A £2.5bn transformation of one part of Salford has moved a step closer. Groundbreaking plans, the first part of a wider project that will change the face of Salford Crescent forever, have been unveiled.
08.07.2023 - 17:07 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Victoria Seed walked into the girls’ changing rooms, grabbed her gym bag and started getting dressed into her school uniform.
Looking up, a group of girls had huddled around her, one clutching a small bag in their hand.
“Do you want to try some of this?” she asked Victoria, opening her palm to reveal a tab of LSD.
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Victoria had never tried drugs before. A top pupil, the 15-year-old was a quiet child and struggled with confidence.
But surrounded by her classmates, Victoria felt an overwhelming pressure to buy the illegal substance.
She handed her dinner money over – a £1 coin – and the decision was made.
Victoria didn’t know it at the time, but that one choice back in 1993 would cause a ripple effect throughout her future – changing the course of her life in an instant.
“It was literally peer pressure,” mum-of-two Victoria, who lives in Whitefield, told the Manchester Evening News.
“Peer pressure doesn’t mean you’re getting it forced down your neck or forced to buy it. It just means as a young person you’re getting that external pressure where you don’t want to say no.
“I wasn’t assertive so I went along with it.”
A few days later, Victoria, now aged 45, got pulled into her deputy head teacher’s office.
Word had got out that she had bought the drugs, and despite flushing them down the toilet, she now found herself expelled along with the girls who sold them to her.
Victoria was devastated. One mistake had turned her quiet life into one of chaos – propelling her into a world filled with stigma and shame.
“All hell broke loose,” she added. “The expulsion was really hard to manage. When you’re 15, you think you’re a grown up but you’re not. It
A £2.5bn transformation of one part of Salford has moved a step closer. Groundbreaking plans, the first part of a wider project that will change the face of Salford Crescent forever, have been unveiled.
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