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SALFORD HAS 48 NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES AS PANDEMIC’S IMPACT ON CHILDREN HIGHLIGHTED
 

Star date: 29th September 2020

CHILDREN'S COMMISSIONER CALLS FOR RECOVERY PACKAGE FOR CHILDREN

Salford has 48 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, bringing the cumulative total to 2,967. There have been no new virus-related deaths announced by Salford Royal Hospital.

Meanwhile, today, the Children's Commissioner, Anne Longfield, has published a major report into the mostly negative impact of the pandemic on children, while making a number of recommendations, including targeted help for disadvantaged kids.

Full details here...


Salford coronavirus cases 28th September
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Salford has 48 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, bringing the cumulative total to 2,967, up from the previous day's 2,919.

Elsewhere in Greater Manchester, cases in Manchester rose to 7,026 (up from 6,907), followed by Bolton 4,637 (up from 4,570), Oldham with 4,128 (up from 4,079), Wigan 3,361 (up from 3,326), Rochdale 3,261 (up from 3,225), Tameside 2,934 (up from 2,905), Stockport 2,647 (up from 2,618), Trafford 2,281 (up from 2,253) and Bury 2,556 (up from 2,510).

There have been no new virus-related deaths announced by Salford Royal Hospital.

Meanwhile, today, the Children's Commissioner, Anne Longfield, has published a major report, Childhood in the Time of Covid, which 'calls for a comprehensive recovery package for children and provides a roadmap for what should be done to help children to recover from their experiences of the last six months and the ongoing crisis'.

While the pandemic has led to benefits for some children spending more time with their families, the report highlights how "for many of the most vulnerable children the disruption of the last six months has been damaging and compounded existing inequalities"...

The report states that the numbers of children living in 'risky home situations', like where there's domestic abuse, or alcohol and drugs dependency, or with parents who have severe mental health conditions, will have swelled, while the disruption to education has led to the Commissioner predicting "a widening of the attainment gap between children from disadvantaged or vulnerable backgrounds and their peers".

There has also been a "cocktail of secondary risks" leading to children "disproportionately suffering" and the Commissioner argues that children in care, children in custody and children with Special Educational Needs or disabilities "have seen their rights actively downgraded at a time when protections should have been increased, not weakened".

She calls for the Government to help those families who have built up rent arrears during the crisis, to keep the £20 uplift in Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit, which was due to expire in April 2021, and for an additional £10 per week child payment to be introduced.

Other recommendations include that schools should target their portion of the £1billion catch up fund on vulnerable and disadvantaged children who have lost out the most and shouldn't be forced to spend it on PPE, supply teachers or adaptations to school buildings; and that every child should have access to a counsellor in school; that next year's exams should be pushed back as far as possible, while ensuring that results are given in time to sort out colleges and universities for the autumn term.

She also argues for children to be put at the heart of planning for further lockdowns, so that schools are the last to close and the first to reopen; for children's rights and protections to be upheld; for local authorities to ensure that respite services
for disabled children and their families continue to operate; and that children under twelve should be exempt from the 'rule of six'.

"Children have fewer health risks from Covid-19 and yet they have suffered disproportionately from the nation's efforts to contain the virus" says Anne Longfield, Children's Commissioner "While it has been good to see a greater understanding in parts of Whitehall and Westminster about what it means to be a vulnerable child, many of the decisions taken over the last six months have not put children first. While pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops opened, the majority of children were not able to attend school.

"Unless the Government acts now, Covid-19 is in danger of becoming an inter-generational crisis, with the impact of the economic fall-out on parents determining the future prospects of their children" she adds "This would decimate the Government's ability to level-up opportunity across the country in the way the Prime Minister has repeatedly promised to do.

"The scale of the response to Covid-19 has shown us how our society can respond to huge challenges" she explains "After all the sacrifices children have made over the last few months, we should repay them with a comprehensive recovery package, 'a Nightingale moment', that puts their interests first."

