SALFORD IS "FRIGHTENING" AND "HEARTBREAKING" HOUSE EVICTION HOTSPOT
Salford has been highlighted in a new report by Shelter as being a hotspot for potential house repossession or evictions, with one in 61 households at risk compared to an England average of one in 105.
The statistics make Salford the second worst place in England, outside London, and the worst in the North West. Shelter's Chief Exec called the figures "frightening" and added "It is heartbreaking to see that so many people in England face spending Christmas with the threat of losing their home hanging over them."
SALFORD COUNCIL WINS INTEREST FREE LOANS – BUT NOT FOR US AWARD
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the annual Salford Star Mary Burns Awards, which are given out to honour stupid statements, dodgy dealings and iffy activities in the city over the past 12 months.
The ridiculously long title of the Interest Free Loans - But Not For Us Award reflects the ridiculous amount of free money given out on behalf of council tax payers to companies that are already rolling in cash. So kiss yer sharks and bang yer head on the bank for this year's winner, Salford City Council…
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the annual Salford Star Mary Burns Awards, given out to honour stupid statements, dodgy dealings and iffy activities in the city over the past 12 months.
While the winners tend to be Salford politicians and companies, there's been a last minute entry for Greater Manchester Police spelling at the anti-fracking Big Orange Bus blockade in Salford this morning. Yep, in came the `Protestor Removal Team' – and out went the dictionary. So wave your English GCSEs in the air for GMP…
Another brilliant and daring protest against IGas deliveries to its exploratory drilling site took place this morning as anti-fracking protesters blockaded the entrance gates with a big orange coach.
Four campaigners locked themselves onto various parts of the bus which was festooned with messages like `Happy Fracking Christmas' and `Keep Calm and Block the Drill'. It took Greater Manchester police over six hours to remove them, while the action delayed a big convoy of lorries.
MERRETT WINS SALFORD STAR AWARD FOR EXPOSING EXTREMISM
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the annual Salford Star Mary Burns Awards, given out to honour stupid statements, dodgy dealings and iffy activities in the city over the past 12 months.
We have yet another new category this year, The Ashley Jensen Award for Exposing Political Extremism and, although there were several nominations there could be only one winner. So ladies and gentlemen, dance on the tables and cough yer guts out for Salford Assistant Mayor Gena Merrett…
This morning, daring anti-fracking campaigners delivered an early Christmas present to the IGas exploratory drilling site at Barton Moss – a massive wind turbine blade which was left blocking the entrance gates.
Late this morning police were guarding the highly symbolic `present' as officers told the Salford Star it was `crime scene evidence'.
IAN STEWART WINS SALFORD STAR MARY BURNS `RENT-A-CROWD' AWARD
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the annual Salford Star Mary Burns Awards, which are given out to honour stupid statements, dodgy dealings and iffy activities in the city over the past 12 months.
This `Rent-a-Crowd of the Year' Award is dedicated to all the parents involved in the Save The Grange campaign and all those at the Barton Moss Community Protection Camp. And we have never-seen-before footage to prove the credentials of this year's worthy winner. Ladies and gentlemen wave yer placards in the air for Salford City Mayor Ian Stewart!!!
The Future Party Tuesday 31st December 9pm-8am Islington Mill £15/£20
Islington Mill's New Year's Eve all night bash promises to `catapult you through a portal into the year 3014 where you will be blasted by a collection of the most forward thinking club nights, promoters and DJs'. With four rooms full of the sassy and the strange can it be missed?
Salford City stunned Clitheroe with a last minute equaliser to continue a top run of form that has seen just one loss in the last six league matches. Matthew Purcell hit the first goal and sub David Chadwick got the 89th minute header that sent the Ammies home happy.
MARTIN VICKERS WINS THE SALFORD STAR MARY BURNS `SOMETHING STINKS IN SALFORD' AWARD
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the annual Salford Star Mary Burns Awards, which are given out to honour stupid statements, dodgy dealings and iffy activities in the city over the past 12 months.
When it comes to major iffy activities the judges had no hesitation in honouring Salford Council's former Strategic Director Martin Vickers, who this week was appointed Chief Executive of Salford Red Devils. So ladies and gentlemen bounce yer odd shaped balls and hold yer noses for…Martin Vickers!!!
