Ordsall Colgate Factory Toilets Star in Film

The toilets at the old Colgate Factory on Ordsall Lane have become the location for a new short film called Bog Standard, set in a loo.

The ten minute comedy is sure to put the Colgate Factory on the map, before it becomes part of the new `Ordsall Waterfront' plan.

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The Great Train Robbery

The Thomas The Tankers from Yorkshire escaped Moor Lane with a draw last night after being railroaded back into their own penalty area for much of the second half.

LIFE THROUGH THE LENS
Snapshots of Salford's Past
Salford Museum and Art Gallery

Celebrating ten years of the Council's ace Life Times project comes an equally top photographic exhibition that links the City's past with its present, complete with a giant camera, a mock up of a photographer's studio, a DIY shadow puppet show and rats all over the place for the kids to spot.

Not to be missed.

Peter Hook: An Evening Of Unknown Pleasures.
Saturday 1st May The Lowry

New Order, Joy Division, Hacienda – he's done the DJing, done the film, done the book, done the club. Now Hooky's going live on tour around the UK talking the talk, being quizzed, playing the bass and showing films and memorabilia, all compered by top ex dope dealer Howard Marks.

It's all coming to home town Salford on May Day…

Clitheroe 2 Salford City 0

Salford City's revival ground to a halt today against another hill team – must be the altitude, the geen striped shirts or something…

BARTON MOSS GREEN BELT EXPLOITATION `TO BE SHELVED'…

Campaigners against Salford Council's proposals to hand over 40 hectares of green belt land in Irlam for industrial warehousing are celebrating tonight after the Council's head of planning, Derek Antrobus, said that he might do a u-turn.

But is it for real or is the fact that there's a local election around the corner playing a part in all this?

Just Kath Hits Unsigned Final

Kath Edmonds, a former Salford University student, has reached the final of the 2010 Live and Unsigned contest, and competes against lots of other finalists this Sunday, March 7th at The Willows on Weaste Lane.

A THIRD OF HOMES IN SALFORD NON DECENT…
"1 in 3 homes in Salford are in poor condition" Audit Commission
 …and almost 12,000 homes contain `Category 1 Hazards'

Almost 29,000 houses in Salford, around a third of the city's total homes, are not decent to live in. Despite hundreds of millions of pounds of public `regeneration' money being poured into the city, thousands of Salford people are living in homes that don't meet the Government's own standards for decency - `warm, weatherproof and having reasonably modern facilities.'

A few years ago, the Council itself introduced a `Salford Standard' which rated above basic decency levels and, from statistics provided by Registered Social Landlords and the Council, no socially rented homes in the city currently either meet or are measured against this standard…

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AMMIES ROAR BACK!

Salford City stuffed the Scousers last night to record a fifth away win of the season and ease any fears of relegation. In the process, two Prescot goalies got sent off...

SALFORD COUNCIL SPENDING OVER £40,000 ON WATER COOLERS

Following `Biscuitgate' when Salford Council revealed that it has been spending over £30,000 on drinks and biscuits per year, now comes `Watergate'…

The Council has revealed that it is spending £40,378 a year on water coolers, including over £6000 a year on plastic water cooler bottles.

SALFORD STAR IN LIVE ELECTION SPECIAL

Round 1: Thursday 4th March 7pm-8:30pm
Salford Arts Theatre, Kemsing Walk, off Liverpool St, Salford M5 4BS
Subject: Housing and the Environment
Tickets are free but must be booked in advance.

Councillors Robin Garrido (Tory), Pat Ryan (Labour), Norman Owen (Lib Dem), plus Stephen Kingston (Salford Star) and Liz Richardson (Manchester Met University).

Over the next five weeks a Question Time type event comes to Salford Arts Theatre with a panel answering questions from the audience, like the tv version. The Salford Star is taking part in the first event, along with councillors from the main political parties, and the subject is housing and the environment.

PEEL HOLDINGS' LUNAR LANDSCAPE IN SALFORD    

"It's absolutely desolate…" Barbara Keeley, MP Worsley and Eccles South

"It's like being on the moon…" Ian Lindley, Councillor and Conservative candidate for Worsley and Eccles South
 
"It's similar to what they're doing to the rain forests…" David Henry, Hazel Must Go! candidate for Salford

Yesterday afternoon politicians, residents and anti Peel Holdings protesters took a walk to the scene of the biggest environmental destruction in Salford, if not the North West. 

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While Man City were doing the business at the Bridge, the ref was doing his business for Bamber Bridge with two shocking decisions that turned this game.

However, the match will be remembered by fans for the return of Salford City legend Barry Massay and the opening of the new `Tangerine Club' – a huge portakabin that's now installed on the site of Moor Lane's burnt out clubhouse…

PROTEST WALK TO CHAT MOSS PEAT EXTRACTION SITE
Saturday 27th February 2010 12noon – 2pm
Meet: End of Cutnook Lane, Irlam, Salford M44 5NB

Peel Holdings has been involved with peat extraction on precious bog land in Chat Moss for years. Tomorrow, Saturday 27th Feb, there's a walk to and through the land, both as a protest against Peel's proposals to increase mineral extraction on the land – and also for people to see for themselves how the land is bled to death in pursuit of profit.

This is Salford's land equivalent of seal culling…It is disgusting. Be there…

Salford School Plans Show Oasis Academy MediaCityUK 60% Empty… Swinton and Moorside Overcrowded…

Yesterday, Salford's councillors approved new proposals for Salford's schools, as part of the city's `Building Schools for the Future' (BSF) programme.

According to the Council's own figures for pupil numbers over the next six years the plans appear to be absolutely bonkers…

`We're Not Picking on St George's – Honestly!'

"There is no agenda here" – John Merry

Salford Council Leader, John Merry, went as far as issuing a specific quote yesterday, indirectly denying that there is still a plot to close St George's RC High School, following the Salford Star story last week…

`NO THANKS' TO NEW BROUGHTON

"Why would I want to leave my house to go to one that's half the size?" asks Liz Timperley, who fears that if she doesn't accept the new "dolls house" on offer in `New Broughton' she'll be made homeless.
 
As more public money is poured into the regeneration of Lower Broughton, residents whose perfectly good homes are being bulldozed are up in arms, raising petitions against new housing plans by Countryside Properties and Salford Council.

PZ CUSSONS FACTORY IN KERSAL MEETS THE BULLDOZERS

The bulldozers have now moved in to demolish the first ever Cussons soap factory in the country. Acquired in 1909 as a bleach mill and opened as the home of soap in 1920 the building, which shut a few years ago, will be wiped from the landscape in a few weeks taking with it many memories from the Salford people who worked there...

CLOTHES THAT SAY `SEE YA!'

"It's the void that's left; the cube shapes represent the room they left behind." Emma Liddell

The gaping hole that's left behind when people go elsewhere has inspired two collections of clothes by University of Salford fashion students. And the inspirational designs have got them to the final of the national Fashion Awareness Direct competition.

With the amount of houses that are being bulldozed around the University the students should find a ready market for their clothes.