The report has been backed by the National Education Union, or NEU...

"This academic year cannot be education as normal" says Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the NEU "Schools and colleges will need to be at the heart of ensuring that children and young people get the pastoral care and positive learning experiences. The Government needs to get and keep the conditions in place to make sure schools can be safe enough for children, families and staff – and this means much more testing, more teachers and smaller classes. 

"We agree with the Children's Commissioner that a greater focus on pastoral care and support for families needs to happen right now, including through accelerating the implementation of the Government Green Paper" she adds "We agree every child that needs it must be able to access counselling via their school. Schools must be supported to deliver a slimmed down curriculum involving more time for outdoor activities, art and creative work as this will boost engagement with learning and positive progress at school.

"Government plans for education must include ensuring that no child is left behind because of poverty" she says "It is not right that children from low income backgrounds struggle to access the basics they need to learn. Thousands of children arrive at school hungry, or without a comfortable, fitting uniform. Many do not have access to the internet at home, or a digital device to help them keep up with their peers at school. The NEU believes that free school meals must be provided for every young person with a parent eligible for Universal Credit and through every school holiday. Every disadvantaged young person without a device to access the internet needs to receive one to combat the digital divide."


To read the full report – Childhood in the Time of Covid – click here

pure class wrote
at 00:10:06 on 04 October 2020
me i aint worth anything well put bird brain rossi most profound thing you have wrote how true .
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Bob wrote
at 21:07:56 on 03 October 2020
Good historical stuff from Paul Kelly there.He knows his subject well.It gave me a bit of a thought. It made me think how wrong it was of our council to shut our mining museum.It made me think how wrong it was for the government to nick half the miners pension fund when they worked out it had too much cash. Some of these pilfered investments could have been used to support things like our mining museum,industrial, cultural heritage if you like.I used to love going in it when I was a kid. Since all pension funds are managed in the same way more or less, to the same rules, it is probably a fair guess to assume these excess funds were only built up because miners died earlier. Other funds tend to have shortages cos people live longer.The things we have done wrong.
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Deluded visionary wrote
at 19:26:23 on 03 October 2020
Rossi/Felse. £20 million hahahahaha! Why crowdfund to set up a company if you are a millionaire!? Loser! Salford Mayor!?! Let’s see if he gets the usual 100 or so votes and loses his deposit again (and again, and again). Nothing like using different pseudonyms to give yourself a boost. In other news, the Covid denier Trump isn’t very well is he?!?!
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Felsey wrote
at 18:38:36 on 03 October 2020
Blushing here - thank you Rossi for those inspiring words. Do not get concerned about the name calling it is all part of the Labour mind game. We know who we are it matters not that a crafty red fox tries to pull the wool over readers eyes. In terms of making a difference I have spent 10 years scrutinising Salford Labour and I know they got most things wrong. But alas I now have to admit I do not like some of the PMs methods on the Coronavirus policy. It takes me to visionary now see the next Mayor of Salford as an Independent willing to do the job for free in bringing back trust. I want you Rossi to know first that I now plan to launch soon as an Independent Candidate For Mayor. I will then as Mayor appoint three Deputy Mayors, one Labour, one Conservative and one to be coopted from the wider community. When my creative stage career made me The Lion King in concert I realised the diversity, inclusion, respect and equality are important for better solutions.
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ROSSI wrote
at 15:13:39 on 03 October 2020
Wrote, I haven't exposed myself, as I am not Michael J Felse. Although I wouldn't mind being him, as he's a visionary, with very deep pockets. Apparently he's worth twenty million quid, and that's not to be sniffed at. Me, I ain't worth anything, certainly not financially. Also, Michael is very possibly going to be the next Mayor of this city, and with that heady power comes great responsibility. But I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he's more than up to the task at hand. God bless you Micharl. You are what we need.
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at 10:53:10 on 03 October 2020
felse/ rossi you have exposed yourself just shows you for what you are felse a tory low life masquerading under the name of rossi i mean would a person in rossis position really advocate such tory views i think not he would have to have a screw loose you will never get anywhere in salford you are a misanthropic racist liar mr felse away with you .
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ROSSI wrote
at 10:43:19 on 03 October 2020
