An art event is being held in Salford as part of a wider programme of activities to celebrate Refugee Week (16 - 22 June) in the city.
20,000 carers will benefit from a new emergency scheme launched in Salford next week to celebrate National Carers Week (9-15 June 2008).
Salford City Council has won a national award for the way it pays its bills.
Visitors planning a trip to Salford can now benefit from an informative, easy to use, new website that will make deciding where to go a whole lot easier.
An Eccles off-licence has become the first in Salford to be permanently banned from selling alcohol.
A Salford school is one of only four schools in the country to host a new hi-tech roadshow - giving pupils a taste of what a career at mediacity:uk might be like.
After a hugely successful series of screenings and events in 2007, Salford Film Festival is now attracting international interest from Greek film festival Psarokokalo.
Salford City Council has won another national award for its website, recognising it as one of the easiest to use of its kind in the country.
Six times more cardboard and paper and five times more glass, plastic and cans are now being collected in those parts of Salford where the big recycle roll-out has already taken place; boding well for the future of the scheme when it is adopted throughout the rest of the city.
Nearly 7,000 skaters helped make Salford's first Winter Wonderland a slideaway success, figures from the city council reveal.
Salford's GCSE results are the second most improved nationally, according to figures published today (18 October) by the department for children, schools and families
Salford City Council is celebrating after hearing the news that one of its historic gems, Ordsall Hall, won the accolade of ‘Small Visitor Attraction of the Year’ at the 2007 Northwest Tourism Awards
A Salford warehouse has been fined £10,500 for not properly protecting workers from health and safety risks.
Households in Salford are breathing easier, with over 1,000 homes across the city signing up to the Smoke Free Homes promise - a service run by local social enterprise, Community Health Action Partnership (CHAP).
The landlord of a property in Kersal who chose to evict his tenant rather than carry out essential improvements to make the property fit to live in, has been prosecuted in a case brought by Salford City Council.
Salford City Council has launched an innovative scheme to provide people with the opportunity to have a card, which will support them to make an advance decision on their finances and medical state, should they become mentally incapable due to illness or as a result of accident or learning difficulties.
Trick or treaters in Salford are being urged to have fun this Halloween but to not turn the occasion into a nightmare for others.
Salford's international reputation has drawn a New Zealand council manager thousands of miles around the world to see for himself what makes the city special.
Salford's Mayor played host to some of the city's students after their schools were described as "outstanding" by government inspectors
Entrepreneurs in Salford will have their eyes fixed firmly on the prize as Salford City Council launches a competition for the best enterprise ideas, to turn them into a reality - offering financial injections of £500-£2,000, depending on the quality of proposals.
Salford people are being invited to play a crucial role in shaping how their city will look in the future, following the launch of a consultation to take on board their thoughts on the matter.
Salford's newest school opened its doors to pupils for the first time on Monday, marking the completion of a £6.5 million investment and another step in Ordsall's regeneration.
The owner of an Eccles takeaway has been prosecuted for failing to clean up his act despite repeated visits and warnings from city council health inspectors.
An Eccles teenager has been given an ASBO after a series of incidents, including abusing police community support officers, trespassing and drunkenness
Children in Little Hulton have joined forces to rid their streets of the Litter Monster to mark the end of a month- long environmental project.
Salford will be going for gold next week when it hosts a mini-Olympics as part of a cultural exchange with young people from Romania.
Salford City Council is putting the mark on thieves who target its schools.
Visitors to the Irlam and Cadishead annual summer festival on Monday 27 August are invited to play a vital role in the launch of their community's exiciting new piece of public art, set to launch later this autumn.
Salford has once again demonstrated an outstanding improvement in this year's GCSE results, showing an increase of nice percentage points in the average number of pupils gaining five or more A*-C grades.
Council homes in West Salford are set to receive £930m investment after tenants voted in favour of transferring their homes from the ownership of Salford City Council to new social landlord- City West Housing Trust.
