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You’re hired! – college learners receive awards

Winners of the Hopwood Hall College, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) learner’s ‘You’re Hired!’ competition collected their prizes...

Date Online: 25/05/2013

Mayfield Mustangs new kits

Mayfield Mustangs have taken delivery of new kits for two of their teams. The under 8s and the under 13s...

Date Online: 25/05/2013

Dementia awareness film for NHS staff

Staff at The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust have produced a dementia awareness training film to support frontline staff caring...

Date Online: 25/05/2013

TV Licensing reminds boat owners in Rochdale to get licensed

TV Licensing and the Residential Boat Owners Association have come together to help raise awareness amongst boat residents on Rochdale...

Date Online: 25/05/2013

Press freedom fears

A report attacking press freedom, which has just been passed by the European Parliament, has been slammed by local MEP...

Date Online: 25/05/2013

Age UK needs your vote to help fight loneliness and isolation

Shockingly, over one million older people have not seen a friend or family member in a whole month. Age UK...

Date Online: 25/05/2013

VIDEO: Council chief apologises to child sex abuse victims

Rochdale Council Chief Executive Jim Taylor has apologised to the victims of child sexual abuse after an independent report says...

Date Online: 25/05/2013

Cannabis operation dismantled

A sophisticated cannabis cultivation operation in Rochdale has been dismantled. Police officers from the Rochdale North Team discovered the cannabis farm...

Date Online: 25/05/2013

Hamer Community Primary School

Our children in Year 3 and Year 4 visited ‘Cadbury World’ in Birmingham on Thursday 23 May as part of...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Healey Primary School

School has now broken up for one week for the half term May break. We reopen on Monday 3 June...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Garry Layfield jailed for a number of historic sex offences

Garry Layfield has been jailed for a number of historic sex offences. Layfield (born 10/9/57) of Great Gates Road, Kirkholt,...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Tackling Littleborough’s casualty hotspot

The centre of Littleborough is ranked twelfth out of the top 38 sites in Greater Manchester for...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

'Goodnight Lee, rest in peace our fallen soldier'

A service for Drummer Lee Rigby, the soldier killed by two assailants in south-east London on Wednesday, has taken place...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Letter from Parliament - Simon Danczuk MP

I’d like to start this week by paying tribute to the outgoing mayor Jim Gartside. Jim was a very good...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Trading Standards seize illicit goods in Rochdale

A large quantity of illegal alcohol, cigarettes and tobacco was discovered following two raids in Rochdale last week. Rochdale Borough...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Resurfacing of Maclure Road

On Sunday 26 May 2013, as part of the works to construct the Rochdale town centre Metrolink extension, contractors will...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Drugs gang sentenced to 92 years in prison

A gang of drug dealers, six from Rochdale, have been convicted today (Friday 24 May) and sentenced to a total...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Bookstart programme is every child’s bear necessities

Bookstart Bear dropped into Number One Riverside Central Library to thank two special ladies, Maureen Watson and Irene Peachey, for...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Students analyse their own DNA in guest lecture

Applied Science students at Rochdale Sixth Form College welcomed renowned biologist John Schollar, from Reading University, to find out more...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Warning about pension scam

Police are warning people not to fall foul of a pension scam. The scam takes the form of cold calling...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Global leaders come to Heywood for opening of manufacturing plant

Business leaders from America and Sweden came to Heywood on Tuesday (21 May) to celebrate the opening of Camfil Air...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Have pet, will travel

Dogs and cats are set to gain greater opportunities to travel across EU borders. MEPs have given their support to...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

New partnership to improve end of life care for local people

Frontline health and social care staff have launched a new partnership to improve how they coordinate care to people who...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

EEF NW comment on second estimate of Q1 GDP figures

Commenting on yesterday’s second estimate of the Q1 GDP figures, David Ost, North West Region Director at EEF, the manufacturers’...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Leading high street entrepreneur slams business rate holiday for two years as ineffectual

New proposals out today from the right wing think tank, The Policy Exchange, argue that a two-year freeze on business...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

UKIP rise welcomed

UKIP Deputy Leader, Paul Nuttall, has welcomed a new poll of voting intentions showing that the party is now only...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Danger of illegal tooth whitening

People are leaving themselves open to illegal and potentially harmful tooth-whitening....

Date Online: 24/05/2013

‘All they needed to do was listen to the victims,’ says MP

Child abuse victims’ voices were prevented from being heard because of excessive bureaucracy and labyrinthine systems. That is the verdict of...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Senior officers of Rochdale Council turned a blind eye to child sex abuse

An independent report into child sexual exploitation in Rochdale has concluded that senior officers of Rochdale Council turned a blind...

Date Online: 24/05/2013

Eco-School Council receive prize

The Eco-School Council from St John with St Michael CE Primary School in Shawforth received a "Highly Commended Runners Up"...

Date Online: 23/05/2013