Wrote, you say that I'm Felse and that ip addresses are great, as if you're Jim Rockford or someone similar, maybe Philip Marlowe, and you simply show your pure ignorance. I write my diatribes to the SS on a mobile phone. It is payg, and because it is unlocked, over time I use different providers ... ergo I don't have a static ip address, as someone using a PC on broadband would. In fact, if I did, someone with my ip address would be able to use an ip checker and pinpoint the exact place where I live, but I use payg mobile.e internet, thus I am given different ip addresses by different providers, and they are temporary. You Numpers, all you do is show your bona fide Salford Labour ignorance.
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wrote
at 07:37:34 on 03 October 2020
Rossi yawn Rossi yawn boring yawn Rossi I'm tired yawn snooze Rossi what a load of shite
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paulkelly wrote
at 00:32:25 on 03 October 2020
Some information on the pit houses bob park lane west built by Andrew knowles colliery owners Clifton hall Agecroft Pendleton Wheatsheaf and Newtown and a few other pits along the irwell valley houses built for the miners were located near langley road Orchard st miners row demolished near Regatta st kay st still occupied and collier st agecroft st demolished under metal box factory pit houses were also built on Broomhall rd still standing they were built from the 1850s to the 1900s the managers house from Agecroft pit and Sandhole pit lived in what is now the Henry Boddington pub. in 1866 the miners at knowles pits had the brass neck to want to join a union the the MFGB the fore runner of the NUM they were objecting to women and children under 12 working in the pits this was against the law so Knowles sacked the local miners and a lock out began which resulted in Wheasheaf pit being set on fire and the local miners being kicked out of the knowles properties Knowles sent his agents to the Bilston area to recruit what the locals called knobsticks /scabs who were given the houses taken off the locals this led to riots with the Staffordshire men being assaulted and some murders the Bilston scabs were housed behind the windmill pub the area became known by the name of little Bilston all the house are now demolished in 1891 the knowles company were forced to recognise the MFGB further houses were built on moss road to house a further influx of men from Bilston in 1905 they are still standing. Knowles himself lived at the top of Lumbns lane clively view demolished the pit houses became the property of the national coal board with KnowleS being given a huge pay out. i knew a few miners who worked at agecroft who lived in the pit houses the rents were cheap a couple of lads still live in them they were well built and have stood the test of time of course all the pits have gone if you live in the Swinton Pendlebury Salford area check out your family history if your great great grandparents come from the Bilston area you owe it all to Andrew Knowles i met a women doing family history looking for a mining relative she told me his name he was called dyke she got a shock when i told her he was the man who caused the explosion at clifton hall pit in 1885.
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 21:25:28 on 02 October 2020
Rossi,what actually are you advocating as a solution to Salford's current problems? Have you ever achieved anything during the whole of your futile existence?
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 21:19:53 on 02 October 2020
Rossi,what actually are you advocating as a solution to Salford's current problems? Have
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wrote
at 19:30:43 on 02 October 2020
very wrong again drossi .
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wrote
at 19:30:16 on 02 October 2020
Rossi - we know you are also Felse. I.p. Addresses are great!
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ROSSI wrote
at 18:01:10 on 02 October 2020
Wrote, whom I suspect is Paul Kelly, your personal attacks on me are below the belt. I now know how Michael J Felse feels, as he has been the victim of such vitriolic attacks many many times over the years. If anything, being verbally abused by you in such a manner, merely increases my admiration for Michael. It takes a strong character to push onwards, in the face of such vitriol, but just like Michael, I also am strong. Your attacks and name calling will not have the desired affect on me. You silly socialists, be it you, Miss Becky (she was so out of touch with reality, she didn't even realise that she was more unelectable than old man Corbyn) or Ray of Sunshine, you effete dreamers, with your love of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, and your unswerving devotion to the demented ramblings of Father Marx, you insipid muppets are Not Fit For Purpose. Boris is a clown, but oh my, can you imagine how much worse muppets like Old Man Corbyn and Miss Becky would have been at dealing with the novelle Coronavirus. I'm just so glad that you Socialist will never be able to destroy this beloved country of ours. You Socialists .... 🤔
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at 17:04:52 on 02 October 2020
Felse is aged over 70 according to Companies House. In view of 74 aged Donald Trump’s COVID-19 it is time to ban those aged over 65 such as Felse from taking public office to help keep them safe. Stand down Felsey the job is not worth risk with no vaccine.
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bob wrote
at 11:37:10 on 02 October 2020
