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Mehretab Zemicael has been found guilty of murdering 42-year-old Gary Brisco from Rochdale. Mr Brisco was found dead at a homeless shelter in London on Code Street, on 22 June...
Date Published 20/02/2014
On Thursday 13 February 2014 a male adult resident in Middleton was arrested and subsequently charged with taking a cycle without consent, possession of cannabis and assault by...
A campaign to help residents put the right waste in the correct bin is being rolledin Littleborough from March in a bid to improve the area’s recycling rates. Residents around...
UKIP held a public meeting in Heywood and the party's deputy leader, Paul Nuttall, was the guest speaker at the event, which addressed the subject of "Why vote UKIP?"
Organisers of the Springhill Hospice Spring Fair, which takes place at the Hospice on Mother’s Day, are appealing for items to be donated. As it is Mother’s Day, there will be...
Villagers in Zimbabwe now have a source of clean and fresh drinking water thanks to Medicx Pharmacy in Rochdale. The pharmacy practice, situated in Wellfield Surgery, has been...
Parents and carers are advised to get a free check to make sure their child’s car restraint is fitted correctly. During a recent visit to Sandbrook Children’s Centre and the...
Transport for Greater Manchester and charity Sustrans are aiming to boost the love of cycling in the city-region to Copenhagen levels through a new citizens’ survey inspired by...
Littleborough Canalside Development Group is seeking help from the people of Littleborough. The Group has now been meeting for several years to discuss and focus minds on all...
Graham Baker will be undertaking the second borough walk in aid of the Mayor’s Charity on Sunday 13 April. The walk will cover 22 miles.
The restricted availability of defibrillators, and poor understanding of how to use them, is increasing the number of deaths from heart attacks occurring outside hospitals,...
The synthetic chemicals used in the packaging, storage, and processing of foodstuffs might be harmful to human health over the long term, warn environmental scientists in a...
A new campaign – Better Together - lis being launched in the North West, offering communities up to £25,000 worth of funding toward a local project that will improve, not only the...
The Urgent Care Centre at Rochdale Infirmary was closed yesterday (Wednesday 19 February) for eight hours due to a staff shortage. The unit was closed from midnight until 8am...
Proposals to double the size of a wind farm on the Lancashire moorland have been unveiled. Peel Energy and United Utilities want to add more turbines to the existing 26 at the...
Date Published 19/02/2014
Seven new names have been added to Heywood’s First World War Memorial: W Parkinson, J McIntyre, B C Butterworth, E Collinge, H Armstrong, J Thornley and H Olden. All seven men,...
Teenagers Teegan Gritt and Chloe Dring will be having their heads shaved as a way of raising money for the charity 'When You Wish Upon A Star'. The cousins will be taking part...
The Heywood Charities Fete held its annual general meeting on Monday 10 February and the highlight of the evening was to hand out cheques to various local organisations and...
Britain needs a return to academic selection to restore excellence, says MEP Paul Nuttall. Shocking figures from the OECD, which show that poor students in China are...
Rochdale based comedian Jimmy Cricket will be be part of ‘Stars Come Out for Francis House,’ a fund raising event to raise money for Francis House. The event, which will take...
Record-breaking numbers of women are now in work – the employment rate of 67.2% is the highest since records began and over 14 million women are in employment, according to...
Mecca Rochdale employees struck a huge heart-shaped piñata to mark the launch of their charity partnership with Carers Trust. All 97 Mecca clubs, part of the Rank Group Plc,...
Work will start on Rochdale Road this month as part of a major bus priority package to improve bus journey times and service reliability on key routes into Manchester city centre.
Date Published 18/02/2014
In honour of the 450th anniversary of the birth of the Bard, Shakespeare Week, from 17 to 23 March, is a new annual celebration to bring the great playwright, his works and legacy...
Chief Executive Gareth Swarbrick led a team of Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) volunteers into action as they carried out a neighbourhood clean-up at Heady Hill in Heywood....
James O’Connor (23/06/1981) of Great Arbor Way, Middleton, has been charged with section 18 assault and was due to appear at Bury Magistrates Court today, Tuesday 18 February...
With her new album ‘Seven’ a new entry at number 13 in the UK album charts, Britain’s iconic soul singer Lisa Stansfield announces a ten date UK tour. Starting in Birmingham...
A 17-year-old has been charged with section 18 assault following an assault on two men in Heywood, one of whom was left in a critical condition. The 17-year-old, who cannot be...
The Santa's Grotto that Rochdale Lions has organised in the Exchange Shopping Centre is to leave after eight years. The Grotto helped the club to fund raise for people...
A teenage boy was assaulted on Whitworth Road in the early hours of Saturday 8 February as he was making his way home from a party. The 16-year-old was walking home along...
