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🌳 Trees and shrubs around Trafford have been pruned, ready for nesting season. Trafford is keeping plants healthy and maintaining great habitats for wildlife.

🪹 The work, carried out at locations such as Hullard Park in Old Trafford and Stamford Park in Altrincham, has now paused, ahead of bird nesting season. It will resume in November.

🌲 Pruning work such as this should boost the user experience of parks, support public safety and accessibility, and promote long-term plant health.

🐦‍⬛ Fly over to the Trafford website for more: https://ow.ly/R8Tz50Z6BPS

Got some free time? Why not try volunteering.

Join a relaxed info session to meet others, explore flexible opportunities, and enjoy coffee and cake.

📅 10 June – Urmston Library
📅 14 July – Limelight, Old Trafford

No commitment - just come along and find out more.

Following the building collapse on Talbot Road yesterday, our contractors have worked hard to clear the road and pavement and demolish the structure.

Talbot Road has now reopened to traffic and the site has been secured.

🧦 Put your best sock forward, Carla! 🧦

Trafford Council Officer Carla Godwin, who works closely with families facing hardship across the borough, will be taking on the AJ Bell Great Manchester Run Half Marathon this Sunday to raise money for Trafford-based charity Little Green Sock Project.

Based in Trafford Park, the charity provides essential items for children aged 0–16 including clothing, toiletries, and more. The charity supports families experiencing a wide range of challenges including poverty, domestic abuse, and homelessness.

Best of luck, Carla!

🚧 Road closures – Talbot Road & Chester Road, Old Trafford

Following a partial building collapse yesterday evening, we are using emergency powers to enable the safe demolition of a building, formerly known as Tommy's House of Fires, at the junction of Talbot Road and Chester Road.

Demolition work will begin early tomorrow morning, Friday 29 May.

To enable this essential demolition work, Talbot Road will be fully closed in both directions at its junction with Chester Road. The westbound carriageway of Chester Road near the building will also be closed to ensure public safety during the demolition and associated works.

We urge members of the public to avoid the area where possible during this time. Bus services will be affected, and those travelling through the area are advised to plan their journeys in advance and follow signed diversion routes.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and are working to complete this urgent safety work as quickly as possible, with roads expected to reopen by the afternoon of Saturday 30 May.

🔗 For travel updates and advice visit: https://tfgm.com/travel-updates/travel-alerts

🏃‍♀️‍➡️ A friendly reminder that this Sunday sees the AJ Bell Great Manchester Run hit the region.

👟 The route takes runners through parts of Trafford, including past some of our great locations such as Old Trafford and the Imperial War Museum.

🚗 There will be road closures in effect, including Trafford Wharf Road. For full details, visit the GMR website: https://www.greatrun.org/events/great-manchester-run/

🏃🏽‍♀️‍➡️ And if you're taking part: good luck, well done, you'll smash it!

Trafford Council is supporting the 50th anniversary of National Smile Month, which runs until 11 June, by helping families take simple, preventative steps to protect their children’s teeth.

More than 4500 free toothbrush and toothpaste packs have already been distributed to families this year, with a further 7000 packs planned from 2026 to reach those most in need.

This is to help combat the spread of tooth decay: a quarter of five-year-olds in Trafford have had tooth decay.

Find out more, including how organisations can order the free packs online, visit the Trafford website: https://ow.ly/w06w50Z556S

🚨 Incident update

We are currently responding to a building collapse at the junction of Talbot Road and Chester Road in Old Trafford.

Council officers are on scene alongside emergency services, working together to ensure public safety.

❗Road closure: a short section of Chester Road westbound is closed near its junction with Talbot Road. The 53 bus service is being diverted.

Please avoid the area where possible while the emergency response continues.

| We are currently responding to a building collapse on Talbot Road, Stretford.

Officers are on scene with other emergency services working together to ensure the safety of the public.

We would ask people avoid the area where possible.

Thanks for your patience.

The annual meeting takes place at 6pm this evening. You can follow it all live on the Council's youtube channel at

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Trafford in the news!

Great article from the BBC about the exhibition at the Trafford Local Studies and Archive Centre in Sale, marking nearly 90 years of Kellogg's in Trafford Park.

The free exhibition runs until the end of August so could be a fun retro-filled trip for half term or the summer holidays.

Kellogg's marks 88 years at Stretford site ahead of closure The display has everything from vintage promotional materials to a plaque honouring a royal visit.