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Dale fans are urged to give cigarettes the red card and help the club reach the top of the Smokefree United League. Rochdale are currently in 21st place after only one smoker...
Date Published 07/12/2009
Eat your heart out Stephen Fry and Sarah Brown. The actor and the prime minister’s wife may have more followers, but Rochdale’s bus ticket sellers have taken the honours at...
More than £1 million will be handed to education bosses in Rochdale to provide one-to-one tuition for students struggling with English and maths. Under plans announced by...
Rochdale shoppers looking for perfect Christmas presents can buy family or friends a unique gift — a place in the first ever Shine event for Cancer Research UK. Shine is the...
Talks to save Lythgoe Motors Ltd and 23 jobs at its Rochdale site broke down on Friday. More than 40 jobs have now gone following the announcement by administrators Zolfo...
A special railway hit squad is to be called in to improve life for fed-up passengers in Rochdale. Since the loop line closure, travel has become chaotic with delays and...
Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Community Healthcare has appointed Debbie McCormack to help protect children who have been exposed to domestic violence.
A big thank you to all who supported our Christmas Coffee Morning and donated to our appeal for the “Make A Wish Foundation”. Sunday (13 December) is the “Third Sunday in...
Passengers travelling on the Leeds train from Manchester Victoria via Rochdale yesterday (Sunday 6 December) suffered severe overcrowding. The train departed at 15.11 and by...
On Saturday (12 December) at 7pm Rochdale Festival Choir present their Christmas Concert in the Church. The preacher at our morning service at 10.30am on Sunday (13 December)...
Members of the Spotland Area Forum and Save Spodden Valley planted woodland bulbs trees and a hedgerow on Saturday (5 December). The planting took place at the start of the...
Milnrow Junior Band recently entered its first slow melody contest at Skelmanthorpe and gained first prize for best quartet ensemble. The group is trained and conducted by...
A lovely array of colours were on show on Monday as children came to school wearing the clothes they had been bought for Eid. The dining hall was really busy as more children than...
People who live or work in Greater Manchester can now enrol for a National Identity Card. Appointments for members of the public to enrol their fingerprints have started at...
The deadline for residents to have their say about plans for the future development of Rochdale has been extended. The Council is putting together a new plan detailing what...
Yorkshire Street was packed top to bottom today (Sunday 6 December) with families eagerly awaiting Father Christmas and his reindeer. Real reindeer and a sleigh carrying Father...
Date Published 06/12/2009
Passengers on the Sunday train to Manchester were in for an extra treat today (Sunday 6 December) as they boarded the ‘Mince Pie Special Train.’ The train from Littleborough...
Over one hundred people took part in the Springhill Hospice Father Christmas Fun Run at Hollingworth Lake Littleborough this morning (Sunday 6 December). People of all ages...
A new high tech youth bus has been launched for the young people of the borough to use. The Youth Service Mobile Unit was officially opened today by Jack Lofthouse, Member of...
Date Published 05/12/2009
When it comes to being an achieving youngster Middleton lad Ben McLean fits the bill. So much so, that he has just been saluted by national charity Rathbone and Sir Alex...
Date Published 04/12/2009
A £50,000 Christmas present will be handed to council bosses to help them revitalise the borough’s high streets and attract more visitors. The money must be used to help find...
Multi-million pound bids to make Greater Manchester buses more eco-friendly have been approved by the Government. The Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive has made...
Five bands from Rochdale Music Service have won awards at the 2009 National Concert Band Festival in Warrington. Rochdale Junior Wind Band, Junior Big Band and the Youth Wind...
The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Rochdale Infirmary, joined local voluntary and other public sector organisations in highlighting the needs and rights of carers...
A tumble dryer caught fire and caused damage to a Middleton home. Two fire crews from Heywood attended the house on Cheapside at 8.05am yesterday morning (Thursday 3 December)...
Police are clamping down on illegal driving through no entry signs on Half Acre Lane, off Roch Valley Way. The narrow single lane is one way downhill from Half Acre Road to...
Just over a year since members of the Rotary Club of Rochdale were trained to befriend people with mental health problems, the scheme has been awarded the Approved Provider...
Date Published 03/12/2009
Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who assaulted a woman in Rochdale. Between 2:30am and 3am on Saturday (28 November), a taxi driver and his two...
Rochdale residents looking for a Christmas present with a difference can buy Rochdale Town Hall and put something back in to Greater Manchester. Between now and 24 December all...
A First World War memorial board from Rochdale has taken pride of place in the Fusiliers Museum after a long, hard campaign. The memorial board pays a special tribute to the...