THREE ARRESTS, INCLUDING PREGNANT WOMAN AND AN MEP CANDIDATE AT BARTON MOSS PROTEST
"This is the sort of brutality we've come to expect on the Moss when police are facilitating IGas' corporate agenda" Dan
Three people were arrested, including a pregnant woman and a Green Party MEP candidate, at Barton Moss Community Protection site this morning as around sixty people peacefully demonstrated against more lorry deliveries at the IGas drilling site.
Meanwhile, a disabled man was also barged into bushes by police and an ambulance was called, while an elderly lady with a walking stick was removed against her wishes by police for `walking too slowly'.
SALFORD KIDS HAVE ONLY 47% CHANCE OF DECENT HIGH SCHOOL
"For too many pupils, reaching the age of 11 can mark the end of access to a good education" Ofsted
Salford high schools have been singled out as a "concern" in the first ever Ofsted report reviewing education standards in the North West.
While our kids have a 75% chance of going to a good or outstanding primary school in Salford, their chance of going to a good or outstanding secondary school is only 47%.
BARTON MOSS PROTECTORS JOIN UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER OCCUPATION
Students at Manchester University this afternoon occupied its `Social Responsibility' offices as part of a nationwide `Cops Off Campus day' following events at the University of London this week.
This evening the students were joined by people from the Barton Moss Community Protection Camp in Salford, which has also had its problems with police action this week.
SALFORD COUNCIL'S `CREATIVE FINANCIAL MANOEUVRES' BACKFIRE AS WILLOWS LAND GOES INTO RECEIVERSHIP
Salford Council's outstanding loan to the old Salford Reds rugby club company, £1million of which was secured by a deal related to The Willows that even the Council's legal people called `creative financial manoeuvres', looks set for trouble.
Godliman Watson Homes Limited, which `owns' The Willows land is in receivership, its building site at Albert Park is derelict and companies say they are owed thousands of pounds by GWH Ltd, of which former Reds director Robert Iain Watson is a joint owner.
POLICE `ON A MISSION TO MAKE FIVE ARRESTS' SAY BARTON MOSS ANTI-FRACKING CAMPAIGNERS
"You cannot arrest someone for walking down a road backwards"
This morning Greater Manchester Police made five arrests during a peaceful blockade of lorries heading for the IGas drilling site in Barton Moss. Video footage appears to show police snatch squads targeting some of the twenty people who were involved in the action, with an inspector apparently overheard saying the police needed to make `one more arrest', indicating some kind of quota.
The police were accused of being "aggressive" and "out of control" by campaigner Ian R Crane.
"Labour has got to come off the fence on this one" Gail Hodson, Labour councillor
Around four hundred people from all over the country, many carrying trade union and campaign banners, attended a rally and march in support of the Barton Community Protection Camp yesterday
Speeches against fracking company IGas were also directed at Salford City Council and Mayor Ian Stewart, telling the Labour Party to get off the fence and give no more permits for gas drilling in the city.
VINTAGE CLOTHES, ART, JEWELLERY, WOOD CRAFT, PHOTOS, BOOKS AND MORE
Deli Lama Christmas Market Sunday 15th December 10am-3pm Bexley Square
The Deli Lama café bar and venue is hosting a very special Christmas Market next Sunday with an array of local artists and creatives selling a whole range of one-off gifts, from vintage clothes to photography, and the Salford Lions will be having a stall too.
You can also buy a raffle ticket to win an extraordinary Marmite pack – with proceeds to the Salford Star – love it or hate it?
Rebel Music Saturday 14th December The Crescent 7pm free/donation
Having stormed The Crescent pub with the Salford Against The Cuts fundraiser last week, Class Actions and co are at it again with Rebel Music At Karl Max's Drinking Haunt – a night of hot rappers, poets and singer songwriters.
PAULA DUNN BECOMES AMBASSADOR FOR DIANE MODAHL SPORTS FOUNDATION
Peel Green's Paula Dunn, Britain's best female sprinter in the late 80s and early 90s and now Head Coach of Paralympics GB, has been appointed as an ambassador for the Diane Modahl Sports Foundation.
The Foundation aims to inspire and develop athletes from disadvantaged backgrounds to be all round champions, as Paula explained to the Salford Star.
Super Salford City made it four wins out of the last five league games to move up to tenth in the Evo-Stik First Division North by smashing Harrogate with a top second half performance. Goals from Josh Messer and new signing Porya `Rio' Ahmadi sealed the points.
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
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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