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This Sunday is a special Sunday for Methodist Churches in the Littleborough area as they celebrate with Mrs Mary Frost 25 years as a Methodist Local Preacher. As a result there...
Date Published 24/07/2012
My question at Prime Minister's Questions to David Cameron on asbestos about to be exported from Canada to India also has strong connections with Rochdale.
Last weekend saw the sun shine on Littleborough as it celebrated the biggest event in its calendar – the annual Rushbearing Festival.
Date Published 23/07/2012
Parents who smoke in the Rochdale borough are being reminded that they should take ‘7 steps’ out of the house when smoking.
When it comes to fire safety, Heywood firefighters are saying it with flowers. The fire station has got into the spirit of the North West in Bloom initiative by ensuring their...
Milnrow Brass Band played at The Salvation Army Citadel in Warrington at a charity concert in aid of Warrington Hospital’s Neonatal Unit last weekend.
The Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum has been awarded for the fantastic experience it gives visitors by being accredited as a Quality Assured Visitor Attraction for the...
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) is holding a series of clinics this week to support young people at risk of deliberately starting fires. The clinics mark...
Older people living in Rochdale will be the first in the North to have an opportunity to join a ‘Circle organisation’.
Since April, Cartwheel Arts’ Tell Us Another One project has been working with Year 7 students at Falinge Park High School, Rochdale, to create artists’ books on a ghostly theme....
Anger has been expressed anger over the appointment of a private company, APCOA to run the car parks at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The Trust claims that the new...
Sunday trading laws in England and Wales have been suspended until the end of the Olympics and Paralympics.
Date Published 22/07/2012
The body of a women has been found in Rochdale Canal in Smithy Bridge. Officers were called to the canal bank off Smithybridge Road shortly after noon today (Friday 20 July)...
Date Published 20/07/2012
When Councillor Karen Burke was planning her wedding to Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk she turned to Hopwood Hall College make-up students to help make sure she was the belle of the...
Opened in January this year, the Italian Job is a cosy, bistro style restaurant based on Huddersfield Road, Newhey. We visited on a Thursday night, the steak special night,...
A man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for the historic sexual abuse of three boys in Rochdale. John Wright (born 16/01/1949), of Hornets Close, Rochdale has been...
With just 100 days to go until the North West welcomes global co-operators to the region, Rochdale is getting set to welcome co-operators to the world capital of co-operatives.
Services provided to young people with disabilities around the borough have been praised by Ofsted inspectors in a recent report.
Events on the highway Station Road, Littleborough (NEW) - from its junction with Church Street to its junction with Peel Street Temporary road closure to facilitate...
Two workers were fortunate to escape with only minor injuries when they fell from a school roof, a court has heard.
Construction of Rochdale’s new bus and tram interchange – set to be the first in Europe with integrated hydropower generation – is due to start this month.
The government has announced plans to try to revitalise the UK's High Streets Ministers are cutting red tape to make it easier for business people to move into empty premises...
Teachers at Whitworth High School received basic life-saving training from the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) this week.
Snakes in the grass could become a common danger in Britain’s countryside if UKIP politicians get their way, a Euro-MP has warned.
Data on all 151 fixed speed safety cameras in Greater Manchester has been posted on the Greater Manchester Casualty Reduction Partnership’s website today. The figures show the...
Date Published 19/07/2012
Young cadets from uniformed services across the county teamed up at Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) recently to design a new logo.
Firefighters from Heywood Fire Station were given a once in a lifetime opportunity when they were invited train at the circus.
Almost 40 per cent of the company’s 54 factories were working today during the 24-hour strike called by the GMB and Unite unions.
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) in the North has welcomed Food and Farming Minister Jim Paice’s call for the catering industry to tell diners where their food...
Muslim residents in the borough are being advised about healthy fasting during Ramadan, which is expected to start in the UK on Friday 20 July 2012 for one lunar month.
