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SALFORD ADVERTISER TO CLOSE AS SALFORD STAR COMES BACK INTO PRINT
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Star date: 12th February 2015 SALFORD ADVERTISER TO SHUT AND BE REPLACED WITH MANCHESTER WEEKLY NEWS The Salford Advertiser - established in 1982 after incorporating the Salford Reporter - is to close in April, to be replaced by the Manchester Weekly News, a Greater Manchester-wide publication which will only go to 265,000 homes - despite the county having a population of almost three million people. The news comes as Salford Star is preparing to re-launch its print edition in spring, with a 20,000 print run... Full details here...
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The Salford Advertiser is to shut in April, after years of being run down and delivered free to less and less areas of the city. The Advertiser, established in 1982 after it was incorporated with the Salford Reporter, now charges a cover price of £1, while the website disappeared and became a `Salford' section of the Manchester Evening News a few years ago. The Salford Advertiser joins up to half a dozen other local MEN Media titles including the Stockport Times and Trafford Advertiser that will be closed, to be replaced by the Manchester Weekly News which will be distributed across Greater Manchester to 265,000 homes – out of a population of almost three million people. Some of the Manchester Weekly News editorial will cover Salford but MEN Media Managing Director Paul O'Halloran says that it will only be delivered to a certain class of people... "The Manchester Weekly News will provide us with circa 400,000 readers with the high ABC1 profile audience our clients want to reach" he explains. The name of the new freesheet is bound to anger Salford residents already frustrated at organisations re-branding Salford as `Manchester' – MediaCityUK, Manchester; University of Salford; Manchester; and The Lowry Outlet, Manchester amongst others. The closing down of the Salford Advertiser coincides with the Salford Star's re-launch into print, with 20,000 printed copies to hit houses, shops, pubs and cafes in the spring. Further details to be announced. For details of advertising in the Salford Star email info@salfordstar.com
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DARREN BORN AND BRED wrote
at 07:39:48 on 23 December 2019 |
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| I get the MCR weekly paper through my letterbox every Thursday. It stays on the floor in the hallway for about 2days before I bother to read it. When I do read it for about 2minutes, I read the Salford planning page, to see what EXPANSIVE little boxes(apartments) are going up next on the Salford/MCR borders. That's it. Its got BORING news about Oldham, Rochdale, tameside, etc. When I've finished reading this dire paper for 2minutes, I WIPE my arse with it. Its a CRAP newspaper. The old Salford advertiser was good, full of LOCAL news/storys and also full of pictures of that old Salford MP, Hazel. Merry Xmas people. |
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Joe Muggins wrote
at 19:14:46 on 22 December 2019 |
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| The Manchester Weekly News (Salford Edition)is in my opinion a complete waste of paper as no one that I know in Salford is the least bit bothered about Stockport,Ashton under Lyne, Tameside etc in a local newspaper.
The MEN and the Bolton News, both run by the same company are a pale shadow of what they used to be. |
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Colin Lyne wrote
at 13:10:16 on 21 December 2019 |
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| The Salford City Reporter was NOT absorbed by the Salford Advertiser in 1982!
I left the original Salford City Reporter in 1983, and that local paper had been respected for many years from the late 1800s. The Salford Advertiser was not a patch on the Reporter, where Tom Bergin, a respected member of the Sanford Community had been Editor, followed by Tony Jackson in 1976. |
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Stephen Morris wrote
at 16:01:57 on 24 June 2015 |
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| Is it a coincidence that the "Salford Advertiser" or commonly known as "Hazel Blears Weekly" has ceased at the same time Hazel Blears is no longer an MP. Labour controlled Salford is fast becoming a suburb of Labour controlled Manchester, see the connection, Salford Labour doesn't stand up for the people of Salford or promote the city. |
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David Gauton wrote
at 08:00:29 on 17 May 2015 |
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| We used to get the Salford advertiser delivered for free about 75% of the time Since it changed to Manchester weekly news We have had 2 copies of it .So I decided to contact them and looking on the internet I found this page Well if the pop of the county is nr 3 million and they only deliver 265000 no wonder us people that live in small side street in Salford we do not come into the class that Managing Director Paul O'Halloran says will get it .What I would like to know is does he tell people that pay to advertise that their advertisement will only be seen by a few people |
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Becky wrote
at 18:56:41 on 26 March 2015 |
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| Have they took before the bench out, I like reading it to see what people have been doin.. I.e robbing coffee from costcutter lol ! It's funny but if its temover where is it now |
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D Cigar wrote
at 10:53:04 on 17 February 2015 |
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| It's perhaps time to surrender to the fact that Salford has become a suburb of Manchester.
