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The weekend of Sunday 5 February brought ice, snow and fog. By Saturday night the M62 from Yorkshire had become an accident waiting to happen and the road to the Castleton Sports...
Date Published 06/03/2012
Organisers of the Springhill Hospice Spring Fair are asking that anybody wishing to donate goods should contact them as soon as possible. Alison McGuigan, Fundraiser at the...
Moose Patrol, a young band from Castleton, has wowed the judging panel of the UK’s biggest original music competition. The band sailed through the audition stage of ‘Live and...
Hopwood Hall College’s new Technology Centre was officially opened by John Hayes MP, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning, today. The £7m...
Rochdale featured on the BBC’s Inside Out North West on Monday night (5 March). The programme focused on Liz Kershaw, returning to her home town to see how it has ‘fared in...
Letters out this week: Year 6 High School for September 2012 Music Tuition fees Unit 2 Health Education
The school is now using Parentmail2 as their electronic communication system. All students should have brought a letter home regarding registration for this. The registration code...
Ofsted Inspection - Firstly I would like to take this opportunity to thank parents/carers for your support during the inspection this week. A fantastic figure of 81% of parents...
Serving the Anglican Parish of Wardle and Smallbridge and the Methodist Circuit of Rochdale and Littleborough, this Sunday our Communion service is led by Rev Andrew Howell at...
A former Rochdale Council employee, who was diagnosed with Mesothelioma, has been awarded a substantial settlement. Mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive form of terminal...
Date Published 05/03/2012
Today marks a poignant time for the family of Ciaron Nuttall — the teenager who went missing exactly a year ago. Ciaron was last seen in Cardigan Street, Royton, and hasn’t...
The official closure of the British Aerospace Factory in Chadderton is a massive blow to the locality. The site has provided thousands of jobs throughout the local area, including...
Gertrude Warrener is celebrating her 100th birthday today. The centenarian, born in 1912, celebrated with a glass of sherry and a telegram from the Queen, surrounded by her...
Annette Anderson is the new Chief Superintendent of Greater Manchester Police’s Rochdale Division. She replaces John O’Hare, who leaves the borough to take command of GMP’s...
Members of the Rotary Club of Rochdale have enjoyed an ‘ear thumping’ talk from Audiologist Natalie Wilson.
The growing numbers of horses being reported as abandoned or neglected is putting the RSPCA under pressure like never before. The charity is dealing with large numbers of dead...
The preacher at the Communion Service at 10.30am on Sunday (11 March) will be Rev Malcolm Sharrock. There will also be Kidzone Activities for children aged 5-12. At 3.00pm we...
Greater Manchester Police is promising to blight cannabis crops and weed out and imprison the criminals that sow fear and misery by setting up cannabis farms in local communities...
Around 100 members of the National Front and the North West Infidels took part in a protest in Heywood today (Saturday 3 March). The demonstration, which took place in the...
Date Published 03/03/2012
A man chased off offenders who tried to rob his flat. It happened during an attempted robbery at a flat above the Sandbrook pub on Sandbrook Way, Rochdale, at about 1.30am...
Date Published 02/03/2012
A witness to an alleged rape broke down in tears as she told a jury about the “horrible” and “disgusting” moment she realised a teenage girl was being forced to have sex for...
A single fire control centre for most of the North-West has been given the go-ahead — more than a year after the Government vowed to dump a near-identical scheme. Greater...
The Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust, which runs the Rochdale Infirmary, is to cut upto 160 jobs. The job losses are as a result of fewer patients being transferred to hospitals...
Staff and pupils at Little Heaton CE Primary School are brimming with excitement this week as the Bishop of Middleton, The Right Reverend Mark Davies, has conducted a blessing to...
Rochdale based charity, The Petrus Community, which supports local homeless people, has secured a one-off grant of nearly £1,500 to develop a gardening project at their Beswicke...
Shoppers in Rochdale have the chance to win some fantastic prizes and learn more about fair trade thanks to a great new competition.
Castleton is home to a variety of shops, from a card shop and a cobblers to a bakers and a PC repairer, it is proof that you don’t have to go far to do your shopping. The...
Date Published 01/03/2012
Heywood and Middleton MP, Jim Dobbin, has called on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to back Britain’s beer and pub sector by calling time on planned punitive tax increases in the...
Two masked men brandishing a sword threatened staff at a Middleton supermarket. At about 7.30pm last night (Wednesday 29 February), the offenders went into the Aldi store on...
Young people from around the borough have been learning about the importance of fair trade - from someone who really knows. Around 100 school pupils attended a very special...
