| Salford is hoping its 30-minute pyrotechnics display will attract more than the 10,000 people who turned up last year. |
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| Lower Broughton is one of several areas in central Salford which are to be targeted for regeneration in the coming years. |
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| In one incident in Salford, a fire started in a wheelie bin near a cable box damaged underground cables. |
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| Great Britain finalised their preparations at Salford and will have today off in readiness for tomorrow's sell-out clash. |
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| For the third year running a mistle thrush has chosen an amber traffic light in Salford to rear her young. |
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| This is a kick in the teeth for the people of Salford and an outrageous waste of taxpayers' money. |
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| It will be one of the first stadia in the UK to include a safe standing area as a direct response to the wishes of Salford fans. |
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| For a nostalgic two hours, the rag and bone man was working the streets of Salford again. |
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| But a collection of doodles, sketches and self-portraits by more than 40 celebrities are proving to be a big draw in Salford. |
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| With time running out and Salford supporters screaming at the ref to blow for full time, Duffy made another break. |
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| Normally, you'd find Mary mingling with fellow parishioners at All Souls Church in Salford. |
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| This is a countrified area, the jewel of Salford, and it is grotesque that it should be changed in this way just to make money. |
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| Salford residents can drop into their local community centre or library for information. |
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| When the island of Phuket was swamped by giant waves on Boxing Day, his sons Michael 24, and Matthew, 19, from Salford, feared he was dead. |
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| Four hospitals provide emergency care in the cities of Manchester and Salford. |
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| Three Salford GPs will carry out the surgery in sessions held two or three times a week. |
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| Manchester and Salford have two of the worst records in the country for sending young people on from secondary school to college. |
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| Paul was impressive last week against Salford after switching from scrum half to hooker early on after Aaron Smith suffered a head injury. |
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| Fireworks lit up the sky and chased across the water during a breathtaking pyrotechnic display at Salford Quays. |
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| A funeral urn full of ashes left in a Salford cab may have been part of an elaborate hoax by Irish pranksters. |
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| It's not taken him long to establish himself as a firm favourite with Salford Reds supporters. |
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| Salford City Council now wants residents to go green and help the environment. |
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| All the Australian lads are brilliant swimmers because they all live by the sea but, coming from Salford, I'm not really an expert! |
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| The Salford sailor was issued with a identity card that allowed him to freely enter and leave ports and docks. |
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| He has single-handedly kept Salford afloat, doing his level best alongside the big guns. |
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| Three schoolboys on a day out at Salford Quays were stabbed by a gang of thugs near the Lowry arts centre. |
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| They lost their last game but they may have been resting a few players, knowing a Cup match with Salford was coming up. |
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| The Pendleton, Broughton, Greengate and Islington areas of Salford, where there is huge development, stand on the right bank of the river. |
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| Blackpool is showing great interest and the proposed development of Salford Reds RL club's new stadium at Barton includes a casino. |
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| The depot is listed as a building of Grade A historical interest by Salford council, but it has no protection against development. |
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| Next Ian headed off to see the Salford archivist to gather any information he could find. |
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| Life in Salford was rough, though the people were marvellous, the salt of the earth. |
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| Salford repeatedly lost possession on the first tackle and lacked a cutting edge when they managed to threaten the Blue Sox line. |
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| But an honour that seems to mean more to him than most was being made a freeman of Salford, his native city. |
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| A battle for power between a union man and an intellectual is looming at Salford town hall. |
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| Two boys, aged 12 and 13, have been charged with criminal damage and have been bailed to appear at Salford youth court tomorrow. |
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| Dozens of youngsters are dicing with death by leaping 80 ft from bridges into the waters of Salford Quays to cool down during the heatwave. |
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| Salford itself was Royal Demesne as was the sub-manor of Radcliffe and there were 21 sub-manors in thanage. |
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| He ran superbly from full-back and banged over seven goals as Leigh secured their place against Salford in the Arriva Trains Cup final. |
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| Salford Council wanted to close it after it had fallen into disrepair following vandalism and neglect. |
