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  • 10 ways to protect your children online

    The internet keeps a record of everything shared online, from comments and photos, to what we buy. This is called our online reputation. And while it can be fun to share online, it can also be hugely damaging for years to come if the wrong thing

  • Regional: Police find body in the water at Salford Quays

    POLICE have launched an investigation after a body was discovered in the water at a major canal-side development. Officers set up crime scene tape around the Media City Metrolink stop in Salford Quays after a dead body of a man was found at around

  • Family pay tribute to man who died in Stretford assault

    THE family of a man who died following an assault in Stretford have paid tribute to him. Officers were called to reports of a disturbance at the Melville Hotel, located on the junction of Melville Road and Barton Road at about 8.30pm on Friday,

  • LETTER: Classes should be led by inspirational teachers

    I was not surprised by the desire of the National Union of Teachers to want no SATS and a maximum class size as they make life easier for them. Classes should be led by inspirational teachers who know their subjects and learning should not be delegated

  • THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: Banners, Chains and Hashtags!

    Banners, Chains and Hashtags! We have witnessed some trail blazing social trends, movements and acts of solidarity recently. These can stir grassroots communities for a cause that binds people together, generating kindness and compassion. Anyone

  • Council should reconsider its priorities

    SINCE the Labour council has been elected, I have this week received a survey regarding housing for the next five years. I was apparently selected at random. It is 31-page booklet to be completed and relates to the support I might require over the

  • LETTER: Leave Cow Field alone

    THIS is all very disturbing. Just who exactly in the council has decided that the Cow Field Oldfield Brow 'site must be overhauled for "financial reasons" ' ? This word "overhauled" is very Orwellian and "Management speak" - what exactly does it

  • REGIONAL: Fire service tackles huge moorland blaze

    FIREFIGHTERS are continuing to tackle a large blaze on Marsden Moor which is thought to have been started by someone using a barbecue. The blaze is continuing to burn after firefighters from Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire were called out