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Rochdale Borough Council is to receive £238,301 as part of £13.1 million of government funding to help local authorities repair local roads damaged by severe weather. The...
Date Published 20/03/2014
New walking sessions are to be added to the weekly programme of activities as part of the activ8teme initiative of low cost, easy access sessions designed to help people in the...
A demolition contractor has narrowly escaped a custodial sentence for persistent breaches of planning control in sites across the borough. In March 2013, Peter George...
Every year over 1 million people die from a disease that many people consider to have already been eradicated. TB is airborne, infectious, drug-resistant and found in every...
The committee behind the Woman of Rochdale award decided at a meeting yesterday (Wednesday 19 March) that there will also be a Young Woman of Rochdale award this year. The...
A new approach to care is transforming the lives of patients with Parkinson’s disease and has promise for other long term conditions like COPD and rheumatoid arthritis, say Dutch...
The new town centre Metrolink line will open to passengers on Monday 31 March, subject to final testing. The final stage will start on Thursday 27 March and will see trams...
On Sunday, the Chancellor said that we need to tackle the long-term economic challenges facing the country, and I could not agree more. The problem is that he also said that we...
A fire broke out this morning (Thursday 20 March) in the living room of a property on Laneside Walk, Milnrow. The fire service was called just after 11.00am to reports of a...
Students from Rochdale Sixth Form College lit up Rochdale Police Station and the old Magistrates Court building with a digital light show on Wednesday (19 March). The show was...
The first stages of the town centre redevelopment demolition were completed this morning (Thursday 20 March) with the bridge link to the Wheatsheaf Centre being removed. The...
The ringleader of a gang of Asian men who groomed young white girls for sex appealed against his conviction. Shabir Ahmed was found guilty of 30 child rape charges and jailed...
Date Published 19/03/2014
Concerns have been raised about a number of cars regularly parking illegally along Milnrow Road, Rochdale. Photos sent to Rochdale Online show cars parked illegally on the...
Former Rochdale councillor, Jean Ashworth is warning local residents regarding a telephone "scam". Residents get phone calls from representatives of the Telephone Preference...
Canon Nick Feist, priest in charge at St Leonard's Church in Middleton, retired from his parish with effect from Sunday 2 March. Canon Feist was ordained as a priest in 1976...
Dr Thirumurugan Sundaresan, a partner at East Street Surgery in Rochdale, has been given a nine month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months after he admitted to falsifying the...
Lars Tharp, an arts and antiques consultant paid a visit to the Rochdale Antiques Society to give them a talk on William Hogarth. Lars was invited to speak to the group by the...
Councillor Farooq Ahmed appeared at Bury and Rochdale Magistrates court this morning (Wednesday 19 February). Councillor Ahmed pleaded not guilty to allegations of a section 4...
For households/families 311,000 people in the North West will be taken out of income tax altogether when the Personal Allowance rises to £10,000 this April, and another 31,000...
Rochdale Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies has been named MEP of the Year in the Environment category at the Brussels. Labour's Arlene McCarthy MEP was also presented with a...
Mr Deputy Speaker, I can report today that the economy is continuing to recover – and recovering faster than forecast. We set out our plan. And together with the...
Individuals who are genetically predisposed to obesity may be more susceptible to the adverse effects of eating fried foods, concludes a study published on bmj.com.
Families of the ‘Families and Schools Together’ (FAST) Club celebrated their Graduation on Wednesday with a final meeting and buffet. Certificates were presented to each...
Paul O’Hara, 41, of Honiton Close, Heywood, was last night (Tuesday, 18 March) charged with the murder of Cherylee Shennan. He is also charged with section 18 wounding and...
A new international science publication called Mosaic has just published an in depth investigation into asbestos. It features many of the issues published by Rochdale Online in...
On 21 March Year 9 students from Wardle Academy will hear testimony from Holocaust survivor, Rudi Oppenheimer, as part of a visit organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust...
A new initiative to get people in Milnrow and Newhey growing more vegetables, fruit and flowers was launched this week. With a £1,000 grant from the Pennines Township, Milnrow...
A dozen volunteers, supported by the council’s environmental management team, turned up for the first of the Milnrow and Newhey Community spring cleans for 2014. 20 sacks of...
The employment rate has hit a five-year high and a record 30.19 million people are now in jobs, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics this morning....
St Andrew's Church, Dearnley are thinking about organising a Peace Vigil on August 4, and a Heritage weekend in September, to include graveyard trails in Dearnley, Wardle and...
Date Published 18/03/2014
