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Greater Manchester police are appealing for information after three people were threatened with a gun in their flat in Middleton.
Date Published 09/08/2010
Word reaches my rheumy old ears about the Town Centre Mis-management’s latest contribution to their ‘Shop Local’ initiative that they’ve been pushing down our throats for the past...
Date Published 08/08/2010
Sunday 15 August 2010: 10am-Noon Coffee Morning and Bring and Buy Sale. Admission is £1.00 including Coffee and Biscuits.
Youngsters from Heywood showcased their talents at a special event held in Queen’s Park today (Sunday 8 August 2010). ‘Heywood’s got Young Talent’ was the idea of the Friends...
The preacher at our morning service at 10.30am on Sunday 15 August, will be one of our former church members Rev Derek Allen from Bacup.
A group of travellers have set up on a piece of land at the junction of Albert Royds Street and Riverside Drive. Residents in the area said that the convoy of seven caravans...
Date Published 07/08/2010
The brand new Woodland Enviro Gym at Hollingworth Lake was officially opened today (Saturday 7 August 2010) by Littleborough Councillor, Stephanie Mills.
Cricket fans turned out in full force this evening (Friday 6 August 2010) to support a charity match. Professional and amateur cricketers from across the borough took part in...
Date Published 06/08/2010
A man has been charged with two robberies in Milnrow. Mark Higginson, 44, of Hebble Butt Close, Milnrow was charged with two counts of robbery on 30 June 2010.
Kirkholt is set to receive extra housing after it was chosen as one of the priority areas by the Greater Manchester Executive. The scheme is one of 29 schemes throughout...
Free Saturday car parking will start tomorrow (Saturday 6 August 2010) on all council owned car parks in Rochdale. At a cabinet meeting where the decision was rubber stamped...
The Leader of Rochdale Council, Councillor Irene Davidson, has set up an online petition via the Council’s website in a bid to highlight the proposed closure of Rochdale...
A former soldier facing a possible death sentence in Iraq has appealed to the Prime Minister to help him. Danny Fitzsimons, from Middleton, made the direct plea to David...
A group of people from Milnrow’s MAD Theatre Company visited Clegg Hall, off Wildhouse Lane recently to conduct a ghost hunt.
A programme to support and enable patients in the borough to manage their long term conditions has successfully rolled out at a GP Practice for the first time.
Smokefree North West is bringing a roadshow to the Rochdale Exchange Shopping this month, as part of its ‘Take 7 Steps Out’ campaign. The roadshow aims to help parents and...
A Middleton woman and her stepson are getting ready to start the same college course in September. Mature student Karen Harris, 31, always dreamed of becoming a police officer...
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale and Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Community Healthcare have been awarded the first stage of the UNICEF Baby Friendly status for their...
An Ofsted inspection of Rochdale's safeguarding and looked after children services, carried out in July, has been officially announced today (Friday 6 August 2010). The...
Motorists have been left angered by Rochdale Council following a change of rules in parking on Maclure Road. Numerous commuters who get the train from Rochdale park their cars...
Greater Manchester Police has been informed that BT has now resolved the telephone problems caused by engineering works. These issues did not affect the police emergency or...
Research from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has revealed a higher incidence of listeriosis in pregnant women from ethnic minority groups and, overall, in people living in...
Date Published 05/08/2010
I have written recently about the real threat to education and health following the Con Dem budget announcement. Now we hear that Neighbourhood Policing is under threat throughout...
Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Andy Smith, a Paramedic from Middleton serving on the Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan is putting himself...
A terminal cancer sufferer who was given a year to live 18 months ago is preparing for a charity bike ride. Despite only recently finishing chemotherapy treatment, Norman...
Building sites are not adventure playgrounds – that is the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) message to parents and children as school holidays get underway in the North West.
Parents planning to take their children on visits to petting farms and other visitor attractions with animals during the summer holidays are being urged to take particular care...
MP for Middleton and Heywood, Jim Dobbin has joined with numerous citizens groups, campaigners, MPs and celebrities who have called on the government to end legal loan sharking.
130,000 households in the North West will lose on average £10 a week (£520 a year) as a result of changes to housing benefit announced in June’s Emergency Budget. The analysis...
Cycling Olympians Ed Clancy and Bradley Wiggins have announced they’ll be taking part in this year’s Tour of Britain, the UK’s equivalent of the Tour de France. The cycling...
Date Published 04/08/2010
