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Rochdale and District Motor Club has donated £500 to Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue Team. Graham Dalley, chairman of the mountain rescue organisation said: “It came out of...
Date Published 04/06/2010
Free speech advocates have been given a boost by the publication of Lord Lester’s Private Member’s Defamation Bill. The Bill, which had its first reading last week, seeks to...
Just eight years ago Ioannis Ntizoglou was the novice student learning English. Now he is a lecturer of IT at Hopwood Hall College. He arrived from Athens, the Greek capital, in...
Steve Ashworth has been out this week with his Fire Safety team across the Rochdale Borough. On Tuesday (1 June 2010), he gave a fire safety presentation at Standguide,...
The GM Work Place Challenge is encouraging as many people as possible in Greater Manchester to cycle to work. The aim is for businesses across the area to challenge their...
Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk chaired a meeting at Parliament on Wednesday, 2 June to discuss the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara, a flotilla carrying international aid to Gaza....
Michael Badham, 61, from Middleton was named ‘Volunteer of the Year’ this evening (Thursday 3 June 2010) at a prestigious awards ceremony held at the Rochdale Town Hall. Mr...
Date Published 03/06/2010
Carers who have a relative or friend needing hospital treatment will be helped with a new charter from the Pennine Acute Hospital Trust. The trust, which runs the Rochdale...
The Greater Manchester Health Commission has welcomed the announcement from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to support curbs on the sale of cheap...
You could say that the visit of the Yorkshire Stompers to Jazz on a Sunday was “fair dinkum”, as the Jazz Club hosted two visitors from the Victoria Jazz society all the way from...
Councillors were paid more than £700,000 in allowances during the last financial year. Figures published by Rochdale Borough Council show amounts vary from former Liberal...
Mr Ghulam Rasul Shahzad received his OBE (Order of the British Empire) Honour from Her Majesty the Queen in a prestigious ceremony held at Buckingham Palace yesterday (Wednesday 2...
Rochdale’s brand new £26million sixth form college is nearing completion following 14 months of hard work from over 150 workmen. The site, close to Asda in the town centre will...
Over 100 new Tesco recruits were honoured last week after securing jobs in the new Tesco extra store in Middleton. A scheme offering work to unemployed people out of work for six...
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale are working with local pharmacies to raise awareness about bowel cancer. Pharmacists have been talking to patients and informing them of the...
Roy Bowden and David McKail have been awarded for outstanding service to the Rochdale Area Watch Association at its Annual general meeting. Mr Bowden, former secretary, completed...
Accountants RSM Tenon give their take on the forthcoming budget. It only seems five minutes ago since the last budget but the political landscape has changed out of all...
Date Published 02/06/2010
Rochdale Football Club’s kit man, Jack Northover, did a naked skydive last Friday 28 May to raise money for the club and Factor 50, a cancer charity. After the team reached the...
Drivers are being advised to avoid Yorkshire Street close to the junction with Elliot Street, Rochdale as a hole in the road has appeared and is causing serious delays....
The Rochdale Youth Orchestra recently performed their Spring Spectacular at Gracie Fields Theatre. The programme included Beethoven and Abba to name but a few.
Fire crews attended a blaze at a derelict mill on Dell Road in Shawclough last night (Tuesday 1 June 2010). On arrival to Healey Hall Mill fire fighters found a fire involving a...
The Rochdale Council of Mosques and Simon Danczuk, MP have called for an independent investigation into the Israeli’s attack on the Gaza aid ship, the Mavi Marmara. Chair...
This year Springhill Hospice is inviting people to attend a Summer Gala Day and Fair in place of their traditional Spring Fair. The fair will take place at the Hospice on...
The end of June 2010 will see Greater Manchester’s Deputy County Fire Officer Kieran Nolan retire after 32 years serving the people of Greater Manchester. He started his fire...
Up to one million cases of food-borne illness are reported each year in the UK. Approximately 20,000 people are hospitalised and 500 die from these diseases. Here in Rochdale...
Rochdale-born Martin Hartley has just returned from a gruelling 60-day expedition to the North Pole. Renowned as one of the leading travel photographers in the world, he went...
The Blue Lounge has been stripped of its Best Bar None status after ignoring warnings from local authorities about failing to comply with licensing laws.
Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue Team are organising a charity 42-mile hike to raise money to continue funding their work across 350 square miles of East Lancashire,...
A callous thief tricked a pensioner into giving him more than £1,500 for a mobility scooter that never existed. The conman pretended he was selling her the scooter and twice...
The Co-operative Milnrow Band came third place at the Whit Friday Contest in Saddleworth, winning over £1,000 prize money. The band did a tour of the Saddleworth villages...