Next Thursday (23 August) 2,000 young people across Salford will be getting their GCSE results, and while some students will get the results they'd expected, for others it may mean having to rethink their next step and that is where where2nxt.com can help.
There may be more than 130 shopping days to go but Salfordians are being asked to make an early start on their Christmas lists and spare a thought for young homeless people in their city.
Salford's teenagers of today are getting the chance to become the media movers and shakers of tomorrow.
Salford's primary schools are among the most improved in the country, a government report revealed this week.
There may be more than 130 shopping days to go but Salfordians are being asked to make an early start on their Christmas lists and spare a thought for young homeless people in their city.
Salford's teenagers of today are getting the chance to become the media movers and shakers of tomorrow.
The green light has been given to more than £150m worth of investment to ambitiously transform secondary education in Salford, with funds earmarked to provide every high school in the city with state-of-the art ICT facilities.
Celebrating a cross generational arts project called DREAMS, children from primary schools in Salford will be meeting with elders from the Yemeni community at St Andrews Primary School, Barton Lance Eccles for a 'cultural exchange' on Monday July 2, involving performance and storytelling.
Salford City Council is appealing for information following the theft of the Weaste Cemetery railings.
The railings, which are Grade II listed by English Heritage, were originally installed in 1887.
Reading is definitely a pleasure for visitors to Irlam Library, Salford, as the interior has undergone a major refurbishment to allow people to relax and unwind in a contemporary, inviting environment
City bosses are planning a new drive to boost one of the region's busiest roads.
Salford MP Hazel Blears joined council bosses and government anti-social behaviour advisors this Friday (1 June) to celebrate Salford becoming the first area in the country to introduce new measures to clampdown on unscrupulous landlords.
Salford will be the first area in Greater Manchester to get 'Talking CCTV' when it goes live in Eccles this week (Wednesday 30 May).
Lucky Salford prizewinner, Carol Wilson, will soon be relaxing in her new look dining room thanks to a make-over she has won as part of the city's launch of its Smoke Free Homes campaign
Salford's new Mayor Councillor Val Burgoyne was installed yesterday, the city's first woman mayor for 22 years.
Caring for a child or young person as a foster carer is probably one of the most rewarding things a person can do.
All 10 councils in Greater Manchester are working together to produce a 'Joint Waste Development Plan Document' (JWDPD) for the county. It will develop planning policies for managing waste, identify sites for waste facilities and provide policies to help determine planning applications
An Eccles trader whose staff were caught selling drink to under-18s employed by Salford City Council to do test purchases has been banned from selling alcohol for sixth months and fined £750.
Residents throughout Greater Manchester are being asked to help draw up a plan to provide facilities for managing waste across the county.
Litterbugs better beware in Salford with the announcement of government funding for the first 'Talking CCTV' scheme in Greater Manchester.
Pupils in primary schools across Salford are being inspired to get creative and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city's authentically recreated Victorian Street, Lark Hill Place, as part of a citywide campaign that is being launched.
Physically disabled and sensory impaired people across Salford are being invited to have a greater say in how local services are shaped and developed to improve their lives.
With the BBC announcing its move to the city and numerous regeneration schemes, Salford is definitely proving itself a forward looking city, but its newly-revamped industrial heritage website is giving people a chance to explore the city's intriguing and influential past.
Broughton could get a new primary school if plans are approved by Salford City Council's ruling cabinet, next week.
Salford City Council's website has been ranked as one of the top 20 most developed local council websites in the country.
Design guru Wayne Hemingway is to help launch a funky new approach to building design in Salford, this month.
Salford City Council has achieved a three star rating from government inspectors.
The three out of four score from the Audit Commission gives an independent assessment of how the city council is performing overall.
The director of a company which imported unsafe off-road bikes and then supplied them to a store with branches nationwide has been fined £2,500 and has had to pay over £2600 in costs (Monday 12 February) after a case was brought by Salford Trading Standards.