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| Salford has efficient binmen and clean, tidy town centres, roads and parks, says an independent watchdog. |
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| Salford seek a double over the Tigers and after wins against Warrington and Huddersfield, a third Super League victory in a row. |
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| Salford appeared on the up but the Northern Ford Premiership beckons if yesterday is anything to go by. |
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| The Salford tenor settled a long-running legal dispute with a former management company two months ago but they say he has yet to pay up. |
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| They attended Salford Magistrates Court and persuaded the bench to throw out the council's application. |
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| Salford hopes to become synonymous with the triathlon, and is bidding to host the 2010 World Championships. |
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| The former Salford player has been sidelined with a chest injury but has been passed fit to face the Cup holders. |
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| Five first-half tries put them firmly in control only for Salford to make the most of some slack defence. |
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| The narrow Craven Park pitch is notoriously boggy and Simms knows Salford could be in for a stamina-sapping slog. |
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| This week he collected his Doctorate of Philosophy from Salford University, where he is a lecturer in prosthetics and orthotics. |
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| Salford council has made a U-turn over plans to crack down on grave ornaments. |
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| Burglars hurled pedigree puppies out of the window during a raid on a house in Salford. |
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| He lives in Sedgley Park and has spent much of his career teaching in secondary schools in Salford and Manchester. |
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| The hamlet of Oldfield, lying between Ordsall and the town of Salford, was his, with twenty burgages and 30 acres of land. |
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| When Steve Prescott scored his second just after the break Salford were staring a hefty defeat in the face. |
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| Opened in September 1928 the camp still provides holidays for 1,000 Salford children every year. |
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| A Salford sailor is lucky to be alive after his boat capsized after drifting down the River Ribble and out to sea. |
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| Ume, a business student at Salford University, said he was a hard-working man who lived for his family. |
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| Tonight's ceremony will be attended by the chancellors of the universities, the Mayor of Salford and the Lord Mayor of Manchester. |
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| How no one in the Swinton Worsley bit of Salford can not have seen that craft, only me, is beyond belief. |
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| Bosses at a Salford secondary school with one of the highest truancy rates in the country say they take a hard line on absences other schools would ignore. |
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| As a youngster growing up in Salford he would eat only beans on toast. |
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| Both Salford and Manchester city councils say there are currently unaware of any pending claims resulting from road accidents involving cars on tram lines. |
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| Here are the cotton mills and factories, the coal mines and back-to-back cottages from which he drew inspiration as he walked the streets of Pendlebury and Salford. |
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| An internationally acclaimed Preston sculptor has been commissioned to create a striking walk-through work of art for a residential development at Salford Quays. |
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| Bargain hunters were able to shop and bop until they dropped as the sweet sound of a 100-voice choir singing a cappella filled The Lowry Designer Outlet at Salford Quays. |
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| Detectives in Salford are trying to trace the two men in a white van who tried to abduct the boy from the street in Little Hulton on Thursday evening. |
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| In bright sunshine, thousands of churchgoers from parishes across Manchester and Salford mingled with Bank Holiday crowds to enjoy a tradition dating back two centuries. |
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| In a bid to reduce waiting times, 200 patients are being sent to Hope Hospital in Salford where they will be able to use a mobile scanner in the car park. |
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| He was in determined mood and quickly established dominance of his area, however, despatching Salford shots with a confidence and assurance which belied his inexperience. |
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| A rare visitor to Salford has got twitchers all over Britain in a flap. |
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| Widnes' last-gasp 21-20 win over Salford earned them an extra home game in the middle eights, known as the Qualifiers. |
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| Their territory extended across the fertile lowland of what is now Salford and Stretford. |
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| It was this separation that resulted in Salford becoming the judicial seat of Salfordshire, which included the ancient parish of Manchester. |
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| In 2012, plans were approved to introduce a water taxi service between Manchester city centre and MediaCityUK at Salford Quays. |
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| Manchester was the regional base for BBC One North West Region programmes before it relocated to MediaCityUK in nearby Salford Quays. |
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| A huge meeting was held on Kersal Moor, Kersal near Salford, Lancashire on 24 September 1838 with speakers from all over the country. |