I agree with Paul .Houses are for living in,not for buying and selling and making money on. Can he not see my point? Houses are for living in, not for buying and selling just to make money on, but they are also not for loosing money on. Salford council in the last 75 years has built tens of thousands of council houses,let people wreck them and pulled them all down.They have wasted hundreds of millions of pounds doing this. Lets compare this to my favourite , and perhaps Pauls as well, housing that was purpose built for the workers,namely the miners, them houses with downstairs bathrooms near agecroft pit. Built just after the war, these houses were all for rent at one time, but over the years, the people who lived in them ,probably all miners bought them.Many people who live there now are descendants of the first tennants. Not been there for a few years, but I guess it is still always the nice respectable , decent working class area it always was. It is not a posh area,It is just right.If I were not settled where I am, I would love to live in one of them nice cosey quasi semis down there. This estate is a shining example about how housing should be for ordinary working class people. I know for a fact that there are still dozens of former miners living down there. If any of them are reading this, could they make themselves known, and also let us know if they would like their estate taken over by Salix,City West , Pendleton Together or the Council.
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at 11:00:12 on 02 October 2020
what an absolute pair of idiotic useful tools for their masters the ruling class keep tugging the forelock rossi and reality check are rossi allegedly lives off jsa/housing benefit thank god this pair have never risen above the slime what miserable cynical lives they lead you pair of custard guts are living off the legacy of brave people who believed in the fight for a better world and the creation of the british welfare state which had to be fought for by the working class it was not given and it was won by people who were told it will never happen told by cowardly weasels like you worms of subservience thankfully for you scrotes who now benefit from the fight they waged against injustice we have the nhs education rights at work and many other benefits from the people who stood up and were counted your ignorance is quite astounding i would say you are a hairs breath from the streets and you rossi would be if it was not for people who were prepared to stand up and say a better way is possible hang your head in shame rossi will you and the other idiots who act against your own best intrests ever learn what trauma turned you in to such a sad lonely person who wishes misery on others get some help you have nothing positive or constructive to say you have the mind of a ten year old and are stupid thats not a compliment by the way get some help all though i think you are to old and past it in all a hopeless case .
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wrote
at 08:14:23 on 02 October 2020
Carlos - Felse, we know it’s you, stop with the smoke and mirrors, stop living in your glory years when you found out a councillor was on the fiddle and grasses him up. Get your own house in order before you go pointing fingers cos guess what you have three more pointing back at you.
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PAULKELLY wrote
at 00:20:13 on 02 October 2020
Well bob Paul can say this i was a member of the labour party in 1976 i lasted one week before i was kicked out the issue i was asked to leave about labour party housing policy i have lived in council housing all my life out of principle houses are for living in not making money out of or for selling for profit i have defended the principle of council housing all my life and i have been active in trying to save the council housing stock for decades from privatisation sell offs and the demolition of decent housing i have stood against the labour party on this and other issues electoraly i have no illusions in the labour party to deliver for the working class labour are elected by workers but they run the system for the bosses and we know who tories represent that said i have worked with many principled people in the labour party i supported Jeremy Corbyn and it is a tragedy that his labour party was not elected last December I WILL WORK WITH ANY MEMBER OF THE LABOUR PARTY who puts the needs of our most vulnerable people first if they do not i will not be silent on the other hand i would rather eat grass than collaborate or work with any Tory on any issue they can go to hell. do you recall that i told you to read the Seamus milne book the enemy within about the Demonisation of Arthur Scargill and the miners you obviously have not read it because you are again peddling untruths the only person who destroyed our miners and mining communities was thatcher and in doing so wrecked and destroyed the industrial heart of Britain.in 1972 74 miners went on strike for a wage rise and a pension Arthur Scargill was one of the leaders during the strikes he demanded as part of a return to work a pension for all miners and that is how i and many other miners are surviving to day it was wrong to close the pits without having a cheap source of energy when the coal was providing power we did not have fuel poverty or people being unable to keep warm pensioners dying from the cold and an energy supply that is on the verge of shutdown which happened during the summer when the lights were only kept on by the power from the coal fired power station at ratcliff on soar the coal is imported to this country currently 52 million tons per year which could have been provided by British miners in British pits many miners sons would gladly work in the pits and bring back the pride they have lost which has been replaced by the drug culture prevalent in most British towns and cities today the lack of hope and despair is tangible in the