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The TransPennine Express service in Irlam will continue running two trains per hour with plans to upgrade a platform set to go ahead this winter. Back in August, fury was caused after it was announced that TransPennine Express (TPE) will no longer be picking up the second train per hour during off peak times at Irlam Train Station from December 2022.

Salford City Mayor Paul Dennett has called for a temporary export ban to prevent a world-famous painting by LS Lowry going abroad. ‘Going to the Match’ is due to go on sale in an auction at Christie’s London on Wednesday October 19.

Salford city council has switched a £39 million contract to build 177 new homes in Little Hulton to an alternative construction firm after the company that tendered successfully for the job went into liquidation. Bolton-based Seddon Construction will now build the homes at Longshaw Drive on the site of the former Harrop Fold School, 92 of which will be affordable and a further 85 for the private rented sector.

Three Greater Manchester MPs and Salford mayor Paul Dennett have urged social housing bosses to take urgent action over the "life-threatening squalor" some tenants are living in. This follows the revelation that an entire row of terraced houses owned by housing association Salix Homes is teeming with rats and mice.

A 300-year-old riverside footpath in Salford could remain open, with a campaign to save it now set to force a public inquiry. Salford City Council initially agreed that developers could close the pedestrian route by the River Irwell, diverting walkers through a back and a hotel lobby.

Local councillors have hit out at a train company’s plan to stop running at Irlam Station, saying the move will ‘shaft’ residents. Earlier this month, it was announced that TransPennine Express will no longer be picking up the second train per hour during off peak times at the station from December 2022.

Campaigners battling to prevent houses from being built on the site of a now-derelict golf club in Salford have vowed "we will never give up". The 100-acre land which was once Swinton Park Golf Club has been bought by developer Wain Estates for £3 million.

A huge free Christian festival is heading to Wythenshawe Park next month. The biggest free event of the summer in the north west, Festival Manchester will happen from July 1 to July 3, with a wide range of activities and even a ‘huge beach’ being made in the park.

Plans to close two major nursing homes in Salford have been dropped after a fierce campaign to keep the vital services.

Dozens of people gathered in the centre of Manchester to mark the five year anniversary of the Grenfell tower fire which killed 72 people.

Controversial plans to open a Hooters restaurant and bar - where scantily-clad young women will serve customers - at Salford Quays have been given the go-ahead. The decision flies in the face of fierce local opposition, including from both the Salford City Mayor Paul Dennett and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.

A public meeting to show solidarity and address concerns over the proposed decommissioning of two extra care schemes in Salford. Monica Court in Monton and Astley Court in Irlam residents were told by landlords ForHousing that there are plans to rehome them.

Campaigners who are fighting to stop a Hooters coming to Salford Quays will get a chance to have their say at a licensing hearing next week. Womanchester, a women’s rights group, alongside other individuals and groups, have previously referred to the US restaurant chain as “sexist, misogynistic and degrading”.

Plans for a Hooters restaurant in Salford have been branded 'regressive' by the city's Mayor. Paul Dennett and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham have both opposed the application from the American restaurant chain.

Low pay, high pressure and job dissatisfaction are turning midwives away from the profession and the NHS, the Royal College of Midwives has said. This comes after a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Local Democracy Reporting Service that showed Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, who run maternity services from Royal Bolton Hospital and Ingleside Birth Centre (currently closed) have lost 34 midwives in the last six months.

More than 150 new homes in Salford are starting to take shape at the ambitious Neighbourhood development being built on brownfield land that has stood empty for more than a decade. This social housing project undertaken by Salix Homes and partner developer Step Places are building 157 new homes on two parcels of vacant land off Kara Street and Liverpool Street in Seedley South, Salford.

Council services for vulnerable adults have been agreed for a further year and three months in Salford following approval from the mayor and his cabinet. The adult social care provisions in Salford include direct payments for specialist needs equipment in the home, Community Occupational Therapy Service, Wheelchair Clinics, Equipment Services, and adaptations to the property from the Accessible Accommodation Services.

Salford's mayor has called on the government to sanction Gazprom and to make it easier for councils to exclude the Russian gas firm from the usual contract tendering process.

Salford's mayor has defended a full council tax increase - which will be needed to pay all care workers the Real Living Wage - saying 'it's the right thing to do'.

In one Salford suburb, children do their homework in McDonald’s because their families can’t afford Wi-Fi at home.

Andy Burnham has unveiled a shake-up of roles and responsibilities which the leaders of each council in Greater Manchester have within his mayoral team.

Weekend parking charges have been scrapped for shoppers across Salford in the run up to Christmas.

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Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the citySalford councillors have called on the government not to 'shift the burden' of local government and social care costs onto the city's council tax payers.Mayor Paul Dennett also called out the government's assumption that local authorities will raise council tax by 5 pc to balance their budgets, which he said would be 'hammering Salford ratepayers for funds'.Labour councillors urged the government to