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An ex-convict, who has spent six of the last ten years in prison, turned his life around to win a North West employment award. Mark Bland, now in his mid twenties and working...
Date Published 22/04/2009
The number of cases of MRSA has been reduced at Rochdale Infirmary. Patients developing an MRSA bloodstream infection at the Infirmary have been reduced by 60% this year and...
Date Published 21/04/2009
Final preparations are underway at the Middleton Arena for the star-studded public launch being held this Saturday (25 April). Olympic great Sir Steve Redgrave CBE will join...
Police are warning Castleton residents to be on the lookout after an elderly woman paid £260 to cold callers to do some work on her house. Two male traders called at her home...
Homes and businesses in Castleton were without power following a power-cut shortly before 2pm this afternoon (Tuesday 21 April). According to electricity providers nPower, the...
A soap actor who lives in Heywood has been sacked after he pleaded guilty to fracturing the jaw of a 16-year old during a fight in Rochdale. Luke Tittensor, 19, has been fired...
He refused to spill the beans when he stopped for a chat with Rochdale Online News. But our home-grown Apprentice candidate, Noorul Choudhury, will once again be showing us...
Members of St Aidan’s Church in Sudden are celebrating the success of the first stage of their ‘Raise the Roof’ project with the confirmation that additional funding needed from...
A family has spoken of the moment they escaped a devastating house fire in Norden. Panicked neighbours banged on the door of a house on Bagslate Moor Road yesterday afternoon...
Knives, needles, drugs, and screwdrivers. These are just some of the items confiscated at Rochdale Magistrates Court in the past six months. Figures obtained by Rochdale Online...
Staff at a Middleton hotel were threatened with a sledgehammer during a terrifying robbery on Friday night (17 April). Three masked robbers burst into the Premier Travel Inn...
Over 90% of patients would recommend to a friend the new mobile clinical units that are operating in Rochdale as part of Greater Manchester CATS (Clinical Assessment and Treatment...
The Middleton Township Committee are inviting residents to the Middleton Arena on Monday 27 April to put forward their views on what should be included in the Township Plan, which...
Gardeners have moved in on the Langley estate to give spruce up the area and keep gardens in tip-top shape. Riverside Pennine (formerly Bowlee park housing association)...
Date Published 20/04/2009
More than a fifth of homes that are put up for sale in Rochdale are still on the market one year later. Rochdale's housing market stagnation is one of the worst in the country,...
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, who works as an outside trainer...
A man who abused his position of trust as a First Aid volunteer to meet young girls has today, Monday 20 April 2009, been jailed. Michael Booth (born 03/01/87) of Waterside...
Residents in Belfield and Waithlands are having their property marked with SmartWater to protect their possessions from burglars. SmartWater is a unique spray being used to...
Rochdale residents are being asked to nominate their community heroes so that they can be given the royal treatment. Crown Carvery pub and restaurant, the Sandbrook, on...
A national malnutrition scandal which revealed 240 hospital patients starve to death every year, does not involve Rochdale, according to health bosses. The shocking statistic...
Ahead of this week’s budget announcement, Rochdale MP Paul Rowen has called on the government to do more to protect jobs in manufacturing. Mr Rowen, who is the Liberal...
‘Catching it early could save your life’ is the message of a new cancer campaign launched by NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, Rochdale Council and cancer supporters at the...
Former Oldham council leader David Jones failed to reopen the debate into a massive bus fare increase as teenagers took their protest to the top. Youngsters arranged to...
The man who helped lead Rochdale into the congestion charge referendum is quitting just four months after the resounding no vote. David Leather, interim chief executive of...
The Easter break is coming to an end. Whenever constituents see me in the constituency they naturally think I am on holiday. This is the impression that the tabloid press has...
Environmental campaigners have congratulated Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin MP and Rochdale MP Paul Rowen after they signed a parliamentary motion that hopes to tackle...
A seven-year old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after his mini-motorbike veered into the path of a car on Sandy Lane on Saturday morning (18 April). The young...
Miles of moorland above Littleborough were destroyed during weekend fires. On Friday afternoon (17 April) there was a large blaze on moorland at Blackstone Edge and then on...
A postman suffered serious head injuries when he tried to prevent his van from being stolen on Saturday morning (18 April). The postman had been making a delivery on Milnrow...
Date Published 19/04/2009
The landlord of the Spring Mill Tavern has suffered a potentially life-threatening head injury after an incident at the pub on Halifax Road. The 39-year old landlord was found...