The advertiser over the last few years was just a cut and paste in the main form the Mancehsetr Evening News.
Also our elected members, mine is some obscure woman called Lisa Stone, have allowed Salford to be subsumed by Manchester Council. We Weill soon have agreTer manchester mayor.
Goodbye Salford you were gods until you were sold out. |
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Paul Mallon wrote
at 10:26:44 on 15 February 2015 |
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| I agree it will be a shame to lose The Advertiser.
They ran a story about my son who had sent them a copy of a letter he sent to the local councillor about the dog dirt that was littering his journey to school. Along with a classic arms folded, disgruntled photo! Salford council eventually put a dog dirt bin nearby which we call Max's dog poo bin!
I never agreed with the before the bench page, as mentioned above I thought it was just sad to read about someone getting caught stealing 4 cans of lager from Lidl!
I mostly enjoyed the letters page and I'm hoping this will be continued in the Salford Star.
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Chaz wrote
at 10:26:40 on 15 February 2015 |
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| lol at PW looking for any kind of respect for anything to do with that despicable rag. It stood by and did nothing as brave and honest Salfordians were battered and brutalised at Barton Moss. It stood by and did nothing as iGas, Salford City Council and GMP colluded to have its readers put through sham court case after sham court case in probably the biggest miscarriage and misuse of the British legal system since the Miner's Strike. At a time when Salfordians really needed quality investigative journalism into the abhorrent fracking industry that was suddenly and violently thrust upon it the SA not only did nothing it actually colluded in the abuse.
As I said in my first post the Sadvertiser got its karma |
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Salford Lad wrote
at 08:24:28 on 15 February 2015 |
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| The Advertiser was, at best, a cheesy rag, to be read only when you had a few spare moments on the shyter ! Can anyone on here recall any coverage of the Barton Moss fracking situation in the Advertiser ? To be brutally honest, The Advertiser was a disgusting dictat, what other publication did Before The Bench ?? Pamela, you might have had good intentions but way to go working for a publication that demonized the working class as criminal, chav scum ! With the Labour Party, with help from their ConDem chums at Westminster, trying to flog off all our heritage and environmental assets to the first person who waves a cheque book, and with many wider issues affecting Salford, we need a genuine voice more than ever ! The Salford Star, easily the most respected publication in Greater Manchester for journalistic integrity, can provide Salfordians (and the wider world) with all the latest news from the Salford area, VIVA LA EVOLUTION |
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Robert Brown wrote
at 19:45:33 on 14 February 2015 |
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| @Pamela Welsh as a member of the NUJ will you be demanding redundancy payouts for all the soon to be jobless paperboys and girls, what about the pensioners who deliver the Advertiser in all weathers to top up their pension? It seems you are only bothered about your old mates at the paper to me. As for you point on celebrating the loss of this non community orientated rag, that readers of this site should be writing to Trinity mirror can you explain why anybody who has "lost respect" for the publication should do that? As for your remark about "asking the bean counters to staff the newspaper properly, with well-qualified, dedicated journalists with enough resources to do the job properly" I can only chuckle, real journalism is about investigating and reporting the facts not copying and pasting the latest Salford council press release, if the Advertiser had done a bit more of the former over the last five years then it would not be in the position that it is now. It doesn't matter how many resources you have it's the integrity and quality not the qualifications of the staff or how many there are that matter. |
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My heart breaks. wrote
at 20:02:51 on 13 February 2015 |
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| We've had a whip around for the salford Labour Party advertiser, so far we've raised three gallon of petrol, they could go into producing toilet paper, after all the've printed Labour Party shit for donkey years, they wouldn't need any new machinery. They can put the Labour Party manifesto on it, that's all it's fit for, wiping your backside with. |
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john turner wrote
at 06:32:40 on 13 February 2015 |
