You are Here: Home » News » News Search
Welcome to the News Search.
You can browse through our news archive using the list below or use the following search form.
59636 Article(s) Found
Vigorous exercise is good for health, but only if it’s limited to a maximum daily dose of between 30 and 50 minutes, say researchers in an editorial published online in Heart....
Date Published 30/11/2012
As temperatures plunge, water bosses are revving up for winter with a fleet of new ice-beating tankers and vehicles. But engineers at United Utilities are worried that some...
A Rochdale business has saddled up to receive a special award from Transport for Greater Manchester after taking first place in the 2012 Cycle Challenge. Zen Internet, which...
Greater Manchester Police is cracking down this Christmas on people who attempt to drive while under the influence of drink or drugs. The work forms part of GMP’s road safety...
Firefighters freed a man who was trapped in a gritting lorry after it collided with a house and overturned in Rochdale. Two crews from Rochdale and an Emergency Response Unit...
Police in Rochdale are opening a town centre ‘cop shop’ in the Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre as a base for patrol officers over the busy Christmas period and to provide shoppers with...
Rochdale Online has discovered that HQN, a housing consultancy firm hired by Rochdale Borough Council to help with its Strategic Review of Homelessness in the borough, has...
Date Published 29/11/2012
Transport cleaners operating services across the north will be taking strike action from Friday as part of national fight for justice for staff working on cleaning and security...
Upwards cost pressures for commodities and oil continue to fuel high inflation in the food and grocery sector, according to new research from Verdict. While supermarkets are able...
Rhema Theatre Rhema Theatre performed their Christmas show “No Room at the Inn” in the school hall on Tuesday for the whole school. It was wonderful for the children to see and...
Winter/Christmas Fair – Please come along and join us at our Fair this Friday, 30 November at 3.20pm onwards. Stalls Chocolate Tombola; Bottle Tombola; Face painting; Pint...
Hopwood Hall College has offered to help an appeal aimed at helping disadvantaged youngsters this Christmas.
A special bolt tightening ceremony marking the fourth month of construction of Rochdale’s new transport interchange has taken place. Cllr Andrew Fender, Chairman of the...
A Speech and Language Therapist from Heywood has won a national award for his work to help young children with language difficulties.
The score might have been a 0-0 draw but the match was one to remember when eight-year-old footie fan Ryan Kelly went to see his beloved Rochdale AFC play live.
Five people have been charged after £500,000 worth of cannabis was seized by Greater Manchester Police. On 26 and 27 November 2012, officers executed warrants in the Salford,...
Lloyd was 20 when he died suddenly on 20 November 2012. He leaves a son, Mason who is just five weeks old.
The failure to charge Cyril Smith with sex abuse means "justice has been cheated", a solicitor representing one of his alleged victims has said. On Tuesday, Greater Manchester...
Police are hunting a man wanted on recall to prison. Nathan Downey (born 09/08/1990) was sentenced in 2010 for robbery and burglary offences and released in July 2012. He is...
Date Published 28/11/2012
A town hall porter undertook a sponsored leg wax to raise money for the restoration of the roof panels in The Great Hall. Simon Ross suffered in the name of art to help raise...
The government is to change the law to allow restrictions to be imposed on the interest rates charged for so-called "payday loans". The news follows concerns over annual interest...
Comet is to close a further 125 stores – with the loss of 2,500 jobs – over the next few weeks, and it may shut down its entire business before the end of the year unless a buyer...
A man who claims to have been physically abused by the late Sir Cyril Smith has called for a "full public inquiry" into the allegations. On Tuesday, Greater Manchester Police...
The number of pupils attending a good or better high school in Rochdale has decreased. The figure of 67 per cent, for the percentage of pupils at a secondary judged as good or...
A woman from Middleton duped a frail pensioner out of hundreds of pounds after he became infatuated with her, a court heard. Prosecutors say widower John Hurst (80), virtually...
Shaw man Andrew Partington, 27, today (28 November) admitted at Manchester Crown Court the manslaughter of two-year-old Jamie Heaton - killed in a gas blast at his home on June...
As many people are now starting to do their Christmas shopping, GMP is raising awareness of vehicle security due to thieves being on the lookout for cars laden with gifts, or...
All year groups are busy preparing for their Advent charity work. We have already sent off 115 Christmas shoe boxes to Belarus and now we are working to help needy people much...
A man suffered burns when he fell into a boiling chemical solution at a food factory. The 37-year-old man had burns to his legs and back when he fell into a quantity of...
TV star Larry Hagman’s death from mouth cancer has prompted one charity to remind people about the dangers posed by the disease.