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| The effective relaxation of the population rule led to applications from Portsmouth and Salford. |
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| The county was divided into hundreds, Amounderness, Blackburn, Leyland, Lonsdale, Salford and West Derby. |
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| From 1906 to 1910 he was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Salford South. |
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| The teams announced were the 12 existing Super League teams along with National League 1 teams, Celtic Crusaders and Salford. |
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| Cup holders Salford had lost only one match prior to the final, against the touring Australians. |
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| They also won the Premiership against Salford, and the Floodlit Trophy against Dewsbury in a successful season. |
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| The Salford versus Leeds league match was abandoned after 38 minutes when Chris Sanderson of Leeds suffered a fatal injury. |
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| Important projects included those in London Docklands, Salford and Gateshead. |
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| In 2006 the Lowry Centre in Salford hosted a contemporary dance performance inspired by the works of Lowry. |
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| In 1975 he was awarded honorary Doctor of Letters degrees by the Universities of Salford and Liverpool. |
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| The largest collection is held by Salford City Council and displayed at The Lowry. |
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| This initiative was replicated by others in Colne Valley, Slaithwaite and Salford. |
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| After moving to Salford, Giggs appeared for the local team, Deans FC, who were coached by Manchester City scout Dennis Schofield. |
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| They have two children, both born in Salford and live in Worsley, Greater Manchester, close to where the player grew up. |
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| The group announced they would take part in a special friendly, with Salford facing a Class of '92 team. |
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| Also from Salford is comedian Jason Manford, whose Manc accent adds to his comedic style. |
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| Burns guided Engels through Manchester and Salford, showing him the worst districts for his research. |
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| The Act of Parliament of 1829 decreed separate Police Commissioners from Salford. |
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| His solution to these problems was to build a canal from Worsley to Salford, and an underground canal into the mines from Worsley Delph. |
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| From the 11th century, Worsley was a township in the Eccles parish of the hundred of Salford, and county of Lancashire. |
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| The ward elect three councillors to Salford City Council via its Worsley ward. |
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| It is the fifth least populous ward in Salford, and the third least densely populated. |
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| The ward has a higher proportion of married couples with and without children than Salford as a whole. |
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| Both lines were closed under the Beeching Axe in 1969, and have since been partially reclaimed by Salford City Council as recreational pathways. |
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| Diving ducks are regular visitors to Salford Quays, where species such as pochard and tufted ducks feed on winter nights. |
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| At about the time Whatton's party of surgeons arrived at Eccles, riders on horseback arrived at Parkside from Manchester and Salford. |
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| From Manchester city centre, the road crosses the River Irwell and enters the city of Salford. |
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| Along this stretch it also passes Salford Crescent railway station near the junction with Albion Way. |
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| The road is now the primary route Salford Road and meets the A579 at crossroads at Hulton Lane Ends becoming Manchester Road. |
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| The issue was frequently discussed by civic leaders in the area at that time, particularly those from Manchester and Salford. |
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| The BBC is now established in their new home at MediaCityUK, at Salford Quays. |
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| As of 2008 it is based at the BBC's Oxford Road studios, but is expected to move to MediaCityUK in Salford. |
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| The far north of the county, around Biddulph, is served by ITV Granada and BBC North West from Media City UK in Salford. |
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| It forms the boundary between Manchester and Salford and empties into the River Mersey near Irlam. |
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| It bisects Salford and Manchester, joining the rivers Irk and Medlock, and then turns west toward Irlam, as part of the Manchester Ship Canal. |
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| Problems with water quality in some of the former Manchester Docks basins became apparent with the redevelopment of Salford Quays. |
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| In 1946, there was serious flooding in Salford, caused by a bottleneck at a bend in the river at Strangeways, on the border with Manchester. |
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| Ten years ago, any fish getting as far down as Salford would have been killed almost immediately by the pollution in the water. |
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| The Salford Quays waterside development has made living by the Irwell, and the Manchester Ship Canal into which it flows, fashionable once again. |
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| In 2011, Rochdale had a population of 107,926 which makes it about the same size as Salford and Stockport. |
