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Salford Star cover with Shaun Ryder

The Salford Star, reporting with ‘attitude & love’ for 15 years, is closing

By Judith Suckling | 29 April, 2021Features

‘I can think of only two local newspapers that consistently hold power to account: the West Highland Free Press and the Salford Star’ said journalist and author George Monbiot. The Salford Star is to close after the elections in May. Judith Suckling talks to Stephen Kingston, the journalism powerhouse behind the Star, on its rise and fall.

Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh hopes small independent media can ‘grow and be heard’ to counter failings in modern media landscape

By Eddie Toomer-McAlpine | 21 August, 2019Culture

To round up a  host of events to commemorate the bicentenary of Peterloo over the weekend, acclaimed film director Mike Leigh attended a screening of his film Peterloo, at HOME Manchester, and answered the audiences questions on it’s relevance for life in the UK today. Film director Mike Leigh invited us all to join him […]

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