Business people, shoppers and visitors to Manchester City Centre were stopped in their tracks when they saw a team of street theatre experts from Ordsall Community Arts in action outside the Pumphouse People's History Museum, bringing plans for a huge urban park to life.
In anticipation of the national legislation that will ensure smoke free public places and workplaces from 1 July this year, Salford is encouraging businesses to prepare themselves.
New Prospect, Salford Council's housing ALMO, has made three changes in its governing board and senior management team.
An Eccles teacher who was forced to flee Uganda in the 1970s has been invited to be a guest speaker at Salford's Holocaust Memorial Day event on Thursday 25 January.
City bosses are to fight on to protect maternity services at Hope Hospital.
If its new year, new job you're after then an event in Pendleton this Thursday (1 February) could help you in your quest.
It's new for old in Higher Broughton in Salford, with the area's first home swap residents settling into brand new properties as part of the large-scale redevelopment of the area.
Plans to close five primary schools and build two new ones in the Langworthy area of Salford have been approved this week.
Around 120 children and parents will be gathering together on Wednesday 10 January from 10am - 1pm in Little Hulton, Salford, to step into a magical kingdom of storytelling, thanks to the arrival of the BBC RaW Cities.
Fried squid and Spanish sardines from the Philippines, luncheon meat from China, Tuna from India and the heads of illegally slaughtered sheep
A renewed crackdown on off-road bikes in Salford's nuisance hotspots starts this month.
Victoria Park in Swinton's in tune with the festive season with everyone invited to an evening of carols next Friday (22 December).
'What a fantastic year we've had!'
A youth club for hearing impaired youngsters has helped inspire one profoundly deaf young person to aim for new career horizons.
Salford City Council is to switch its 400-plus vehicle fleet to an environmentally-friendly bio-diesel fuel.
Sick of buying socks, jaded with jumpers? If you're struggling with imaginative Christmas present ideas, then a slice of Salford history might just be the answer....
Salford's social services teams are delivering excellent care, government inspectors say.....
Salford chiefs are delighted with the prospects arising from their recent visit to China....
Salford City Reds have gone white to show their support of the need to tackle domestic abuse.
Beech Farm residents in Swinton are set to get the community garden they've dreamed of after scooping £50,000 in the Big Lottery funded ITV People's Millions competition...
A Salford trader has become only the second in the city to have his licence to sell alcohol withdrawn for selling to people who are under age...
Plans are now underway to involve schools, pupils and other stakeholders in deciding what the city's schools of the future will be like...
Councillors have signed a Road Peace Pledge this week, promising to do more to cut road accidents in the city...
Afrocats will be the explosive opening theatre event of Exodus Onstage 2006...
Government's decision to approve a new rugby stadium for Salford City Reds is welcomed...
The newly refurbished Fit City Irlam re-opened on Friday, 3 November followed by a family fun weekend of taster sessions...
Drivers have faced the consequences of not 'belting up' in the latest clampdown on the city's seatbelt skivers...
Charlestown and Lower Kersal residents are being urged to have their say on child care services in their area...
Residents who have already used grants to fit high-tech renewable energy equipment in their homes have saved enough energy to make to make 515,740 cups of coffee...
An even closer eye is being kept on Albert Park in Broughton with the appointment of three new park rangers who will be based there...
Holy Cross and All Saints R.C. Primary school receive the prestigious DfES International School Award at a high profile awards ceremony in London...
An ale trail organised as part of the city-council led Salford Food & Drink Festival aims to show there's a lot more to the town's history...
Former three time Olympic medallist, World and European Commonwealth champion, Kriss Akabusi made a guest appearance at Salford's Community and Social Care Awards at Buile Hill Park...
Forty-eight homes in Winton become the first in Salford to get new protection from bogus callers this week...
More than £400,000-worth of improvements are about to boost the popular footpaths along the Roe Green and Tyldesley looplines...
The team behind Irwell City Park is challenging international architects, landscape designers and engineers to submit their plans to realise this incredible vision....
Government statistics show Salford schools as having achieved the best improvement in attendance in the Northwest this year - and the city's education bosses believe there's more to come...