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| Just a quick note of clarification, the Advertiser didn't incorporate the Reporter until 1987, when the Reporter (and its office on Liverpool Street) closed down. I was working there as Sports Editor at that very sad time. Like Pamela Welsh, I too grew to love Salford after being born in Manchester. I met my late wife in Salford and though I now live elsewhere I have nothing but fond memories of the city. It's also very sad that the last link with the Reporter, which was established in 1879, has now ended with the news this week. |
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Gary Taylor wrote
at 06:32:12 on 13 February 2015 |
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| Stopped visiting MEN years ago. Salford Gazette is much better. |
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Sam wrote
at 21:53:25 on 12 February 2015 |
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| Let's face it,'Before the bench' could be distributed in a much cheaper way. Don't know anyone who actually reads it anymore. However, the greatest loss to humanity will be 'show you are disgruntled by folding your arms and frowning even if you're not that bothered and make Salfordians look like simpletons' style of photography that has graced our letterboxes for the past 22 years. Not a great loss really. I'm sure we can do better! |
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Pamela Welsh wrote
at 21:22:35 on 12 February 2015 |
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| Hi Stephen. Basically, it's not clear what's happening with the jobs. I'm an outsider now, so I don't have anything concrete to add to the mix. From the outside, it looks like although there won't be any net job losses overall, it does look like the posts advertised will be more 'digital content' type stuff than actual journalism. I think that's a shame. I might be being unfair here, so don't quote me on that (as they say in the trade). What I'm amazed at, though, are the crass comments from some of your readers. When they say that there will be 'no loss' to the community, I'd urge them to think again. I'm not defending Trinity Mirror, but I am defending the current custodians of the paper who are trying their best to serve a community that, they too, have grown to love. Instead of gleefully rubbing their hands that the paper they've lost respect for is no more, perhaps your readers could write to the head of Trinity Mirror and ask them to reconsider? What about asking the bean counters to staff the newspaper properly, with well-qualified, dedicated journalists with enough resources to do the job properly? Finally, after I moved from the Advertiser and before I left journalism entirely, I moved to the MEN. I was covering north Manchester and much of my content would be used in the North and East Manchester Advertiser. That's the community that I now work in and I think it's brilliant. It's a great place to be - very different from Salford and not without its challenges - but it's a genuinely lovely place. The Advertiser closed just after I left in 2012. Now the community is left with nothing. The smaller stories that just aren't that exciting - who wins the best garden competition etc - well, they aren't suitable for the wider audience of the MEN. So where do they go? Alas, online, but we have a real issue with people who are digitally excluded because they can't afford the internet or don't have the skills to use it properly. So the community will suffer a loss about this, make no mistake. A city needs its own newspaper. It's heartbreaking. |
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The Fat End of The Wedge wrote
at 21:00:58 on 12 February 2015 |
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| I currently get it posted through my letterbox for free each week - over the years it has come and gone and come back again. Whilst I would most certainly not pay for it, the bits I found interesting were the letters page (to which I contributed now and then), some local stories that I hadn't seen elsewhere, and the council planning announcements - where will they be now?
I did actually find Graham Stringer's comments worth reading, Labour should put him in place of Ed.
Maybe somebody can step in and produce a booklet for the local tradesman to ply their wares in? |
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Terry Roberts wrote
at 21:00:55 on 12 February 2015 |
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| I am saddened by the loss of the Salford Advertiser, I haven't read it in about 2 years but I did look forward to it coming through the letterbox on a Saturday or if we were really lucky Friday evening. I just don't know what I will do now for a litter tray lining the Advertiser was really absorbant, which is surprising really as I didn't think sh1te was that good at soaking up p1ss. |
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Anthony Dowd wrote
at 21:00:00 on 12 February 2015 |
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| YET AGAIN Salford is relegated to only being a suburb of Manchester.
Good job The Salford Star is ready to step in.
