It might be a straight race between Labour and the Conservatives in Worsley and Eccles South this week, but it’s green issues which are at the heart of the two campaigns.

Salford Conservative Councillor Iain Lindley has hit back at Labour Councillor Kevin Peel’s statement that ‘the Government made it harder for young people and ethnic minorities to vote’, calling the comment ‘absurd’ and ‘patronising’.

The ‘irrecoverable debts’ relating to council tax, business rates, benefit overpayments and tenant arrears were shelved in a low-key council meeting yesterday afternoon