former coalfields i suggest bob you and the other misinformed go to the miners gala in Durham if it takes place in july 2021 take little plackard and write on it maggie was right to close the pits.Now on another issue many Salfordians taking the bus to town will have noticed they are being driven away from the stops at Victoria train station on the journey in and being taken to shudheill bus station via trinity way new bridge st past the arena this means any person who wishes to catch a train at victoria a major transport interchange has to walk back down to the train station from shudehill this is quite a trek for disabled or elderly people i Enquired as to who had decided to implement this crackpot re routing and was told by transport for greater Manchester that they had been ordered by man city council now dont laugh to avoid buses passing each other on Withy grove has part of social distancing so now we know how to avoid catching the virus avoid buses they are carrying the virus and if a bus goes past you hide or you may catch the virus on a serious note i have written a letter of complaint on behalf of all the people who have been and will be greatly inconvieneianced by this stupid decision i urge others to do the same and demand the bus route past the station in to manchester is restored.
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Mr Kellys reality check wrote
at 19:43:05 on 01 October 2020
@Rossi, yes, yes and yes again. But it's not just people like Mr Kelly that don't understand this, a lot of the younger generation fail to grasp it even when you ask them "who runs the streets where you live" they fail to see this analogy. It don't matter if you are left, right or centre you bow down to the 5%. Same applies in estates all over salford same applies with race, wealth, community status, and the same applied in the pits, the NUM were the 5% the miners at the face were the 95%.
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Bob wrote
at 13:36:18 on 01 October 2020
What Rossi fails to add,is that stupidity, lazyness, selfishness and personal greed are also the biggest helpers our ruling class have in our country. People are that thick, they ask for what they get. I recall the pathfinder scheme. Instead of putting in a bit of effort,and sticking together and fighting, people just told others to shut up and wait till you found out what "the council has decided". Sadly ,until people like Paul can turn round and say "Yes, Salford Labour Council shit on all the working class people with their pathfinder scheme, and what they did was totally wrong" then we will never learn from our mistakes. I also would have closed the mines down, but for different reasons to Thatcher. But one thing for sure, I would not have shit on the miners like Thatcher and Scargill did. I would have made sure they all had secure ,and as well paid or better employment than they had down the pit. The lads who work on them wind turbines get more cash than the mine lads did. All politicians and big companies are out to screw us.You just got to fight back.
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at 13:13:58 on 01 October 2020
I Just checked on company search what Bob said.There is another guy who also owns the same number of shares as tim heatly. 14168 each they have. The others in jersey. could only find a bit about the manchester thing, nothing to add to what bob said.
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ROSSI wrote
at 11:58:55 on 01 October 2020
Paul Kelly, you want to keep smoking the opium, because your Martin Luther King-esque "I Have A Dream" is not feasible. It's just a pipe dream, a pipe dream that is dreamed by idealists who suffer from arrested development. They're stuck in being Forever Twenty. I'm going to give you a lesson now, Son. A lesson in reality. It goes like this. Human Beings are social animals, and as with all social animals, be it a troop of Chimpanzees, a pack of wolves, or a pride of lions, five percent of the group "control" the other ninety five percent. And this is true with the human race too, whatever your ideology, or theology, five percent "rule" and ninety five percent "follow". Some examples for you. In a Communist nation, ie the defunct Soviet Union, or modern day China, five percent of the population have control. It's just the same in Capitalist Europe, or the United States, or in oil rich Middle Eastern nations such as Saudi Arabia. It's also the same on a prison wing, where if you have sixty inmates, five of the inmates will be running the rackets and taxing most of the others, or even in the realm of un-incarcerated criminality out on the streets of every town and city on Planet Earth, the Big Fish, who constitute five percent of the total, ponce off the rest. This is a universal law amongst social animals. Five percent Always Rule. It's always been like this. Go back thousands of years, and the tough guy with fourteen kids and twelve brothers and sisters, becomes the village chief, then he becomes the King, then his family of thugs become Royal ... and everyone else pays taxes or dies. Your fantasy of the workers being in charge in a society of equality, is just that, pure fantasy. It goes against the unwritten law of social animals - that five percent ALWAYS Rule.
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Carlos wrote
at 08:51:53 on 01 October 2020
This are interesting comments on page. Where is the offshore cash going to who. Why so much councillors leaving next year. Will this be the year of investigations under a new mayor in the city hall. Me I know only one what will give us the investigations to make public anythink we needs to know. Guess who is name.
