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The President of the Rochdale Online Alliance Football League, Frank Alletson, has died. Mr Alletson became President of the league during the 1998/99 season after serving as...
Date Published 04/01/2010
Sunday (10 January), 10.30am, Sung Holy Communion service. During the service our Sunday School (Clemmie’s Club) meets in the hall and all children are welcome to join in. Said...
Irish bookmakers Paddy Power have applied to open a new shop in Rochdale town centre. They are proposing to take over the vacant property at 15 Yorkshire Street, formerly the...
A paperboy was attacked by a youth whilst delivering papers on New York Street, Heywood. The incident happened on Wednesday (30 December 2009) at 9am, when the offender...
A Rochdale man who threatened to kill a race horse has been given a suspended prison sentence. Andrew Rodgerson of Craiglands was sentenced at Bury Magistrates Court to 34...
Forgotten smoking materials caused a fire in a Heywood home. The blaze started in the bedroom of a terraced house on Corry Street, causing extensive damage to the room and...
The preacher at the Covenant Service at 10.30am on Sunday (10 January) will be Rev Malcolm Sharrock. In the evening at 6.30pm there is a Circuit Service at Smithy Bridge Methodist...
Two Rochdale schools are closed today (Monday 4 January) due to the freezing temperatures. Heating failure has forced St John Fisher primary school in Middleton and St James CE...
A three-year-old girl is in intensive care following a house fire on Boxing Day. The youngster was rescued following a blaze in the lounge area of a mid-terrace house on...
There was a treat at Rochdale Curtain theatre this Christmas as the 'Castleton type' village pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, proved to be a big hit. Judging from the...
Police are hunting three robbers who stabbed a man with a kitchen knife and stole cash from his home. The 28-year-old victim was in his home on Stamford Street on 20 December...
Year eleven pupils at Heywood Community High School are among the first to be offered places at the new Rochdale Sixth Form College, which will open in September. Eighteen...
With temperatures reaching as low as minus six overnight and unlikely to rise above minus two during Monday, commuters are advised to take great care on the Borough's roads....
Date Published 03/01/2010
Two surveys regarding parking permits for residents at Hollingworth Lake, costing £4,500, have failed to reach a conclusion. The Pennines Township has now decided to look at...
Using doorstep lenders and loan sharks is a bad idea when there is a cheaper alternative option available. Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) is working in partnership with GM...
Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) has added two new members of staff to its Money Matters Team - Sara Broome and Lisa Cavanagh. Ms Broome is the Opportunity Knocks Project...
Turf Hill Estate Management Board (EMB) provides a variety of community activities, as well as liaising with Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) on behalf of the estate. A recent...
There are currently many different types of equalities legislation on race, disability, sex, etc? These will soon all be coming under one single piece of legislation called the...
New rules mean that more help towards rent and council tax is available. If you have children, Child Benefit will no longer be counted as income, so more people on low income...
Police are appealing for help following a racist attack last November in which a man had his ankle fractured. At about 8pm on Monday 2 November 2009, the 21-year-old white...
Date Published 02/01/2010
New Year but same old story, the Lib Dem controlled Rochdale Borough Council is again advertising shopping facilities in another town - this time Radcliffe - despite repeatedly...
Just when it seemed the snow had gone and the roads were back to normal Rochdale has seen another heavy snowfall today (Saturday 2 January 2010). The Met Office is advising...
It’s a new year, for many that means a new start, a time for a new year resolution – or to fulfil last year’s. Of course sticking to the resolution is something different all...
The Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg MP, discovered on his recent visit to Rochdale that the history of his surname started right here - in Rochdale! On Mr Clegg’s...
Date Published 01/01/2010
The first Rochdale baby of 2010 was born at the Rochdale Infirmary Maternity Unit at fourteen minutes past eight this morning (1 January 2010). Proud parents, Shabnam and Raja...
Ghulam Rasul Shahzad, has been awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire) in the New Year's Honours List for his services to social housing and to the community in Rochdale....
Joan Phillips of Norden, who has worked tirelessly for 27 years to serve her charity, the Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI), has been awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the...
Greater Manchester Police has another tool in the fight against violence. As of mid December, the Force introduced more widespread use of limb restraints. They are made of...
Children needing a permanent home have become the latest casualty of the recession, according to local adoption agency Adoption Matters North-West. Potential adopters, including...
Is Rochdale Council having to pay over the odds for grit, due to not having enough of their own stock, is a question being asked after it was revealed that the Council approached...
