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Welcome back to all pupils and staff. We hope everyone had a peaceful Christmas and wish our whole community a very prosperous 2011. Welcome back also to those staff and pupils...
Date Published 11/01/2011
Students from Hopwood Hall College raised £150 and much needed donations of clothes and toys for women at St Gabriel’s temporary accommodation in the run up to Christmas.
A 90-year-old pensioner from Rochdale escaped a potentially fatal fire thanks to smoke alarms fitted as part of a programme of free Home Fire Risk Assessments carried out by...
Nine men have been arrested in connection with an investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rochdale. The men aged between 20 and 40 from Rochdale and Heywood were...
2011 was welcomed in with a rise in VAT to 20 per cent and David Cameron has finally admitted that poorer families on low pay would be hit hardest. The Council Budget to be...
Date Published 10/01/2011
The leader of a paedophile ring who sexually assaulted young children and shared the images has been jailed. Colin Blanchard, 40, from Rochdale received an indeterminate...
Rochdale Council has imported salt from Peru to avoid a repeat of last winter – which saw the Council criticised for failing to carry out sufficient gritting, making driving...
Four men from Rochdale who were arrested by armed police in Hull have been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery. The men, aged 19, 31, 31 and 36, were arrested in the...
A proposal to open a technical college in the North West has been welcomed by UKIP Euro MP Paul Nuttall.
Fire-fighters in Rochdale dealt with two fires yesterday (Sunday 9 January 2010) involving cookers.
Motorists are being advised that traffic on the M62 eastbound between J19 at Heywood and J20 at Rochdale is slow following an earlier accident.
Greater Manchester Police is holding a training event to help its officers tackle alcohol-related crime and disorder in licensed premises.
The Elephant and Castle on Bury Road opened under new management in November 2010. It has been completely stripped and refurbished and the new owners aim to bring in casual dining...
A dedicated health worker who has risen from cadet nurse to chief executive has been awarded an MBE.
Date Published 09/01/2011
A man has been charged with arson after cars were set alight in Heywood. More than half a dozen cars were set on fire on Kent Walk and Benmore Close, off Livsey Lane, in...
The number of people looking up flu information on the NHS website increased tenfold compared to last year, new figures reveal.
A project funded by Rochdale Borough Council is being investigated by the Council's internal audit team following controversy over what appears to be an “unbelievable” amount of...
Date Published 08/01/2011
RSPCA centres are looking after more pets and wildlife than ever before after a hectic festive season.
A 63-year-old man was attacked by a car-jacking gang in Norden on Thursday (6 January 2011). A 12.40pm the man, who was working in Whitemoss, was dragged from his white Ford...
Health leaders and senior doctors have made a fresh appeal to people in local communities for their support as GP and A&E teams cope with record numbers of patients.
Rochdale Council has been placed 196 out of 212 in a national league table for repairing potholes. Figures collected by the CTC, the national cycling organisation, show that...
The Department of Health is to make an extra £162 million available to local health and care services to spend this financial year on front line services.
The funeral of stock car racer Stuart Smith will take place next week. Mr Smith, described as “the first true super star of stock car racing” passed away on Thursday 23...
A massive bridge appeared in Rochdale over the weekend, when GMPTE’s engineers erected it between 1 and 3 January. The 52-metre bridge will carry trams over the...
Date Published 07/01/2011
Spodden Valley campaigners will find out next week whether a building application for the controversial site has been rejected. A deadline set by Rochdale Council for MMC...
A pregnant woman was given oxygen therapy after inhaling smoke from a kitchen fire in Heywood yesterday (Thursday 6 January 2011). The 23-year-old was treated at the scene...
School pupils in Rochdale are set to benefit from a new multi-million pound building project. A brand new £2.9 million school will be finished by Christmas at Deeplish Primary...
An investigation by The Times into the sexual exploitation of girls has shown an overwhelming number of cases of seduction and serial rape of underage girls carried out by Muslim...
Date Published 06/01/2011
Hopwood Hall College has a Code of Conduct for its students and this year they decided they want to revamp the posters with the help of their students.
A Rochdale woman has been nominated for a top national award after losing an incredible 11 stone. Until she turned nine, Steph Brown, 24, was a healthy, happy, popular,...