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paulkelly wrote
at 23:34:24 on 30 September 2020
I want to see a socialist society where the people who create the wealth in society the workers control the means of production distribution and exchange share common ownership and profit from the fruits of the wealth they collective create for the benefit of all. we are currently in the latest crisis of capitalism caused by the covid virus and we can see all around us that the capitalist system/market economy is ready to condemn workers millions of them mainly young people starting there working careers to years of unemployment and poverty like millions of workers skilled industrial workers whose lives of themselves and there families were wrecked under the policies of the tory thatcher. as a former miner i saw first hand and have lived through thatchers destruction of the mining steel car docks and textile industries and the misery which was caused to millions of hard working decent people through the stealing of state assets and given sometimes for nothing to the privateers who have now reduced peoples living standards we have fuel poverty massive household debt water poverty massive homelessness the most expensive private railway system in the world a private bus system which is expensive and companies who only run services for profit not need we live in a country that boasts reserves of gas coal and natural resources to last for a thousand years we are surrounded by water full of fish a massive amount of land for farming and yet under this system we have hunger and food banks and privation caused by the market economy the economy of waste and misery which will only allow private gain and profit for the minority not the majority we are in this position because of thatchers free market dogma this is not blame its fact plutocrats like thatcher Blair and other lying politicians come and go i want to see an end to capitalism and i believe in fighting for a better world for all.
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Bob wrote
at 12:32:00 on 30 September 2020
Paul Kelly is an old style socialist who has done a lot of good in our community and means well.Nobody can question his honesty and integrity.His only fault is always blaming the Torys, Blairshites, and Brownshites for all our financial problems. Well, these 3 gangs of turds do have a lot to answer for, but the militant left labour is just as bad as well. Look at our mayor Dennett the other week on telly, right up the arse of his new pal Tiny Tim. Do a company search on Tim and you will find 14000 shares in his company Capital and Centric are held by him , and 16000 shares are held by a Jersey company. Look across the water in Manchester. The labour council there have lent £11million to a Cayman Island company. Isle of Man, Jersey companies you can find who owns them and they do pay a bit of tax.Cayman Island companies are total secret and pay Fuck all tax.Manchester council must know who this cash is going to.People have got to get it into their heads that Labour is not on their side. Our lot are all going next May so I am told, but I keep hearing different reasons as to why. The stories are all good, but I do not believe my fortune is. I will be the first to bare my arse on the town hall steps in celebration if they do get kicked out in may.
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paulkelly wrote
at 01:10:13 on 30 September 2020
Scrap Trident nuclear weapons of mass destruction for a start then shut all the tax loopholes and off shore banking islands jersey and the isle of man and make the greedy bastards who make money off our labour pay their way in the country they make that money in the UK. plenty of money in this country when Jeremy Corbyn offered free broadband he was accused of threatening financial security and bankrupting the country so wheres boris found the money the magic money tree its called the bank of England and the government owns the bank of England so it lends to itself magic the government gave a trillion pounds to its own bank in 2010 it prints money to its self it cant go boost there is no debt do not heed the bosses tales. Gordon Brown was asked how much money was available to fight blairs wars he replied the war chest is bottomless. we are all covered by a system thats had its day it is incapable of delivering to the needs of the people for a start we need to reinstate the welfare state savagely destroyed by years of thatchers malice increase social security to a standard where people can live with dignity and not rely on food banks and charity.
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TerryD wrote
at 11:31:33 on 29 September 2020
And where is the money for these rescue packages going to come from? How about the parents looking after the health, both mental and physical, of their kids for a change? The UK is in hock to the tune of trillions, the chances of us getting out of that debt are very small indeed.
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Darren born bred wrote
at 10:46:58 on 29 September 2020
There is now over 25 Salford schools that have sent home lots of pupils to self isolate at home because there has been a few cases of Chinese flu in the school. But half the kids are not self isolating because they are out with mates roaming the streets spreading germs onto the Joe public. There is over 300 schools in the greater Manchester areas that have got cases of Chinese flu and sent pupils home to self isolate and it's gonna get much much worse.. I'm off now to Gregg's for my bacon sausage barm.
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A WHIFF OF FREEDOM AS RESTRICTIONS ARE EASED

