Steve Dixon: Last News

A councillor has voiced ‘disappointment’ that a 27-storey block on the site of the former McDonald’s regional head office in Salford will be for students rather than ‘desperately needed’ social housing. Coun John Warmisham was speaking as the plan for the block of land at Cross Lane in his Pendleton and Charlestown ward was approved by the city’s planning and transportation regulatory panel.

A scheme to turn 10 railway arches into a thriving hub of bars, restaurants and cafes has been hailed as 'absolutely fantastic' by a councillor who said the area was a 'dump' when she grew up there.

A moving tribute has been paid to an NHS boss ‘dedicated to improving the lives of people in Salford’ by the city’s ceremonial mayor. Coun Gina Reynolds was speaking in the wake of the passing of Steve Dixon, who until April this year was the chief delivery officer for the new Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board.

The body which runs health services in Salford has been ranked number one in a national survey of NHS organisations with 95 per cent of staff recommending it as a place to work.

A heartless dad has been jailed after faking a DNA test in a bid to swerve child support payments for his two sons.A court heard that Steve Dixon, 39, cooked up an ‘audacious’ scheme to shirk his responsibilities as a father.Dixon, from Warrington, Cheshire talked his mate into taking the test for him by swabbing his mouth before sending it off to authorities.He then went so far as to accuse his ex-partners’ pursuit of monetary contributions for the two boys as ‘tantamount to harassment’.Dixon also fabricated a sob story that he had previously been ‘traumatised’ to find out that he was not the two boys’ father, and that this DNA test meant he had to ‘relive it all again’.His plan was rumbled following an investigation after the women