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| This makes the Leeds USD about as multicultural as Salford in Greater Manchester. |
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| But in Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Salford and much of the Black Country it was back-to-backs. |
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| In Greater Manchester, Manchester performs the worst, closely followed by Salford. |
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| I'd like to get to 40 points, and we have to be looking at Salford City and Radcliffe Borough, above us, as targetable teams. |
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| Police think the killing in Chadderton, Greater Manchester, may be linked to one in Salford on Saturday. |
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| A SOLDIER has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after a nail bomb was found at a terraced house in Salford. |
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| The veteran, who rides Salford Express in the Derby, was after the Oaks ride on Claxon after she had taken the Lupe Stakes. |
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| The best of that generation was Harmonicon, the US-bred champion sprinter of 1914 who won the Salford Borough Handicap and King George Stakes. |
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| Women drivers of the mobile section of the Salford Lancashire police force also served cups of tea each morning and afternoon to the men on point duty during the war. |
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| He studied chemistry part-time, eventually leaving to finish his Part II Graduateship of the Royal Institute of Chemistry at what is now the University of Salford. |
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| Former Super League Man of Steel Rangi Chase is the attacking heartbeat of Salford and a player who's respected and feared throughout the top-flight competition. |
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| After finishing his schooling at Anthony Joles grammar in Wirkswith, Derbyshire, David came to the North West to study for an engineering degree at Salford University. |
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| The ancient parish of Rochdale was a division of the hundred of Salford and one of the largest ecclesiastical parishes in England, comprising several townships. |
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| The proposals were welcomed by both Salford University and Agecroft Rowing Club, with the university stating that they wished to use that section for their boat race. |
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| Members of the frequency with which residents in Bacup, Ramsbottom, Manchester and Salford are subjected to flooding from the waters of the Irwell. |
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| He was awarded a number of medals including the gold and silver medals from the Humane Society for the Hundred of Salford, and the Royal Humane Society's bronze medal. |
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| Salford was one of the first authorities in the Irwell watershed to install intercepting sewers and sewage treatment works at Mode Wheel Sewage works. |
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| The canal turned Manchester and Salford into a major inland seaport and led to the development of Trafford Park which became the largest industrial estate in Europe. |
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| It offers views over the Greater Manchester Urban Area, including Manchester city centre, the Civic Centre in Oldham, Salford, Werneth Low, Wigan and Bolton. |
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| In 1984 Salford City Council used a derelict land grant to purchase the docks at Salford from the Ship Canal Company, rebranding the area as Salford Quays. |
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| The four container vessels commissioned that year, each of 11,898 gross tons, were the largest ever to make regular use of the terminal docks at Salford. |
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| The area is considered to be one of the more affluent parts of Salford. |
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| James Brindley was brought in for his technical expertise and suggested varying the route of the proposed canal away from Salford and across the Irwell into Manchester. |
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| The Duke and his estate manager obtained an Act of Parliament empowering them to begin construction on a planned route directly to Salford, avoiding the River Irwell. |
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| Salford and Merthyr Tydfil were given two MPs instead of one. |
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| This myth was first debunked by the Acoustics Research Centre at the University of Salford in 2003 as part of the British Association's Festival of Science. |
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| Giggs captained the Salford team to victory over their Blackburn counterparts, was man of the match, and the trophy was presented to him by Liverpool chief scout Ron Yeats. |
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| An expanded version of the exhibit was later installed at The Lowry in Salford from 17 March 2012 to 17 June, before moving to Aberdeen for twelve weeks. |
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| Lowry Centenary Festival, on behalf of the City of Salford and the BBC commissioned the Northern Ballet Theatre and Gillian Lynne to create a dance drama in his honour. |
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| Many of his drawings and paintings depict Pendlebury, Lancashire, where he lived and worked for more than 40 years, and also Salford and its surrounding areas. |
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| In the final, England had a rematch with France at Salford City Stadium. |
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| As part of a drive to reduce media centralisation in London, the BBC and ITV have moved much of their program production to MediaCityUK in Salford. |
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| In this period, race riots also took place in Cardiff, Newport and Barry, and there had been incidents in Glasgow, South Shields, London, Hull and Salford. |
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