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The parents of Janine Waterworth, who was murdered in 1998, have called for stricter sentences after her killer, Paul O’Hara, took the life of another woman in March. Ian and...
Date Published 13/08/2014
The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and three other officers are facing a criminal investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). Sir...
Eight-year-old Troy Swanick, from Syke, believed to be one of the youngest black belts in Shukokai Karate in the UK, made an appearance on BBC One’s, The One Show on Monday (12...
A man who killed his mother just days after moving back in with her has been given a hospital order. Matthew Brierley (born 12/11/1968) of Calf Hey, Littleborough, pleaded...
Members of the Council’s casualty reduction team attended a 999 emergency day at the Trafford Centre recently, manning an interactive information stand offering advice on...
The number of pupils being excluded from schools in the Borough of Rochdale has risen, against the national trend. 1,770 pupils in local schools were given temporary exclusions...
Taylor Wimpey have submitted an application to vary condition nine of their original planning application in respect of noise levels near gardens or outside spaces for their...
Date Published 12/08/2014
Matthew Brierley has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his mother Glennis Brierley at a hearing at Manchester Crown Court today (Tuesday 12 August). Brierley, 45, was...
Nicholas Allen, from Rochdale, has been jailed for four years after he pleaded guilty to arranging the commission of a child sex offence. Allen, 54, used the internet to...
A 35-year-old man was seriously assaulted as he walked home in Rochdale. At around 10.20pm on Thursday 31 July 2014, he was walking on Hare Hill Road near to the junction with...
A group of young people from Heywood got a taste of life as a soldier training for World War One on a special day out at Hollingworth Lake. To mark the 100th anniversary of the...
Hopwood Hall College Riverside Salon will re-open on Wednesday 20 August. The incident last weekend on St Mary’s Gate, in which a car lost control and collided with the college...
A clinic set up by The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust to support mums who are struggling to breastfeed their tongue-tie babies has been shortlisted for a health care industry...
Moorclose mum Pam Mamwell and seven-year-old son Luke Thetford are helping make their neighbourhood a better place to live. Pam was one of a number of Moorclose, Junction and...
The annual Freehold Festival Mela celebrated its 40th year on Saturday 2 August. King Street North was lined with local residents who came together for the festival, despite...
Would a stranger save your life? It may depend on who you are, where you live and whether you’ve got a family, according to a survey for Anthony Nolan, a charity which relies on...
Wayne Whitworth, born 6/2/73 of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to three counts of rape of a girl under 16-years-old and three offences of indecent assault on...
A 13-year-old boy from Rochdale has pleaded guilty to criminal damage after he admitted to toppling over and cracking gravestones at a Jewish Cemetery in Blackley. A second...
Date Published 11/08/2014
West Yorkshire Metro was wrong not to have consulted the people of Littleborough and Rochdale over the future of the 528 bus service, Simon Danczuk MP has argued. Rochdale...
Police have issued an image of a man wanted for a domestic related assault. Kevin Francis Hardacre, born 22/12/77 from Rochdale, is wanted following the assault of a...
Lee Cropper, from Littleborough, was part of a team of Greater Manchester Firefighters that raised almost £10,000 completing a cycle ride and mountain climb for charity. The...
Rochdale Council Leader Richard Farnell says community volunteers who help out in their local library or do charitable work should get discounts on their council tax bills. He...
A group of gardeners has taken over the Q Gardens allotments on the Kirkholt estate and Councillor Richard Farnell visited the gardens to meet the volunteers at a special launch...
The ongoing crisis in Iraq means Parliament should be recalled, Simon Danczuk MP for Rochdale has argued. As the humanitarian crisis worsens in Iraq and minority Christians...
Wood Street in Heywood is set to be renamed in commemoration of Private Anthony Palmer, a Crimean war hero and Victoria Cross recipient, who is buried in Heywood Cemetery.
Littleborough Historical and Archaeological Society has put together a list of local soldiers who fell during the First World War. The list, as far as the group can tell, is a...
An inquest into the death of Tracy Shelvey, the lady who died after jumping from the roof of the Wheatsheaf Centre in February, will take place next year. The full...
DJ Liz Kershaw has been added to the line-up for this year’s Rochdale Literature and Ideas Festival. Littleborough born Liz will appear at the festival on Sunday 26 October...
Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman fought off a robber who attempted to steal her handbag. At around 5pm on Saturday 2 August a 51-year-old woman was walking...
Police have released CCTV after a car crashed into Hopwood Hall College, badly injuring the driver and causing extensive damage to the building. At about 7.15pm on Saturday 9...
