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Salford Star Issue 9 Online
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LOTTERY REJECTS BUILE HILL PARK

A Salford Star Exclusive

Star date: July 2nd 2009

WILKINSON'S HOTEL DESTROYS FUNDING FOR BUILE HILL PARK

The restoration of Buile Hill Park received a major blow today when the Heritage Lottery Fund rejected Salford Council's £3million application on the grounds that "a hotel within a park would impact on its character"…

Now, according to official figures, the Buile Hill rebuff has cost the Council almost £73,000.

 
 
SALFORD CITY REDS STADIUM SETBACK

Star Date: 30th June 2009
A Salford Star Exclusive

REDS ROCKED BY FURTHER STADIUM SETBACK

Salford City Reds new state of the art stadium has received yet another huge blow as Salford City College was refused development funding by the Learning and Skills Council yesterday…

 
 
SWINTON LIBRARY COMES ALIVE

READING MINDS

Never mind the books, you can borrow a real Salford person with a story to tell at Swinton Library this Monday 29th June between 2pm and 9pm as part of UNISON’s unique Living Library event…

 
 
HAZEL MUST GO! contd...

PUBLIC MEEETING

The first public meeting of the Hazel Must Go! Campaign is to be held on

Thursday 16th July, 7pm
Pendleton Bowling Club, 13 Eccles Old Road, Salford M6 7DE (
map)

There will be a few speakers but mainly it's to discuss what's going to happen next in the Hazel Must Go! campaign.

Everyone in Salford is welcome to attend.

More info can be found here

 
 

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HAZEL MUST GO: THE VIDEO

`YOU TUBE IF YOU WANT TO...'

Here's Chasing Hazel - the video of the Hazel Must Go! protest by Daniel Sims and Amna Kaleem.

It includes footage of Hazel Blears slinking out of the Civic Centre and the Salford Youth Council attempting their citizen's arrest...

See related articles here

and here

and here

 
 
HAZEL BLEARS DOESN’T MEET NIGEL PIVARO

Nigel Pivaro's Take On The Day The Media Pack Arrived In Salford

…The scribes of Canary Wharf calculate that their readers don't want to know about the nuts and bolts of deprivation and enforced poverty of some unlucky Salford lass…What is sexy is the dethroning of an ex cabinet ice queen who feathered her nest too liberally, got caught out and had the brass neck to instigate an abortive coup on the eve of the election…

 
 
HAZEL BLEARS RESELECTED

Star date: Friday June 19th 2009

HAZEL AVOIDS THE GRASS ROOTS

`Hazel…Hazel…Hazel…Out! Out! Out!'...

Last night 31 members of the Labour Party voted to re-select Hazel Blears and they've got a hell of a lot to answer for.  Earlier in the day people had queued at the Hazel Must Go! stall on Salford Precinct to sign a petition to try and force her to resign.  Outside the Civic Centre, with a only day's notice, nearly 200 people launched a noisy demonstration to try and persuade the Labour People to de-select her.  But, out of touch and out of step with the ordinary Salford people, the delegates supported Hazel Blears and have now opened the door for an independent candidate to stand against Blears at the next General Election…

And just where was Hazel?  She avoided her beloved `grass roots' Salford people, sneaking into the Civic Centre to avoid the demonstration against her and sneaking out again afterwards, only posing for select camera crews…which really disappointed one bloke from Salford Youth Council who was hoping to make a citizen's arrest…

 

 
 
HAZEL BLEARS MUST GO

Two events have been organised by the Hazel Must Go! Campaign at very short notice, and both are being supported by the Salford Star.

HAZEL MUST GO! Demonstration outside Salford Civic Centre in Swinton 6pm Thursday June 18th

HAZEL MUST GO! Petition Signing – Salford Precinct (near Tesco’s)
10am-12noon Thursday June 18th

 
 
MARY BURNS - HAZEL BLEARS GETS ON HER BIKE

ON YOUR BIKE HAZEL


While everyone in Salford struggles with bills and jobs and debts and stuff, we reveal how Hazel is about to take delivery of a custom made motorbike so she can take off this summer on a lovely biking holiday in Europe…but who's paying for it?

 
 
HAZEL BLEARS EXPENSES Part 3

Star Date: 17 June 2009

THE TRUTH ABOUT HAZEL'S EXPENSES…

Shock! Horror! The full extent of Hazel's expenses revealed…

Over £9000 on food…Over £51000 on mortgage payments…Over £8000 on furniture…Oh and some lovely wine glasses for £60 and a mirror for nearly £300…

 

 

Salford Media Scene - issue 1 out now!

Click on the cover to see the whole magazine or pick up your free print copy at

the Langworthy Cornerstone
451 Liverpool Street
Salford
M6 5QQ

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SALFORD STAR
WHY ISSUE 9 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…

 
 
SALFORD STAR WINS PLAIN ENGLISH AWARD!!!

The Salford Star has won the Plain English Campaign's Best Regional Newspaper Award 2008

The prestigious award was presented by Rory Bremner at a special ceremony in London.

The judges said:
“The Salford Star campaigns in the best traditions of a regional paper working to protect the interests of its local community.
”It’s presented in a magazine style which makes it easy to read. It uses good headlines and narrative with interesting articles aimed at the people of Salford.

 



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