Salford

Salford start big clear-out

Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008

PROP forward Paul Highton is said to be among a number of players being released by Salford at the end of the season.

Celtic Crusaders 20 Salford 10

Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008

MISSED chances proved costly as Salford Reds crashed to defeat in their final National League One clash.

Is This a Dagger I See Before Me?

Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

On the last night (Wed 24th Sept) of the Labour Party conference in Manchester, when the hurly-burly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won, there is a special performance of Macbeth at the Salford Lowry Centre, performed by the National Youth Theatre, and that's where you'll find local MP Hazel Blears and her husband… A play about plotting and assassination…a nice change from Labour Party...

Gold rush man Hoy gears up for next test

Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | yesterday

TRIPLE Olympic champion Chris Hoy will be back in the saddle tomorrow night at the Salford Nocturne event.

The Perfect Vest

Coquette (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008

The perfect item to take you from summer to fall is in my mind the little black vest. A little bit of menswear tailoring mixed in with a casual ease, this BDG Salford Vest ($48 at Urban Outfitters) is an...

Time To Scrap This Expensive E-Folly

Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008

Back in 2005, Salford City Council spent (if I recall correctly) around £30000 of taxpayers’ money on signing up to the Councillor.Info website project. John Cullen, then a Swinton South Labour Councillor, was appointed as the Council’s e-democracy champion to encourage his colleagues to sign up for the project. Unfortunately John didn’t set a terribly [...]

Army helps save Lowry church

Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | yesterday

News | advertisementArmy helps save Lowry churchGrace Fleming 29/ 8/2008THE Army has joined the fight to save the Miners' Cathedral made famous by LS Lowry.Widespread damage was caused to St Augustine's church in Pendlebury, Salford, when vandals broke the entrance cover to the cellars.Repeat attacks caused more than 8ft of water to flood rooms under the building. But with help of Territorial...

Manchester Labour - Taking Their Ball Home

Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

At last night’s Congestion Charge Debate - ably hosted by Manchester Junior Chamber of Commerce - the message from Sir Richard Leese was clear and unequivocal: “agree with me or get nowt”. It’s a depressing way to conduct political debate but also entirely inkeeping with the way in which the Labour Party do business in Greater Manchester - Salford’s Labour administration tried exactly the same...

McRae: Don't write off Hull

Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Rugby League| Shaun McRaeMcRae: Don't write off HullNeil Barker DO NOT be surprised to see Shaun McRae sitting on a fence outside Wembley on Saturday.The Salford Reds boss has divided loyalties at this year's showpiece Challenge Cup final, having coached both Saints and Hull during his career.McRae says he does not mind who wins and he will gladly celebrate and commiserate with both sets of...

Dead Socialist Watch, #318

The Virtual Stoa (Free subscription) | yesterday

... running a shop in Finsbury, then working as the “hostess” of the Owenite Social Institution in Salford, later touring the North as a popular lecturer on women’s rights. Here’s the title-page for a lecture given in Manchester: It’s not clear where she went politically from the 1840s; there are conflicting reports. She remarried a London pastry-cook in the 1850s. Born at Petworth, Sussex,...

Ex-GMP cop accuses Met

Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | yesterday

... Asian population in 1972.Two years later, aged 16, he began his career as a PC with GMP in Salford.At the time he was one of only two ethnic minority officers in a force of 6,000. But he rose through the ranks and became a Chief Inspector based at Eccles, before becoming a superintendent and transferring to Leicestershire Constabulary.He said he found himself in `unfamiliar and uncomfortable...

BE CERTAIN ABOUT TURF WRITERS WIN

New York Post (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

BE CERTAIN ABOUT TURF WRITERS WIN Loading new images... SARATOGA SPRINGS - And the finale. Steeplechasing wraps up its Saratoga stint with the Grade I New York Turf Writers Cup, today's eighth race. The $150,000 stakes lured a mixed field of nine, including the first three from the Smithwick three weeks ago. High Action, Dark Equation and Salford City all look live off that last effort, but...

Walking in My New FitFlops!

Aging Fabulous (Free subscription) | yesterday

... muscle response . Every step you take in your FitFlops helps tone and trim your legs: Studies at Salford University by Dr. Philip Graham-Smith and Richard Jones have shown that the FitFlop midsole extends the amount of time that the slow twitch* muscles are engaged during each step (by approximately 10-12%). So just by wearing a pair of FitFlops you’ll get more exercise while doing just...

Tribute to folk master Dylan

Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | yesterday

... and has even written a book, called Like The Night, about the event.CP, who is also a lecturer at Salford University, a founder member of Albert y Lost Trios Paranoias and writer of several other books (including When We Were Thin, a wonderful memoir of his time in the legendary loons, the Albertos).So CP's appearance at the festival, with his current band The Salford Sheiks actually...

• Bar's tribute to folk master Dylan - Manchester Online

Hope for demolition threat homes

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

... is required for the area." Mr Palin points to the award-winning Chimney Pot Park development in Salford as an example of how old terraced houses can be transformed. He said the Urban Splash scheme had "shown that by extending the houses in various ways and creating new, private or shared space around them you can create a wide variety of different accommodation". Toxteth Street resident,...