Democracy is not just about voting, the council works for you so why not see how we do it?...
Hope High School has been given the go-ahead to bid for Academy status, following the DfES decision to approve a detailed feasibility study....
The International Triathlon Union today (4 September 2006) announced that Budapest would be the host city for the 2010 World Championships...
Salford and Manchester are joining forces to put forward a £25-plus million bid to central government to transform deprived areas through encouraging and supporting enterprise across both cities...
Well established as a venue for world class sporting events, Salford is all set to host the World Biathle Championships on Sunday 3 September...
A crackdown on bus crime is yielding results with as it falls by almost a quarter during the first six months of the year...
The council has taken a new spin on "show and tell" with a DVD showcasing its commitment to improving the environment, while encouraging residents to join in its mission....
The Wilkinson Corporation is named as preferred development partner for the Buile Hill Mansion...
Almost 2000 children from across the Northwest will be descending upon Salford Sports Village this weekend (5 and 6 August) to take part in one of the biggest sporting events in the country...
Already a Local Nature Reserve, Clifton Country Park joins Blackleach Country Park and Victoria Park as they both celebrate having their Green Flag status renewed...
A summer clampdown on mini-motos to raise awareness of problems people are facing and the penalties for misuse...
Residents will now be able to get a helping hand with their DIY, following the launch of a new citywide handyperson service this week...
Potential hold-ups and disruption are likely in the west of the city when major roadworks start on Worsley Road on Monday 31 July...
Magistrates handed a final warning to a Salford fly tipper on Thursday 27 July...
New Deal for Communities team help a group of Charlestown ladies relocate to to their new home...
Tacking the nuisance of litter and dog dirt on our streets with tough new fines, designed to stop people making the city mucky...
Local people are being asked to help unlock the potential of Cadishead Park by suggesting what improvements they would like to be see...
Education bosses are drawing up ambitious plans to transform secondary schools into state of the art buildings within the next 10-15 years...
If you're planning an event, make sure there's one important piece of paper you've not forgotten...
Councillors have today been mourning the sudden death of Ivor Zott, a former mayor of Salford from 1981-1982...
A Salford man who was caught with counterfeit CDs, DVDs and games worth close to £125 thousand has been jailed for 12 months. ...
Salford has been confirmed as the 'leading bidder in principle' to host a new BBC Media City development...
Finance expert David Burdis has won a national award for his work helping people get the help they need...
Buile Hill High School has been recognised for its creative flair with a second prestigious arts mark gold award...
Following the Red Cinemas' successful screening of "Alone and Homeless", a new initiative has been launched to provide support and to educate young people on homelessness...
One of the region’s finest food manufacturers pull together a relay team entry in July’s Salford Triathlon ITU World Cup...
Summer drink/drug drive campaign kicks off with a football theme...
Visit Swinton's award-winning Victoria Park this Summer to enjoy a packed programme of fantastic, free events and activities...
Light Oaks Infant School is a good school with some outstanding features - that's the view of Ofsted inspectors...
Members of the Home Office domestic violence team will be visiting Salford this Wednesday (24 May) to see the good work being done through the city's specialist domestic violence court...
With the BBC’s planned move to the north in 2010, an inspirational new media city to cover 200 acres of Salford Quays...
22-26 May is "Noise Action Week". What is a pleasurable sound to one person can be noise to another...
Salford looks forward to welcoming elite athletes from around the globe this July and thousands of home crowd spectators are guaranteed to give them a very warm reception...
The success of local firms in selling overseas was recognised recently at the presentation of the 2006 Salford Export Excellence Awards...
This week Salford is celebrating 40 years of links with two French and German towns, Clermont-Ferrand and Lünen...
Three generations of the same Salford family are saying 'Hands off Hope' as their baby photos feature on an Advan driving around the city....
Council officer Julie Blagden has the 'X' factor that could land her a top national award - with your help!...
A Salford parish priest who has dedicated 25 years to his community has been honoured with the Mayor's Citizen Award for April...