Salford has 7 new coronavirus cases, down from the previous day's 14, while the seven day rate per 100,000 population now stands at 30.1, down from 30.9. There have been no new virus-related deaths announced by Salford Royal Hospital.

Today sees restrictions eased and the first whiff of freedom in over a year. It's also the final coronavirus bulletin from the Salford Star which is closing. Here we look back over 14 months of the pandemic and the absolute communication failings of Salford City Council and its City Mayor.

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SALFORD STAR CLOSURE: HOW SALFORD COUNCIL TRIED TO STOP THE STAR

Star date: 16th May 2021

THEY WILL TRY TO DISCREDIT YOU...TO BLOCK YOU, TO SHUT YOU DOWN

We are almost at the final closure of the Salford Star but we write this article as a warning to others who may follow on the pitfalls of founding a genuine publication that aims to give the community a voice and hold public bodies up to account. 

They will try to discredit you, block information and shut you down. In South America they just blow up the offices of journalists that don't play the game. Here they just financially assassinate you...

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SALFORD STAR CLOSURE – GUY GRIFFITHS ON THE HUMAN COST OF PATHFINDER DEMOLITIONS

Star date: 16th May 2021

THE HUMAN COST OF REGENERATION

The Griffiths brothers of Higher Broughton are kind of infamous as the only people to be forcefully evicted from their house as part of the Pathfinder 'housing market renewal' project during the first decade of the 21st Century.

Here, Guy Griffiths, now living in 'sunny' north Wales and one of the main inspirations for the Salford Star's creation, writes the second part his own personal view of the Government project that devastated communities throughout Central Salford.

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