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SALFORD MEDIACITYUK TO CUT SECURITY
Star date: 15th May 2012 A Salford Star Exclusive PEEL HOLDINGS TO AXE SECURITY JOBS AT MEDIA CITY Peel Holdings is to cut security staff at MediaCityUK with a possible loss of up to 20% of jobs, the Salford Star understands. Peel has a security contract with G4S and has informed the company that it is revising its security levels. This comes in the wake of recent national media attention over perceived crime levels around Salford Quays, where BBC workers were told via e-mail that Salford was "a different kettle of fish" to their London HQ and were offered personal security guards to their cars and trams. Full story here…
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CAN’T STAND UP IN SALFORD
Star date: 14th May 2012 UNHOLY MESS AT STUDIO SALFORD Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
Kings Arms
Wednesday 16- Friday 19th May £7/£5 This week, the largely Salford based Unholy Mess Theatre has teamed up with House of Orphans to present Can't Stand Up For Falling Down at Studio Salford within the Kings Arms pub. The play, a favourite at the Edinburgh Fringe, centres on three women in the 1960s and their stories of birth, death, marriage and motherhood… Full details here…
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ASDA WEEPS NO TEARS FOR SALFORD AND SWINTON GRAVES
Star date: 13th May 2012 MEMORIAL HELD FOR SWINTON BURIED WHO ASDA WANT TO DIG UP A dignified memorial service was held yesterday by campaigners and relatives of those interred at the controversial Unitarian Burial Ground, at the rear of Swinton Precinct. ASDA want to build a new 24hour store on the Precinct and the Burial Ground will be dug up if plans are passed by Salford Council in the coming weeks. Gareth Lyons witnessed the real tears shed at the graves… Full story here…
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THE LOST GENERATION FOR SALFORD
Star date: 12th May 2012 FREEDOM, CYBERWARFARE AND CELEBRITY IN NEW SALFORD FEATURE FILM… A top new feature film by Salford based producers, Future Artists, centred on an armed underground movement fighting back against a corrupt media and reality tv executions, is set to hit the big screen later this year. But the co-operative company wants everyone to help them complete The Lost Generation movie by crowd funding an edit suite which will then be available for community use… Full details of the movie and the crowd fund here…
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SALFORD DECORATORS X FACTOR IRLAM PUB COMP
Star date: 12th May 2012 TIGER MOTH PUB IN IRLAM LAUNCHES MAKEOVER COMP FOR PAINTERS… The Tiger Moth pub in Irlam has won a £2000 makeover prize in a national `Paint and a Pint' competition and is holding an X Factor style ideas day next Wednesday 16th May for professional painters and decorators who want to do the job. Rather than just get anyone in to tart the place up, owners Eileen and Seamus McCallion want their locals to choose potential painters. Full details here…
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SALFORD UNEMPLOYMENT RISE DOUBLE NATIONAL AVERAGE
Star date: 10th May 2012 SCARY NEW STATS SHOW HIGHEST ANNUAL UNEMPLOYMENT RISES FOR SALFORD YOUTH, WOMEN AND MEN… New statistics show that unemployment in Salford has risen by almost 20% over the last year, the highest rise in Greater Manchester and over double the national average. The stats, based on Job Seekers Allowance claimants, show that these highest annual rises in unemployment go across the board, hitting men, women and youth in Salford. Meanwhile, long term unemployment has rocketed by 56% over the last year… Full details here…
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SALFORD MAYOR ANNOUNCES UNDERWHELMING CABINET
Star date: 9th May 2012 SAME OLD NAMES IN NEW MAYOR'S CABINET – LANCASTER, MERRY, ANTROBUS, HINDS, CONNOR…BUT WARMISHAM IS OUT Salford's new Mayor, Ian Stewart, has announced his nine `assistant mayors' who will make up his `new' cabinet. And seven of them already had positions of power in the last administration. The Deputy Mayor is Councillor David Lancaster, who was also Deputy Leader previously, while there are still places at Salford Council's slightly re-shuffled top table for John Merry, Bill Hinds, Derek Antrobus and Peter Connor. The major casualty is John Warmisham but the message sent out by the underwhelming appointments is `More of the same'… Full story here…
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SALFORD BENEFIT FOR ANTHONY GRAINGER
Star date: 8th May 2012 JUSTICE4GRAINGER SALFORD BENEFIT Justice4Grainger Campaign Benefit
Old Pint Pot
Saturday 12th May 7pm £4/£2 "No trouble, no fighting, no riots, everything we're doing is peaceful – we don't want revenge we want answers and justice…" Gail Hadfield Lower Broughton's unarmed Anthony Grainger was shot dead by police last March as he sat in a car in Culcheth. Now his family and friends want answers, and have launched a campaign for justice. This Saturday there is a benefit at the Old Pint Pot to raise money for both the campaign and to support his children, which will be followed by a Father's Day protest in June. Full story here…
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CULT FIGURES FROM SALFORD AT THE BLACK LION
Star date: 8th May 2012 JOHN COOPER CLARKE SPOOF AND GEORGE BEST ANIMATION BEING SCREENED IN SALFORD Kino Short
Wednesday 9th May
Black Lion Pub 7:45pm £4/£3 I Married A Cult Figure From Salford, a music video spoof of John Cooper Clarke, featuring actors spliced with old footage of the Salford bard himself, is being shown this Wednesday at the Black Lion along with half a dozen other short films as part of the Kino Short monthly film nights. Also showing is BEST, a wicked animation on the rise, fame and fall of George Best. Full details here…
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SALFORD MAYOR STEWART MEETS HIS MAY DAY MATCH
Star date: 7th May 2012 `THINK MORALITY, JUSTICE AND SECURITY FOR THE PEOPLE OF SALFORD – OR I'LL COME KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR' New Salford Mayor, Ian Stewart, got his first ear bashing threat today when he appeared in Bexley Square to address the Salford May Day Rally. Alice Searle, speaking to the rally on behalf of the Salford Pensioners Association, waved a newspaper from 1942 at the Mayor which announced the birth of the Welfare State. She then warned him not to be "conned by the money" or she would "come knocking on your door". Over 300 people attended the annual May Day Rally at Bexley Square before marching into Manchester to a further rally in Cathedral Gardens. Full story and loads of photos here…
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Monkey, are you one of Merry's minions? You certainly seem to be, the story surrounding the email broke last month, not last year.... [more] |
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Has anyone ever been to BBC Television Center in London as trust me I feel safer in Salford. I think it was last week, but the BBC... [more] |
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Talk about passing the buck! Suddenly nobody knows anything and John Merry, such a vociferous supporter of all things Peel, has s... [more] |
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I cannot think of any other situation, in any other culture, where graves on holy ground would be desecrated, for any reason, much... [more] |
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The email that you keep referring to was, as has been reported, from last year, and referred to when the site was still partly und... [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
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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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