Salford's children have a bright future, say government inspectors...
Salford City Council is to be officially recognised as a three star council - the equivalent of 'good' under the old ratings...
Key players from the construction industry in Salford were given insight into how future employees are fine tuning their skills to meet the growing job opportunities as a result of large scale city-wide regeneration...
30 soldiers from a Company based in Clifton were honoured for their dedicated service in the Gulf by Major General, the Duke of Westminster at a formal ceremony....
Planes, trains and... paddle steamers? Salford's claim to fame as the birthplace of the transport revolution is being celebrated this spring in the latest phase of the city's successful Industrial Heritage Campaign...
More than 1500 tenants in Salford are set to benefit when new licensing laws come into force today (6 April)...
Dedicated Worsley volunteer Jean Barlow has earned the Salford Mayor's Citizen's award for March...
Seedley and Langworthy residents will celebrate a new future for their area with a fun festival this weekend...
A mobile police unit offering information on domestic abuse will be in Eccles this Saturday (25 March) to mark the end of an intensive two-month multi-agency crackdown in Salford...
Salford City Council services face disruption from industrial action next week, council chiefs have warned...
Salford's Mayor appeals to locals to help him trace the story behind a painting in the Mayor's Parlour...
Cadishead Park has got its very own Lone Park Ranger with the appointment of Holly Preston whose job it is to take care of the park and the people who use it...
Salford City Council is joining police and community representatives to reassure local people after an isolated shooting incident at the weekend...
The Seedley and Langworthy area is to benefit from a renewed clampdown on anti-social behaviour when a second dispersal order comes into force this week (24 February)...
Local woodlands have been given local nature reserve status by the city council to protect the site and its natural features for the benefit of residents and visitors....
Below-average council tax rises of around 3.2% for the city's 216,000-plus residents, for the second year in succession...
The very first ball was today rolled out (2 March) onto one of the brand new pitches at the £4.7m Salford Sports Village...
Home to 200 elite athletes from 42 countries across the globe, Salford Triathlon ITU World Cup 2005 earned the enviable title of Event of the Year at Manchester's Tourism Awards last night...
Kerbside Christmas tree collection boasts a 20% increase in the number recycled compared to last year...
A Salford school is celebrating the third in a series of triumphs following its successful bid for specialist status...
People with learning difficulties hope a film they have made will help save lives across the country...
Salford City Council is showing its commitment to reducing flood risk in Lower Broughton, by hosting a 'flood summit' for all partners involved in its regeneration...
If life begins at forty, then Walkden Library is preparing to celebrate in style as it marks the big four-o with a festival of events from 6th-18th February...
Plans are underway for a new school in the heart of the Langworthy, Weaste and Seedley area by 2009...
City council bosses are backing the campaign to save the city's hospital services for women, babies and children, this week...
A dream could be a reality for one young band in Salford as talented musicians prepare to compete in the first heat of the city's Battle of the Bands contest on 15 January...
Pupils from eleven secondary schools across Salford are proving that the 'book' stops with them...
Transport bosses in Salford are celebrating the launch of a new initiative, aimed at tackling crime and anti-social behaviour, by announcing plans to reinstate evening services on a popular bus route...
Trading standards chiefs have carried out a survey of Salford pubs...
Special education school has been declared an 'improving school' just two years after it was made subject to special measures...
In the campaign to reduce underage alcohol sales supermarkets and pubs are becoming more vigilant...
Your mince pies and left over turkey may well have gone, but Ordsall Hall intends on keeping that festive feeling alive a little bit longer with a Medieval Christmas celebration on Sunday 8 January...
A Salford heroine who intervened to stop a crazed knifeman from carrying out a street attack has earned an award from her home city...
The city acknowledges the significant voice of older people by involving them in assessing appropriate mainstream services...
The latest area in Salford to benefit from a clampdown on anti-social behaviour when a dispersal order comes into force next Friday (23 December)...
