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The election for the new Police and Crime Commissioner has completely failed to excite the borough’s electorate. A massive 77.9 of them decided to stay at home as the Polling...
Date Published 16/11/2012
Midwives at The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust are celebrating after achieving an outstanding result in a recent breastfeeding support audit.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) North West today issued advice on how to avoid the vomiting illness norovirus that traditionally becomes much more prevalent in the winter...
A Rochdale-based dance teacher had her hair shaved off in public to raise money for charity.
Project Harar Our chosen Christmas Charity this year is Project Harar Ethiopia. The charity provides medical care for children with facial disfigurements so that they can eat,...
Date Published 15/11/2012
You don't need to ogle the isobars to know that a winter cold snap will hit us sooner or later. Yet a third of householders in the North West are not sure how to stop their...
Gas rip off whistleblower Seth Freedman who on Monday made allegations of extensive manipulation in Britain’s £300bn wholesale gas market, has brought his concerns to the...
Over 50 students, both youth and adult, from the across the borough received their qualification certificates from Derek O’Toole (Principal of Hopwood Hall College), Jill Nagy...
Liberal Democrat Councillor Dale Mulgrew, Shadow Economic Affairs Portfolio-Holder, has urged senior councillors to identify the ‘big name’ retailers who, it is claimed, have...
A blue plaque honouring the late Rochdale MP Sir Cyril Smith has been taken down following allegations that he indecently assaulted young boys. The council said removing the...
Administrators have been called in at Brimar Limited. Brimar, which employs 90 people at the Chadderton Industrial Estate in Middleton, provides displays, components and...
Date Published 14/11/2012
The ringleader of a gang of youths who plagued the Cray estate with anti social behaviour has been given an Anti Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) at Bury Magistrates Court recently....
Winter/Christmas Fair Friday 30 November at 3.20pm. We would like to thank St. Martin’s Charity Shop for their support and donations. Stalls Chocolate Tombola; Bottle...
A rapping water-efficient camel has helped water company United Utilities scoop two top awards.
The winners of the ‘Name our Gardening Club’ competition are Joe Battersby and Ashleigh Boardman. They came up with the brilliant name ‘The Mowtivators’. Well done. If you would...
Figures released today show that 84,500 people were claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) in Greater Manchester (GM) in October 2012 – a reduction of 450 (0.5%) when compared with...
Tickets from our forthcoming show, ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ are now available directly from school priced at £3.50 each and £12.00 for a family ticket. The show...
MEP Paul Nuttall is kicking up a stink over the EU getting sniffy over perfumes. "There really is no area of our day to day lives that a the EU won't interfere in," he said.
Many thanks to everyone who supported our Year 7 Operation Christmas Child project which was extremely successful for a third year running. The boxes were collected on Tuesday and...
A toddler with special needs has lost his very special teddy, a 6" Makka Pakka. His mother is appealing "has anyone has picked it up"? On Thursday 1 November, she went into...
Date Published 13/11/2012
Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk has called for a "full investigation" into allegations that Sir Cyril Smith, the town's former MP, indecently assaulted boys in care. Mr Danczuk said...
MP for Heywood and Middleton, Jim Dobbin met with residents Christine Abbott, Kim Finnegan and Marilyn McCall at Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s 13th annual Westminster Fly-In event...
There was a 26 per cent drop in anti-social behaviour on Halloween and Bonfire Night. Anti-social behaviour fell from 830 incidents between 22 October and 9 November last year...
Green fingered residents of Manchester Road, Rochdale are in the pink after scooping the first prize in the 2012 Alley in Bloom competition. Aiden and Nadine Finn entered with...
A group of volunteers, known as the Critical Friends Core Group, recently undertook heartstart training, which teaches life-saving CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) as well as...
On Monday afternoon the whole school will be watching a performance of Dick Whittington, performed by LADA productions. This pantomime is free of charge, funded by school as a...
If you have a son or daughter who is unsure how to get started in today’s difficult job market, so give Hopwood Hall College a call. The offer comes as new research shows that...
An EU scheme which could lead to a deluge of young jobless Europeans coming into the country has been condemned MEP Paul Nuttall.
A new nationwide survey has revealed awareness of mouth cancer has continued to decline over the last three years.
A man who drove the wrong way along a motorway while drunk has been jailed for killing a passenger in a car that he smashed into. Wilfred Museka (born 10/05/1981), of Powell...
