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Forty seven rabbis have objected to a proposal for a parish council to be set up in a predominantly Jewish area of Greater Manchester. They have sent a letter to Salford City Mayor, Paul Dennett, and councillors.

Councillors will decide on the proposal for a parish council in the Broughton Park area at the next full council meeting on Wednesday November 19th after a three-month consultation period.

But in a strongly worded letter the rabbis - 20 from Manchester and 27 from London - warn that such a body could cause friction and result in an increase in hate crimes against the Jewish community.

Two letters have been sent by the rabbis, in September and second this week. They come in the wake of the October 2 attack on Heaton Park synagogue in Crumpsall in which Adrian

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