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Rochdale Borough Council has threatened tougher action on fly-tipping after cleaning up piles of waste from Heights Lane. Overflowing bins and bags of rubbish have built up on...
Date Published 06/05/2009
Diploma students in Rochdale will be able to choose from around 80% of undergraduate university courses across the country, according to data released today (Wednesday 6 May) by...
A bright young swimming hopeful from Rochdale is set to make a splash at the 2012 London Olympics. Catherine Marcroft from Balderstone has received £1000 from Rochdale...
Three quarters of teachers are not confident about what to do if a child in their class has a potentially life-threatening asthma attack. Figures from Asthma UK show 50% of...
Work has started on site for Rochdale’s new state-of-the-art sixth form college. Main contractors, Bardsley Construction, began preparation work on site this week, turning the...
North West Euro-MP Chis Davies has called for the country’s political parties to work together to develop new “clean coal” technology. Mr Davies told a major conference of...
A gleaming church is literally rising from the ashes after a disastrous arson attack almost 18 months ago. A raging fireball swept through St Thomas’s in Newhey four days...
Plans to create a Whitehall for the North West have been unveiled in Manchester. The proposals to build a new civil service campus alongside Piccadilly Station were unveiled...
Greater Manchester had the largest number of fraud cases in local elections last year, the Electoral Commission (EC) has revealed. The area had 12 malpractice cases. South...
A transport boss is launching an investigation into a letter asking post offices to pay £120 a year to distribute bus timetables. The letter, from Greater Manchester Public...
A new telephone hotline to start a Europe-wide alert for cases of missing children like Madeleine McCann has been instigated by local Euro-MP Arlene McCarthy. Her proposal to...
Identity cards are not invasive and will help cut crime in the borough of Rochdale, a local MP has claimed. Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin welcomes a Government pilot...
A landlady has been found dead inside her pub in Heywood. The body of Bernadette Bridge, known to customers as “Bernie”, was found early on Saturday morning (2 May) in the...
Date Published 05/05/2009
Residents from Brimrod, Marland and Sudden can have their say at the Area Forum next week. Police officers, councillors and members of the public will meet to discuss arising...
All Middleton children’s centres have joined together for Family Week for a picnic event in Heaton Park. The event will take place on the 29th May at 12.30 – 3pm and will...
The Government has announced that £227,730 of grant money is to be made available to charities in Rochdale as part of a new recession support initiative.
Rochdale Euro-MPs today voted to save baby seals in Canada. The cross-party supported measures are intended to halt the purchase of skins from seal pups.
Terrified supermarket staff were “frogmarched” into a room by thieves and forced to hand over large amounts of cash in a frightening bank holiday attack.
Staff from one of Rochdale’s largest law firms have decided to leave the office and get their running shoes on for charity. Seven keen employees from Molesworths Bright Clegg...
Have you ever wondered how police dogs get to be so highly trained? Rochdale Online has teamed up with one of Rochdale's best known dog trainers and will follow the journey...
Following a complaint to Rochdale Council about the Mayor being 'snubbed' on St George's Day, Lib Dem councillor Jean Ashworth claimed on the Rochdale Online message board there...
Date Published 04/05/2009
Following concerns raised about the future of the of the 'Meals on wheels' service, the Council's social services chief Councillor Dale Mulgrew is seeking to allay fears by...
The Baum has been awarded a CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) award for Pub of the Year 2009, for the Rochdale, Oldham and Bury division. The award was presented to Simon...
Former Manchester United and England football star Bryan Robson took to the field at Spotland Stadium to lead a Co-operative ‘elite’ team against a team of stars from stage and...
Members of Parliament are under the spotlight on expenses’ claims and this will continue until the publication of receipts in July. Most MPs make claims within the present rules....
Date Published 03/05/2009
Concerns are increasing for a woman missing from home in Rochdale. Tina Dunning, aged 46, was last seen around 11pm at her home on Hartley Street, Firgrove. She is...
A man was bundled into the back of his own car during a kidnapping incident last month. Shortly after 12.20am on Friday 24 April, police were called to a house on Greenview...
Date Published 02/05/2009
The big news this week in Parliament has been the historic victory for the Gurkhas in a vote which the government lost by 21 votes on a Liberal Democrat motion. It was, as Nick...
Police are releasing CCTV images of youths trespassing on a private railway station in Heywood. The stills are the latest captured at East Lancashire Railway between 29 March...
Thieves knocked a man to the ground and stole his coat while he was unconscious. At 11.10pm on Thursday 9 April, the 35-year-old victim was walking along Heywood Road,...
