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Littleborough singer Danny Dearden will find out this weekend if he has made it through to the judge’s houses stage of the X Factor. Danny, 23, auditioned for the X Factor in...
Date Published 26/09/2014
Scott Gale (07/11/86) from Rochdale has been found guilty at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court today (Friday 26 September) of five counts of rape and has been sentenced to 10...
Police are satisfied that a body found in Whitworth last weekend is that of missing Rossendale man Heath Nield. The body was found on land behind Healey Conservative Club,...
A 2007 Mail Online article regarding the sentencing of killer Ronald Castree has been removed from Google search results under the controversial ‘right to be forgotten’...
The body of a man has been found hanged outside a flat in Heywood. Shocked passers-by found the man at a flat on Pitt Street – a small side road off of Bridge Street this...
Young entrepreneurs are stepping up their bid to get a fair deal for farmers in the developing world - and boost their own job prospects. Not Just a Little Business is a...
Date Published 25/09/2014
Friday 26 September MacMillan Coffee Morning – 8.30am to 9.30am Nursery Expansion? The pattern in recent years at Alkrington has been one where about half of the c. 60...
With evenings getting darker - all road users need to take extra care and look out for others. Bike Friday would like people to continue enjoying the freedom of cycling in Greater...
A film celebrating Middleton’s role in the Age of Enlightenment era is to have its premiere at Long Street Methodist Church, Middleton. Enlightenment Middleton is the creation...
A still image from CCTV footage of two men police wish to speak to in connection with a robbery at a petrol station in Milnrow has been released. At around 11.45pm on Wednesday...
Open Evening takes place on Monday 29 September from 6.45pm until 9.00pm and all are welcome. The headteacher’s welcome and address takes place at 7.00pm and is repeated again at...
Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk is to take part in the ice bucket challenge to raise money for the Carers Trust. Hoping to raise as much money as possible for the charity, which...
Police are appealing for help to find a man wanted for failing to appear at court. Sam Greenwood (born 09/07/93), from Rochdale, is wanted for failing to appear at court on 26...
We’ve seen some fantastic events take place across our Borough this year with the Tour de France and Feel Good Festival notable highlights. These have been great adverts for the...
Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk has warned that falling police officers will have an impact on crime after it’s emerged that Greater Manchester Police is losing five officers every...
The RSPCA shop in Castleton celebrated its first birthday on Tuesday (23 September) and hit £300 for the day’s takings. The day’s celebrations included a sale in which all...
MBM Academy of Dance and Fitness in Rochdale played host to break dance competition, Break Mission, on Saturday 20 September. Break Mission, a collaboration by break dancers...
Springhill Hospice’s furniture emporium on Oldham Road is on the move to Wood Street, Middleton – the site of their current shop in Middleton. The shop is constantly full to...
Health bosses have issued an alert over a ‘bogus midwife’ offering advice to pregnant women and mums. The warning, which was sent to health bosses and GP surgeries, claims...
A statue to commemorate Sam Bamford, one of Middleton’s most famous sons, has been vandalised. The memorial, which is located in Middleton old cemetery on St Leonard’s Street,...
Joseph Cannon of Heywood Old Road, Heywood, was found guilty of having carried out unlawful farriery at Bolton Magistrates’ Court on 15 September 2014 and fined £250 plus...
Trinity Mirror plc, Britain's biggest newspaper group, publishing 240 regional papers, including the Rochdale Observer and the Manchester Evening News, as well as the national...
Date Published 24/09/2014
The first meeting of Littleborough U3A enrolled 79 members on Monday (22 September). As well as enrolling over 70 members, the group also launched 13 interest groups where...
The Norden Arms and Deli has been granted planning permission for a single story extension to create a building to adjoin the deli and the pub. After what was described as an...
Circle members reached for the stars this week when they enjoyed a hot air balloon ride across the Lake District. The event had taken a lot of planning and had fallen foul of...
The candidates for the Heywood and Middleton by-election have expressed their views regarding banning Scottish MPs from voting on English Laws. As more powers are handed to...
Police have said that they are confident that there was no third party involvement in the death of a man whose body was found in Whitworth at the weekend.
Arran Mark Crossan, born 15/12/90, of Manchester New Road, Middleton, and Bradley Smith, born 7/8/94, of Salisbury Road, Eccles, have been charged with three offences of criminal...
The Y2 class from Littleborough Primary School took a trip to the Rochdale Fire Museum last Friday (19 September). As part of their curriculum work about famous people, the...
A group of Year 4 & 5 pupils from Beech House visited Holy Family, to play a friendly football match. The group, who had never played together before, were rotated around...