The Audit Commission has scored it as a 'two star' authority which is 'improving well', signalling there are more good things to come in the future....
A new Greater Manchester-wide scheme will give tenants more choice and better services...
Salford primary school wins a finalist award at a top industry ceremony...
A groundbreaking exhibition about the Second World War arrives at Salford Museum and Art Gallery...
Salford's Oakwood High School is an excellent school, say Ofsted inspectors...
Planning bosses have backed Salford City Reds' exciting plans for a state of the art 20,000 seater stadium...
A green fingered Salford resident has been awarded the Mayor's Citizen Award for his tireless work within the community over the past 37 years...
National Anti-Bullying Week (21-25 November) is being marked in Salford with a series of awareness-raising activities to help both adults and young people...
Salford is preparing to celebrate its 40 year relationship in style with French sister city, Clermont-Ferrand.
Salford's Mayor, Councillor Jimmy Hunt, is urging people across the city to observe the two-minute silence to remember the city's war dead
Duchy Park has had a mini clean-up at the say so of pupils from Summerville Primary School...
Residents say 'Help us make Salford a city to be proud of!'...
Care chiefs believe they need a £1m government cash boost to provide better support for children in foster care in the city...
A primary school in Barton Road, Eccles, has been given a seal of approval by Ofsted inspectors...
Young people in Salford are tuning into the 'P' factor to tap into the power of politics during Local Democracy Week...
Food and Drink Festival climaxed in a show stopping culinary performance from seven pupils at Harrop Fold School...
As a celebration of the city's proud and enthralling history of invention, inspiration and innovation is launched...
Young people of Clifton embark on an arts project to give their building a visual identity...
A plan to replace two Salford schools has got full government backing. Schools minister Jacqui Smith has confirmed that the city council has been allocated funding worth more than £50.23 million
Salford’s Super League rugby team has announced a business partnership that will see its players wearing Salford’s famous magenta with pride at all away matches next season...
A unique guide designed to empower disabled residents to get out and do what they want to do has been launched this week
The city now has its first-ever radio station. Ofcom has awarded Salford Community Radio (SCR) a five year licence
Organisers for next year's 40th anniversary celebration for Salford's twinning link with the German city of Lünen are seeking people's memories and pictures of past twinning exchanges
Regeneration minister Phil Woolas is to visit Eccles this week as part of a bid by the city council to encourage more private investment in the town
Salford steps up its commitment to encourage people to get walking around the city...
Local artist, Craig Need, is breathing creativity into business life in Salford following the commission of a piece of work that he hopes encapsulates the essence of Salford’s diversity and strong sense of community....
Salford City Council's Landlord Accreditation Scheme has notched up its 500th member in the most successful scheme of its kind in the north west.
With Green Flag awards for two of its parks, designated Local Nature Reserves and an innovative cemetery heritage trail, Salford's green space is getting national recognition. Now the council needs your help to improve even more sites.
A new stadium for Salford City Reds is firmly back on the agenda with the application for a £130 million development in Barton due before Salford City Council's planning panel in October.
As Simon Cowell prepares for another season of seeking out pop sensations with the all important X factor, Salford gets down to the more important business of nominating social care and community stars who have gone the extra mile.
Salford childminder Marian Fox has been graded as 'outstanding' in her latest inspection by education watchdog Ofsted. She is the first childminder in Salford to receive this rare accolade and one of only a few in the country to do so.
Salford City Council is transforming access for disabled people to public buildings in the city.
A new Government scheme, which will improve life for private tenants, has now been launched in Salford.
The iconic backdrop of Salford Quays was once again in the spotlight as the city hosted the spectacular 2005 Countryside Properties Salford Triathlon ITU World Cup.
Salford City Council is transforming access for disabled people to public buildings in the city.
A new Government scheme, which will improve life for private tenants, has now been launched in Salford.
From no go to all go. Salford's parks' revival has been officially recognised with Blackleach Country Park in Walkden and Victoria Park in Swinton scooping the city's first two 'Green Flag Awards'.
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