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SALFORD NOW LIVE 25 OCTOBER – news, sport, weather and updates from around the city

James Delaney is curating our live feed today and will be updating you throughout the day on news relating to the forthcoming budget and how it might affect Salford, plus the government’s handling of the Covid crisis as the NHS faces a difficult winter.

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“Although we manage it, it belongs to the local community” – The Swinton community garden centre that has big growing plans for the future

A community garden centre in Swinton is aiming to become a community resource to support people’s health and well-being. Ian […]

Mr Joseph Allen with his campaigners in Bexley Square

“It’s all about what we can do in the middle ground”- Lib Dem candidate for Blackfriars and Trinity by-election sets out plans to ‘Clean Up Blackfriars’

With the Blackfriars and Trinity by-election on November 4 approaching, Liberal Democrat candidate Joseph Ross Allen plans to bring clean, […]

Lordy park at end of revamp, permission to use photo from Craig Havern

“Cadishead, very much, is not a forgotten-about community” – Lordy Park gains a remarkable £100,000 transformation

Lordy Park in Cadishead has reopened after a five-week reconstruction of the playground has taken place. The redevelopment of Lordy […]

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“It feels like these black figures are invisible” – Salford’s lack of BAME blue plaques

Image credit: Nick Harrison via Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ A Salford Now investigation has found that none of Salford’s […]

Greater Manchester Voices Project

“Our accent is a kind of fingerprint, it tells a story about where we’re from” – The Greater Manchester Voices Project want more Salfordians to take part in their survey of the region’s accents

More talkative Salfordians are wanted to help researchers map the various accents and dialects across Greater Manchester. The project, which […]