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Next month’s elections for the new Police and Crime Commissioner have so far failed to capture the public imagination. The new posts attract salaries of £100,000 per year and the...
Date Published 26/10/2012
The role of Police and Crime Commissioner is a new and exciting role that can transform policing and crime. For the first time ever one person will be responsible for policing and...
Next week sees the launch of the Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre’s Rewards for Schools on Monday 1 October. The campaign offers local schools the chance to win cash prizes, with...
Manchester United midfielder Ryan Tunnicliffe has admitted being nearly twice the drink-drive limit when he crashed his Range Rover into a van. Tunnicliffe, 19, of Clemshaw...
Date Published 25/10/2012
A new local Council Tax Benefit scheme will replace the current national scheme in April 2013. In Rochdale decisions about who gets Council Tax Support and how much will have...
On 15 November 2012 the public across England and Wales will elect Police and Crime Commissioners who will be accountable for how crime is tackled in their police force area.
With energy bills set to rise again just in time for winter, Rochdale borough residents are being offered the chance to save money by joining a big power switch-over.
Two of Hopwood Hall College’s business clients have been shortlisted for ‘Apprentice Employer of the Year’.
Government action to enshrine Town Hall transparency as an everyday activity will now also open up punitive parking charges to public scrutiny, Local Government Secretary Eric...
Police in Rochdale are continuing to investigate the murder of Vincent Kershaw, three weeks after his death. At about 5.10pm on Sunday 14 October 2012, police were called to a...
Volunteers from Lower Falinge Activity Group (LFAG) gathered at Hebron Church on Wednesday 24 October to celebrate a year that for those involved has been full of achievements.
A couple were terrorised by intruders who broke into their Middleton home. Sometime between 6.30pm and 7.45pm on Wednesday 24 October 2012, a 57-year-old man answered a call...
Police have issued CCTV footage showing the moment a teenage boy was assaulted in Rochdale. Officers have already issued a witness appeal to catch the man who attacked the...
Police are investigating the assault of a man at a pub in Middleton. On Sunday 21 October 2012, police were informed that a 22-year-old man had been admitted to hospital with...
Organisers of Rochdale Foodbank have been utterly amazed at the generosity of Rochdale people over the recent Harvest period.
Jack Stanton is the toast of his colleagues at Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) after winning the overall Trainee of the Year award at the organisation’s recent awards ceremony.
According to figures published by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) today, 1,322 cases of whooping cough (pertussis) were reported in England and Wales in September 2012,...
A man was dragged out of a post office and savagely assaulted in front of his four-year-old son. It happened outside the Newbold Post Office on Milnrow Road, Rochdale, between...
Rochdale Town Hall, renowned worldwide for its unique architecture, is hoping to get more visitors to the Grade 1 Victorian Gothic Masterpiece after launching a new on-line...
Date Published 24/10/2012
Road safety campaigners joined forces today (24 October) on Albert Square, Manchester to demonstrate how the emergency services work together to rescue road accident victims...
A gang of jewellery thieves who stole more than £1.8m worth of goods have been jailed thanks. Fraser Hart Jewellers on Yorkshire Street, Rochdale, was one of the one of the...
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has launched a new smart phone app making it easier than ever to jump on-or-off the city centre’s popular Metroshuttle buses.
Children who attend Rochdale Infirmary’s Urgent Care Centre (UCC) with minor injuries and illness are set to benefit from a new segregated area created especially for them.
Early Halloween trick-or-treaters? No, these intriguing faces are the results of three talented media make-up students from Hopwood Hall College who were entered into the...
Rock and roll came to Rochdale in the form of a ‘vintage’ street party for the older residents of a sheltered accommodation scheme.
Rochdale residents and visitors have an impressive new gateway to the town centre, thanks to a brand new look for the Hopwood Hall College campus.
Police across Rochdale are taking part in the annual Treacle campaign in the build up to, and during, the Halloween and Bonfire Night period.
Former pupils of Rochdale Boys Grammar School travelled from as far away as Vancouver and South Africa to Rochdale last Saturday to celebrate the school’s heritage and to renew...
Following Rochdale Sixth Form College’s 99% A level pass rate earlier this year, 900 potential students and their parents and carers attended the college’s open day to see...
Home Retail Group, which owns Argos, is planning to close or relocate at least 75 of the catalogue retailer's stores over the next five years. It is part of the company's plans...
