Star date: 28th July 2010  

SALFORD COUNCIL REJECTS STAR APPEAL

"…you haven't published any positive stuff on MediaCityUK" John Merry

Yesterday, Salford City Council's Cabinet rejected Salford Star's appeal against the Council's decision to stop the city's community committees from funding the community magazine. One of the reasons given was that Salford Star hadn't done any positive stories on MediaCityUK.

Meanwhile, evidence that the Council brought to the `trial' purporting to show that the Salford Star was `not balanced' in its coverage, we believe, was totally discredited. But the goalposts kept shifting…

Star date: 27th July 2010  

`DERANGED GOVERNMENT' JIBE AT CONDEM COALITION

During today's Salford City Council Cabinet meeting Councillor Peter Connor, Lead Member for Housing, referred to the current ConDem coalition government as "deranged".

The jibe came during an agenda item on a new report into Child Poverty which revealed that close to 60% of the city's children are currently living in poverty. Councillor Connor accused the Government of undermining the Council's attempts to ease child poverty in the city through its cutbacks.

Star date: 27th July 2010

SALFORD COUNCIL REVEALS ALMOST 60% OF OUR KIDS LIVE IN POVERTY

A report out today titled `Ending Child Poverty IN Salford' sets out the true extent of child poverty in Salford. And it's absolutely shocking.

While previous estimates and official statistics have been based on children living in `workless households' and shown a rate hovering around 30%, new figures taking into account `low income working households' show that "the true level of all child poverty in Salford could be closer to 60%".

Star date: 26th July 2010 

DEER SPOTTED ON KERSAL MOOR

For weeks there have been reported sightings of deer on Kersal Moor, now, at last we have a photo of one of them.

Star date: 25th July 2010 

REDS `ICONIC' STADIUM SHRINKS TO 12,000 CAPACITY `BOX'?

Salford Reds supporter Jack Rogers goes on an epic search through Salford Council's planning department to find some truth in the `iconic' new stadium saga…

Star date: 23rd July 2010

REDS SILENCE ON NEW STADIUM

The City of Salford stadium - iconic heartbeat of the city's sport, or a box?

Mystery still seems to surround final design of Salford City Reds' new stadium, with conflicting images and a wall of silence. The site at Barton is being cleared but what will go there?

Star date: 19th July 2010 

MEDIACITYUK BUS TERMINAL?

A new bus service linking MediaCityUK with Central Salford is now a major doubt, according to a report by Salford City Council.

The new £382,076 bus service was to link Salford Crescent station and MediaCityUK, via the Precinct, but the report states that it is "expected" that the bus route "will be lost" in Government cuts. 

Star date: 19th July 2010

THE STORY OF THE SALFORD STAR
Wednesday 21st July 2010 6pm free
Working Class Movement Library
51 The Crescent, Salford M5 4WX

Battles with Salford City Council, battles with finance, battling over the truth. The Salford Star, born in May 2006, is still battling against all the odds.

At 6pm on Wednesday 21st July at the Working Class Movement Library, hear how the Salford Star fits in with a radical publishing history dating back centuries. It's a short talk followed by questions and discussion, as part of the Invisible Histories Exhibition at the Library.

Star date: 19th July 2010

ORDSALL FESTIVAL AND DOG SHOW
Saturday 24th July 2010 10am-5pm
Ordsall Park, Salford M5 3AD Free entry

This Saturday the Ordsall Festival promises a Dog Show from 10am -12noon, and, at the Festival that follows, Elephants, Lions, Monkeys and Snakes – but are they real? Find out on Saturday…

Star date: 18th July 2010 

SALFORD'S GOT TALENT?

Can you dance? Sing? Act? Tell a Joke? Got a Talent? Want to perform?

On 3rd September there's going to be a top variety show at The Willows in Weaste, with a celeb panel including Peter Hook and Terry Christian. It's to raise money for the Christies appeal and organisers Silky Productions are looking for anyone with a talent to try their luck.