Advertisers have told us that they can’t be seen to support the Salford Star for fear of losing contracts…it goes on and on and on.
So we now rely purely on donations and sales of
t-shirts to get the
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magazine back into print. And we’re a long way off getting the £6000 or so we need to do this. So please, if you want to see the Salford Star survive make a small donation, buy a t-shirt or a back copy of the mag. Every penny helps.
Salford is a huge city – it deserves its own independent magazine. Its about democracy, accountability and all those other things that were born in the city. Please help the Salford Star live…
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