I would get onto ALL those that advertise in there to get the business, before someone else does! |
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Dora.butterworth wrote
at 19:44:59 on 12 February 2015 |
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| We haven't had an advertiser delivered for well over a year.i have been buying it.hope this new paper takes off. |
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No loss wrote
at 19:44:45 on 12 February 2015 |
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| It will not make much difference to most of Salford, most of what is in the Advertiser is biased crap nowadays anyway. The real articles about Salford are a bit cringy most of the time as well with commonly the writers clearly not knowing the area they are writing about it's a common mistake for them to get mixed up with the names of major roads and parishes within Salford's areas. But what will Salford Labour do will all their propaganda statements sorry I mean press releases now, they refuse to talk to the Salford Star for fear of being "mis-interpreted" aka exposed. |
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Jayne Gosnall wrote
at 18:37:39 on 12 February 2015 |
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| The one thing I'd love to see the end of is Before the Bench, a disgusting bit of gloating over people's struggles. I'm shocked that the free paper is going to be targeting the people who can best afford to pay for it, whilst our poorer areas will miss out. Good luck to Salford Star. It's good to have some journalism challenging the status quo. On the basis that most journalism comes with an agenda, I'll be reading with the same healthy scepticism as I've always done! |
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Stephen Kingston - Salford Star wrote
at 18:34:52 on 12 February 2015 |
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| See Pamela's comment below - didn't mention the loss of jobs because the MEN have said that there'll be nine loss of jobs across all Greater Manchester titles but nine deployments on the new paper so assumed there wouldn't be any. If wrong can only apologise. No-one likes to see journalists or anyone else losing jobs. In your day Pamela the Advertiser was to be respected but it's now become a shadow, no fault of the over-worked and no doubt underpaid journalists. For us, an understaffed, under resourced paper that can't hold power to account is bad for democracy. PS One of my first ever articles was done for the Salford Reporter |
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Pamela Welsh wrote
at 18:27:21 on 12 February 2015 |
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| As a member of the NUJ, it's interesting that you haven't mentioned the loss of jobs from the paper. As you know, I worked there for three years. Personally, I thought it was a good paper, telling important stories about the residents of Salford. Certainly, as I posted on Salford Online last night, working on that paper gave me a real love of this city. That's why I've made it my home. It wasn't perfect and I agree that it is now a shadow of its former self. Whatever you think about it though, there are talented journalists who may be out of a job and in the interests of solidarity, I think it is worth saying that. I think it's a shame you didn't do that in your original post |
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noreen bailey wrote
at 16:54:36 on 12 February 2015 |
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| How brilliant is that i'm so pleased for you all at the star Steve its lie a breath of fresh air for all us Salford people truth honesty and support to all us that are fighting our causes and to say great big thanks for how you stood by us over our special transport regards Noreen |
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the end is near wrote
at 14:02:20 on 12 February 2015 |
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| Great news, the councils propaganda rag is on it's way out. Manchester evening news, write stories, investigate don't just print the crap the council/labour party send in.
Its only a matter of time before the MEN is deceased as well.
Salford star bringing real new from real people |
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stevo wrote
at 13:54:24 on 12 February 2015 |
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| This will be the final nail in the coffin for a lot of local small business that rely on the Ad section for customers.
A lot of self employed tradesmen & women will be hit hard by the closure.
I retired last year but when I was in business 90% of my custom came from Salford Advertiser ads. Such a shame. |
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Paul Gerrard wrote
at 13:54:21 on 12 February 2015 |
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| Few tears will be shed over the demise of the SA, as it just regurgitates the MEN. I had occasion to complain about the MEN's election coverage last year, which the journalist acknowledged was inaccurate, only to see it served up cold and uncorrected in the SA the following week. Roll on the Salford Star - can we call it the Pink 'Un?? |
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Chaz wrote
at 13:18:20 on 12 February 2015 |
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| Onwards and upwards Salford Star!!!!
If ever there was a case of karma..... |
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tony flynn wrote
at 13:18:15 on 12 February 2015 |
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| Just think, no more Before The Bench which is what a lot of people read the paper for!
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