Rant: Salford artists launch art and craft events throughout November
mancon news feed (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Salford artists launch art and craft events throughout November
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Threatened school to remain open
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A Salford school threatened with closure has been saved after the school adjudicator dismisses the plan.
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Market forces
trading as wdr (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
If the supermarket planned for Salford Quays is too pricey for BBC salaries without London weighting, Property Week reports the arrival of a new Morrison's, on the other side of the Trafford Road in Ordsall.
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CCTV of PE kids seized by Salford police
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Video footage of primary pupils changing for PE lessons has been seized by police after a protest by furious parents.
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Die Zeit publishes list of political science departments of "excellence"
The Brooks Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Details are here . They list only European universities. Departments are noted for excellence across the following categories: international doctorates, international master's students, international staff, highly cited books, citations, publications, and other factors. The political science departments noted are: U Aarhus U Aberystwyth U Amsterdam UPF Barcelona U Belfast FU Berlin HU Berlin U Bern...
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Out Of Eden in London And Manchester
Alwayswriteagain (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
September 1973 and I travel from Sheffield to Manchester by train to start a new job. It’s a journey I know well but my notoriously poor sense of space and direction kicks in and I get off the bus from Piccadilly Station at the wrong end of Prestwich. A fatherly chap sees small, ungainly me struggling with an outsize travel bag, stops his car and offers me a lift. I accept and 10 minutes later...
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Manchester's Literary Renaissance
The Art of Fiction (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I couldn't help smiling at this posting in the Guardian about Manchester's Literary Renaissance, if only because of its somewhat haphazard nature. The Manchester literary scene ebbs and flows over the years, with magazines, readings, writers falling in and out of the city as life and literature changes for all of them. At this point in time, there's certainly a critical mass of writers based in Manchester,...
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I’m Backing The Christie Challenge
Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Like many local people, I’ve had close family receive treatment at The Christie and I know the huge positive benefits of having world-class cancer care on our doorstep. I’m delighted that Christie is coming to Salford and I’m really pleased that the Advertiser have taken up the gauntlet to help raise money for the cause. [...]
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Salford City Reds sign Stephen Tyrer on season-long loan from St Helens
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
SALFORD CITY REDS have signed goalkicking centre Stephen Tyrer on a season-long loan from St Helens.
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Other Rugby League: SAints’ Tyrer joins Salford
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
SALFORD City Reds have signed centre Stephen Tyrer on a season-long loan from St Helens.
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Tyrer loaned to Reds
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
St Helens centre Stephen Tyrer has agreed to join Salford on a season-long loan deal.
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Salford sign centre Tyrer on loan
BBC Sport (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Salford City Reds sign centre Stephen Tyrer on a season-long loan from St Helens.
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Clinton Ford 1931 - 2009
Boot Sale Sounds (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Clinton Ford, whose real name was George Harrison strangely enough was born in 1931 in Salford near Manchester in the North West of England. "Clinton will now be best remembered for his novelty song, "Fanlight Fanny"- a recording he made while he was with Oriole, a minor label which had association with the Woolworth's budget record brand, 'Embassy'. In fact Clinton Ford was one of Oriole's...
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end of the road - Derker
Ciara Leeming (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
I paid a visit to Derker the other day...an area of Oldham that is undergoing a controversial regeneration process funded by central government. I last visited the community over two years ago, not long after a public inquiry that was triggered by objections to the council's plans to bulldoze almost 500 homes. Inevitably, the locals lost and the compulsory purchase order (CPO) was granted - clearing...
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Hacking with Erik
HydraRaptor (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Erik de Bruijn (RepRap evangelist) is in the UK at the moment visiting Salford and Nottingham universities to spread the word. Yesterday he came here to see HydraRaptor. We spent a very interesting afternoon and evening, swapping extruder ideas, comparing objects we had made, and doing a couple of very successful experiments. The first was something I had been wanting to try for a long time, and that...