Tag: Eccles

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Record-breaking Barton AC return to sport after seven months – this time online

One Salford sports club has finally returned to competitive sport with the help of video recordings for the British Online […]

Credit; Bethan Edwards

“I think it’s going to be one of the best projects we’ve ever worked on”: The Music Shed prepares for an online Christmas extravaganza

An Eccles music school is planning a Christmas extravaganza after its initial live stream gigs exceeded their expectations. The Music […]

"I was frightened of heights!" - daredevil grandma makes 15,000ft charity skydive for Veteran Care Village

“I was frightened of heights!” – daredevil grandma makes 15,000ft charity skydive for Veteran Care Village

Daredevil grandma, Brenda Cogswell, from Eccles, has leapt from a plane at 15,000ft to raise money Broughton House Veteran Care Village in Salford.

Save The Unicorn: Residents campaign to buy popular Salford pub threatened with demolition

Save The Unicorn: Residents campaign to buy popular Salford pub threatened with demolition

Residents of Salford have set up a campaign to save ‘The Unicorn’ pub . The locals hope to reopen the much loved drinkery as a community owned pub.

Image of Salford Western Gateway- soon to be Alan Henning Way

Alan Henning Way – road renamed in honour of former International aid worker

Bob Linsdell / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) A road in Salford is to be renamed Alan Henning Way in honour of […]

Left Image credit: David Shankbone / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)

Salford-born Sir Harold Evans, legendary Sunday Times editor, dies aged 92

Image credit: David Shankbone / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) Former newspaper editor Sir Harold Evans, who was born in Eccles, has […]