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Matthew Moss High School collected the ‘Rochdale Borough Design Award’ at the fourth annual Rochdale Borough Design Awards. The school has been transformed with a new layout...
Date Published 25/02/2013
The elections for police and crime commissioners "failed both candidates and voters alike", a report by the Electoral Reform Society has said.
Police are searching for a missing 88-year-old man. Jeffrey Barker was last seen in the Cutgate area at 2pm today (Saturday 23 February). Please call police on 101 if you...
Date Published 23/02/2013
Sci-fi fanatics converged on Rochdale’s Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre for the inaugural Dale-Con convention this weekend. Organised by self-confessed science fiction nut Martin...
A multi-billion-pound scheme to help long-term unemployed people into work has been branded extremely poor by MPs. The government's Work Programme only managed to get 3.6% of...
The NHS offers essential emergency care at weekends. Yet there is mounting evidence that patients are more likely to die if admitted to hospital on Saturday or Sunday. This has...
Date Published 22/02/2013
Pesticides linked to the recent decline in the bee population will not be removed from the shelves of a popular Rochdale garden centre. Major DIY retailers including B&Q,...
A man who built a rear dormer on the back of a Middleton hairdressing salon without obtaining building regulation approval has been ordered to pay a total of £1,515 in fines and...
Communities across the UK are invited to apply for funding to host events to celebrate this year's Armed Forces Day on 29 June.
She disclosed how Whitworth sexually abused and raped her over a number of years. The abuse started when she was about seven years old and happened over a period of about 10...
Around 250 people attended an Energy Efficiency and Benefits Awareness event at Deeplish Community Centre on Wednesday 20 February 2013 to find out more about: the emerging...
Ann was a close personal friend and someone who instinctively inspired trust and confidence. On meeting her for the first time, I saw a rather brusque, confident countrywoman who...
Tributes have been paid to Councillor Ann Metcalfe today following her death this morning (22 February 2013). Born in 1945, she lived in Norden all her life and was a Conservative...
Around 40% of the children of Central Rochdale, Smallbridge & Firgrove, Kingsway, Milkstone & Deeplish and West Middleton live in poverty, according to a new report. An...
Date Published 21/02/2013
Bishop Nigel McCulloch, who recently retired, has become the first Bishop of Manchester to be honoured with a knighthood. The Queen invested him yesterday with his insignia as a...
Barbara Corbett, a self taught home baker has won two national competitions in the last year, "Queen of Cakes" and Easy Living Magazine.
Working in the media in Rochdale can be a very trying affair. There is a fine balance to be maintained between presenting the facts to the public, offering occasional opinion and...
Students were given a chance to visualise their future school on Thursday 14 February as three groups of Year 9 pupils were given a tour of the new school build at Wardle High...
‘Remarkable’ cadets and officers from Manchester raised nearly £160,000 for the national Poppy Appeal and won high praise from the Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester....
Claiming gift aid repayments will be quicker and easier for charities and sports clubs from April, says HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is inviting the local public from Oldham, Rochdale, Middleton and surrounding areas to join staff on this year’s Bupa Manchester 10K fun run...
The North West Ambulance Service’s Patient Experience work has won a top accolade at the 2013 Patient Experience Network National Awards ceremony, hosted at the Birmingham and...
A woman has been jailed for stealing more than £39,000 from the Rochdale business she worked at for more than 25 years. Sally Etchells (born 15/08/1967) of Church Street,...
Date Published 20/02/2013
Metrolink services to Rochdale – the latest chapter of the network’s expansion – will open to passengers for the first time on Thursday 28 February. Continuing on from the...
21 girls aged between 10-14 years from 21st Rochdale Guides have shown they are leading the way after completing their First Aid badge. The girls had to complete a series of...
The theft of a sealed lead flask containing radioactive material from a parked van in New Line, Bacup sometime over the weekend has caused safety fears amongst local residents.
Councils have been told to curb the pay of senior staff after figures suggested more than 28,000 are receiving at least £50,000 a year. The Taxpayers' Alliance, which campaigns...
Unemployment fell in the three months to December, while the number in work also jumped. The jobless total fell by 14,000 between October and December to 2.5 million, the...
Rochdale Borough Council is shelling out £2.5 million on a new entrance to the Wheatsheaf Centre in the hope it will get the money back from the developer of a proposed new...
Archdeacon Emeritus of Rochdale, Ven Mark Dalby, died on Monday 11 February 2013 at his home in the Beauchamp Community, Malvern, aged 75 years.
Date Published 19/02/2013
