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Smokers are costing North West employers £225.5 million every year according to the first ever study of the detailed cost of smoking to UK businesses published today. The...
Date Published 17/06/2009
The Littleborough man charged with possession of child porn has been remanded in custody and is expected to face a joint trial alongside Plymouth nursery worker Vanessa...
An 81-year-old woman was forced to the floor as a man stole her handbag in Middleton. The victim was walking along a cut through from Woodland Way to Park Way in Alkrington at...
Rochdale Council will commemorate British Armed Forces Day with a flag raising ceremony at the town hall next week. The ceremony, being held at 10.30 am on Monday (22 June)...
Date Published 16/06/2009
A well-loved police horse is hanging up his saddle for the last time, as he approaches retirement. Snodgrass, 18, has been working for Greater Manchester Police since he was...
Whitworth Amateur Musical & Dramatic Society open this week with the regional amateur premiere of the multi award winning Musical RENT at the Curtain Theatre in...
British Transport Police in the North West has received the stamp of approval from a top award body. Last week BTP in the North West was handed a Big Tick at the annual...
Woodland Primary School is setting a trend for other schools to follow, accoring to Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin. Mr Dobbin mentioned the Regent Street school in...
As part of the National Child Safety Week (22 – 28 June) Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service are issuing a series of warnings to all parents and guardians which highlight...
A crackdown on NHS fraud at Rochdale Infirmary will continue following two successful prosecutions. Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the Infirmary, has promised...
The massive slump in the construction industry has blown a black hole in the coffers of Rochdale council. Information uncovered by the Conservatives show councils across the...
The number of ladettes fined for being drunk has risen by nearly a third in Greater Manchester in just three years — whereas young men are curbing their drinking. According to...
Children affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster can return to Rochdale — after Milnrow and Newhey MP Phil Woolas confirmed a row with Belarus had been resolved. The...
Human sewage could power to Rochdale homes under an innovative trial project based in Manchester. Methane gas will be extracted from tons of waste, to provide fuel for heating...
This has been an extremely traumatic week in the House of Commons. The expected leadership challenge to Gordon Brown, much hyped by the tabloid press, fizzled out like a damp...
Commuters ditched their cars for pedal bikes this morning (Tuesday 16 June) as part of a healthy initiative for National Bike Week. Rochdale Online News reporter Kirsty Rigg...
The Littleborough man arrested over the possession of indecent images of children is to appear at Manchester Crown Court today (Tuesday 16 June). The arrest of Colin Blanchard,...
The cost of pitch hire from Rochdale Council is slowly killing local amateur football, according to a committee member from the Rochdale Sunday League. The council plans to...
Date Published 15/06/2009
Five people were arrested in Rochdale as part of a drugs week of action across the Force to tackle drug crime. Officers were out in force across the borough between 10 and 12...
Thieves clasped a teenage motorist by the head and lugged him from his driving seat, before making off in his car. Two men in balaclavas targeted the 18-year-old victim as he...
Rochdale Council are reminding shoppers in Rochdale and Middleton that parking in the town centres is free if they arrive after 3pm. The reminder comes because many people have...
Health workers, fire service, road safety and the police will be at the Middleton Arndale Centre on 25 June to talk to people about different safety issues, as part of National...
Greater Manchester Police seized drugs with an estimated street value of more than £1.74 million in raids on 64 properties across the region last week, leading to 69 arrests....
A man arrested following an armed robbery at a town centre bank last Thursday (11 June) has been bailed pending further inquiries. The incident saw machete-wielding thugs rob...
Whitworth Road has proved to be such an eyesore that residents have voted that it be the first area in Rochdale to benefit from a Community Payback clean-up. Rochdale residents...
Local businesses and Rochdale Council will discover the environmental and economic benefits of travel planning at a seminar being organised by the Highways Agency. Seventy...
Thousands of pounds is being spent on making Rochdale train stations safer places to be. New CCTV cameras, help points, customers information screens and public announcement...
The development of a five storey office block and flats in Heywood has been approved by councillors despite concerns over parking in the town centre. There are no plans to...
There are 19,400 workers in Rochdale who receive child and working tax credits. These workers are 21.7% of those of working age in employment who live in the town. They...
Date Published 14/06/2009
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale have been slammed for appointing a single-faith provider to procure a GP-led health centre in Middleton. Speaking at the LMC's conference,...
