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Planning permission has been granted to build 485 new homes in Pendleton.

Salford residents will go to the polls on Thursday, May 2 to vote in the local elections.

Councillors have been accused of conducting a ‘Salford chainsaw massacre’ by a resident after they approved a series of developments in the city which will result in the felling of numerous trees. Resident Seamus Martin made the comment to the city’s planning committee when he pleaded with them to exclude the site of the former Windsor High School from a plan to build 485 homes as part of the regeneration of Pendleton.

A pensioner says she ‘feels like I have been left abandoned’ after a broken heating system means she is facing a freezing cold Christmas in Blackley.

Finn and Jake’s alternate universe continues.

A dad-of-seven whose family are the last ones living in a now-derelict street has hit out at council chiefs who want to bulldoze his home. Demonique Wilson and his wife Thabo are locked in a bitter dispute with Salford town hall bosses over the value of his house which is set to be demolished to make way for a £250m regeneration project.

More of Salford’s social housing is being moved into public ownership with 56 properties transferred to the city council’s property company. The authority’s property and regeneration committee approved the move for the properties at the former St Luke’s school site in the Weaste and Seedley ward on a 1,000-year lease for social and affordable rent.

Nearly 50 homes have been transferred to the Salford council-owned company Derive Group following a £5.7m loan from the town hall. The authority is in the process of building the homes on the former Irwell Valley High School site, off Blandford Road, in the Pendleton and Charlestown ward, including 25 apartments and 21 apartments.

Housing developments around Greater Manchester are nothing new, but this week has seen two huge developments in Salford come to light.

Sunday marked a new dawn in the history of bus services in Greater Manchester - another chapter in a story dating back almost 200 years to 1824.

A councillor has voiced ‘disappointment’ that a 27-storey block on the site of the former McDonald’s regional head office in Salford will be for students rather than ‘desperately needed’ social housing. Coun John Warmisham was speaking as the plan for the block of land at Cross Lane in his Pendleton and Charlestown ward was approved by the city’s planning and transportation regulatory panel.

A man was arrested on suspicion of gun crime after reports of a 'disturbance' on a street in the early hours of Sunday, police have revealed.

Riding pillion on a motorbike driven by a masked youth a priest follows a funeral cortege from a cemetery. Video footage captured Father Frankie Mulgrew, son of comedian Jimmy Cricket, shaking holy water from an aspergillum, as the machine follows a line of cars.

A councillor has called for calm after a day of disorder in Salford. The trouble, mainly in the Pendleton area, saw fireworks launched at a police station and a van - and a car set alight.

Charna Flam “American Gladiators” aired in the 1990’s, but the competition still remains a phenomenon decades later. Last month, ESPN’s “30 for 30” explored the show, and now, Netflix is getting into the game. Netflix’s five-part docuseries, “Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of ‘American Gladiators,” dives into the hit, chronicling the meteoric rise and sweeping impact the superhero-like athletes had on both fans across America and their “average Joe” competitors. Co-directors Jared Hess and Tony Vainuku were fans of “American Gladiators” as teens, so it was natural to revisit the TV show when Netflix presented the opportunity. In their series, the filmmakers explore the good, the bad and the ugly, bringing audiences insight through access to executives who greenlit the production in the ’80s, original crew members and gladiators, including Nitro (Dan Clark), Storm (Debbie Clark), Diamond (Erika Andersch Bunker), Laser (Jim Kalafat), Ice (Lori Fetrick), Zap (Raye Olson), Blaze (Shari E Pendleton Mitchell), Sky (Shirley Eson-Korito) and Tower (Steve Hennebery).

EXCLUSIVE: Logan Miller (Escape Room franchise) has signed on to star alongside Barbarian breakout Georgina Campbell in Psycho Killer, a new horror-thriller from New Regency, which is heading into production in early spring.

Police have released more CCTV footage of brazen motorbike thieves following a series of thefts in Salford. The footage shows the masked group riding a number of bikes with others on foot.

Police investigating money laundering hit the jackpot when they stopped a car in Salford. Stuffed into cardboard boxes in the vehicle was almost a quarter of a million pounds.

Tire collection events are being held around West Virginia this month and next. A total of 13 events are scheduled.They are being held by the state Department of Environmental Protection's Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan. October events are in Logan County on Friday and Oct.

Owners of a residential tower labelled "the biggest eyesore in Salford" have come under fire for "under-investment". The comment was made as a "high-quality" development in its shadow was given planning approval.

The Spinners Quarter development in Pendleton was officially unveiled recently with Salford ’s city mayor cutting the ribbon. The event marks a milestone for Lovell Together, the joint venture between Lovell Partnerships and Together Housing Group.

, Noah Reid is back on screen and stage as he appears opposite Josh Brolin in the Prime Video series and makes his Broadway debut in the Tracy Letts play . While speaking with ET, the actor reflects on his groundbreaking role as Dan Levy’s onscreen partner, Patrick, and why Letts’ play drew him to Broadway. Having officially opened on April 17 at Studio 54, Reid is now weeks into his Broadway debut and taking advantage of being on the New York stage.

A "loving" boyfriend who killed a young woman in a crash was today jailed - despite the victim's family 'disagreeing' with the prosecution. Mum-of-one Natalia Kulik died after Peter Clarke's car crashed through a roundabout barrier and landed on its side on an underpass in Salford.

Social housing tenants in Salford, who have suffered freezing conditions since flammable cladding came off their blocks, were sent a 'scandalous' letter in December advising them to 'wear a hat and gloves' to keep warm.

Police found a large kitchen knife and a hammer hidden inside bushes in a park in Salford.

Three affordable housing developments have been approved in Salford.

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this link, enter your email address, and select 'MySalford News'. That's all there is to it.But around 200 tenants are now taking legal action against the company and Salford council over fire hazards, extreme cold and electrical safety issues.They are claiming the properties in Pendleton are 'unfit for human habitation'.Rosemary Addy, has lived in Plane Court for nearly eight years.

The housing association sought legal action against Yonas Behre following an incident at Salix Homes’ headquarters Diamond House, off Eccles New Road. Behre, aged 33, was on the waiting list for social housing and had been offered a property by Salix Homes in Pendleton.

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Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the cityPlans for 127 new homes to replace a former Salford council estate knocked down as part of a major regeneration project have been given the go ahead.The family houses off Liverpool Street will feature the city's first 'cycle street' with pedestrians also prioritised and an allotment metres from the M602.Hundreds of homes have already been built and refurbished as part of the £650m project in Pendleton

direct to your inboxThe family of a mum whose remains were found after she went missing have spoken of their ongoing agony - as a date for an inquest into her death was set.Marie Scott, who was 58, went missing from her home in Hale, in Trafford, just before Christmas in 2017.A human leg was then found in the River Irwell near Jubilee Bridge in Pendleton, Salford, in December 2018, followed by the discovery of body parts in marshes beside the Manchester Ship Canal near Frodsham in Cheshire in