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Rochdale resident Barbara Thompson has recently given up smoking with the help of NHS Heywood Middleton and Rochdale's Stop Smoking Services. Like many quitters, Ms Thompson...
Date Published 17/04/2009
Help is at hand for new parents and their babies at the Alkrington Children’s Centre. Starting on Monday (20 April) at Alkrington Primary School, 'Early Daze' will run each...
Link4Life’s Arts and Heritage service are ‘opening up shop’ on Saturday 25 April with a chance to see inside the Resource Centre. The Centre houses thousands of historic items...
A couple of weeks after their uncle had read a story to them for Eid, three sisters from Rochdale were visited by the author. Harisah (13), Armani (12) and Alina Khaliq (11)...
Almost one in every five people in Rochdale will be aged 65 or over by 2021 and older people in the town can expect to live shorter and less healthy lives than older people across...
The selection exercise to find a developer for a £200 million rejuvenation of Rochdale town centre has begun. The town centre redevelopment will deliver a new retail heart...
Rochdale residents are urged to be on their guard against cowboy contractors as the country moves towards the digital switchover. Rogue traders will charge exorbitant fees for...
Teachers are still being exposed to asbestos with deaths from the deadly substance set to rise if more is not done, the country’s biggest teachers’ union has warned. The...
Plans are in place to clamp down on the use of surveillance powers for trivial reasons by local authorities. The spying powers allow authorities to use surveillance and...
Ever wanted to get your own back on your boss? Children's charity MedEquip4Kids has the ideal opportunity with a brand new fundraising event, Toss the Boss.
Rochdale Council has forced a local trader to make a legal promise to stop trading illegally and make refunds where requested by customers. Simple Solar, operating from...
Date Published 16/04/2009
The Chicago Teddy Bears Society Jazz Band have been in absentia for a few years now, but this seven piece ensemble, with all the band now fighting fit, made a welcome return to...
A man with Asperger Syndrome was left with a fractured arm after a vicious and unprovoked assault in Rochdale. The attack happened outside the Wellfield Surgery at the...
Employees at BAE Systems’ Chadderton site collected Easter eggs for the benefit of five organisations, including The Rochdale Children's Moorland Home. Staff were asked to...
Rochdale residents are being asked to nominate a new development that has caught their eye for a Rochdale Borough Design Award. Rochdale Council is asking people to let them...
A suspected chemical spillage has coated a river in Middleton in a blanket of foam. Soap suds measuring around 150ft long by about 10ft deep were seen on the River Irk this...
More pubs could close if Alistair Darling announces an above-inflation beer tax increase in his budget next week, fears Rochdale MP Paul Rowen. Mr Rowen claims that six pubs...
Contractors have moved in to demolish three blocks of flats on Queens Drive in Kirkholt to create a site for new homes. The Vision for Kirkholt project, which brings together...
Actual trials from the Victorian era will be re-enacted in Rochdale Town Hall’s original Magistrates Courtroom on Sunday (19 April) and you are invited to be part of the audience...
One in six NHS trusts has seen spending on obesity rise more than seven-fold in three years. High demand for stomach surgery for grossly overweight patients as well as...
A new doctors surgery is to be built on a supermarket car park. Rochdale Borough Council’s Panning Sub-Committee approved the move, which will bring what is said to be a much...
Date Published 15/04/2009
Another security guard has been attacked by armed robbers who stole a substantial amount of cash. The latest attack happened at Tesco Express, Norden Road, early on Wednesday...
Offenders on Community Payback schemes are cleaning up the borough, one grot spot at a time.
The treasurer of Castleton Carnival is appealing for help to keep Castleton Carnival alive, after watching the event get “smaller every year”. Frank Cryer hopes local people...
Masked thugs made ‘war cries’ as they attacked a Co-op shop in a failed robbery attempt.
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen has condemned Government guidelines that suggest jobseekers should have to travel long distances to find work. It comes after Tony McNulty MP, Minister...
A last minute change of career has paid dividends for an apprentice from Middleton after she was chosen from nearly 100 applicants to join Rochdale Borough Council’s...
Rochdale’s Balderstone and Kirkholt Councillor, Dale Mulgrew, has been appointed to the board of the Heritage Trust for the North West. The Trust seeks to find new appropriate...
Rochdale Borough Council has written to approximately 250 residents of Heywood to inform them that the former Boo Hole landfill site has been designated as contaminated land in...
Police in Rochdale are urging residents to keep their vehicles more secure and to help them reduce car crime in the area. Amazingly, criminals get into a quarter of vehicles...
