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As Easter time approaches, many Christians are celebrating Holy Week. A meeting is taking place tonight at Saint Clement Church, to celebrate the time Jesus was resurrected.
Date Published 06/04/2009
Bamford residents have been asked to cast their vote on proposed measures to stop illegal rat-running the wrong way up Half Acre Lane, from Roch Valley Way to Half Acre...
Piles of dumped waste has caused outrage among local residents after children were seen using it to play on. Elizabeth Wood, of Sparthbottoms Road, has complained to Rochdale...
Local film company Glasseye Productions are currently in the final stages of producing two short films that will be shown in Rochdale later this month. The first is working...
Families, councillors and residents across Heywood turned out to vote for community safety projects they wanted to receive funding. The results mean that Heywood is set to...
Members of Alkrington Community Centre were given a keep fit class with a difference. The group of 40 were being shown exercising routines by their local Police Community...
Rochdale Borough Council has announced the appointment of Pam Smith as their new Executive Director for Transformation. Pam previously worked as the council’s Head of...
Children and young people across the borough will soon be able to enjoy new play sites that have been developed as part of the ‘Play Pathfinder’ scheme. Construction work is...
Norden's former library has been purchased by Norden Community Trust and will once again be used by the local community. In 2007 when Rochdale Council re-located Norden’s...
There are fewer burglaries happening nowadays compared to five years ago but the council and the police say that it remains a problem that needs to be addressed. Peter Egan,...
Blue recycling bins have been wheeled out across the borough for residents that can not fit all of their recycling into the blue bags. Peter Cunningham, head of Rochdale...
The future Rochdale Feel Good Festival will be discussed at Rochdale Town Hall tonight. The annual event is facing possible cancellation after councillor’s condemned admission...
As part of their 20th Anniversary celebrations, Springhill Hospice are holding special one-off events throughout the year. The first of these will be Rochdale’s very first...
Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin has signed a parliamentary motion to relieve pub landlords who are tied into expensive contracts with brewers.
People living in the most deprived areas of England are more likely to die after heart surgery than those in richer areas, according to a study published in the British Medical...
Pensioners in Rochdale will benefit from a 5% rise in their state pension from today. The change, from £90.70 to £95.25, is the biggest percentage increase since 2001,...
Troubled teens are being sent on “surviving your parents” courses, funded by Rochdale Borough Council. Young people and parents from Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale have signed...
Greater Manchester Police is rolling out a new customer-focused appointment system across the force. It is hoped the new system will make it easier for people to report...
The family of Emma O'Kane, the barmaid who was killed when a glass bottle struck her throat on Boxing Day, has raised £3000 for the three young children she left behind. The...
Date Published 05/04/2009
Manchester tram stations will be shut tomorrow (Monday) as major upgrade work gets underway. Shudehill, Market Street, Piccadilly Gardens and Moseley Street stations will be...
A man was mugged while relieving himself in a bush in Spotland. The 21-year-old man stopped behind some greenery on Longfield Road, last Thursday evening when he was attacked...
Date Published 04/04/2009
The friends and family of the barmaid who was killed in a Heywood bar will tonight join for a special fundraising night in her memory. Emma O’Kane died after being struck with...
A charity is appealing for reading helpers to work in Rochdale primary schools. Volunteer Reading Help is appealing for people to give support to youngsters across the borough...
The future of Hopwood Hall College’s redevelopment plans are uncertain according to a report into the collapse of the Government’s multi-billion-pound college building...
Date Published 03/04/2009
The controversial move of maternity, new born baby and children’s services away from Rochdale Infirmary will not take place until the winter of 2011/2012. As part of the...
Longfield Road in Spotland is the latest site to receive the Big Clean treatment from Rochdale Council after members of the Spotland Tenants and Residents Association nominated...
Firefighters broke into a woman’s home after she accidentally locked her twin babies inside. Crews attended Friars Crescent, Kirkholt on Monday evening after the woman locked...
A rapist from Rochdale is has begun a decade-long jail sentence for subjecting girls to frightening sex acts. John Podmore, 64, from Kirkholt has been charged with three...
If you want to make sure you buy chocolate eggs that provide the best value for money this Easter, ask pupils at St Andrews Primary School. Pupils at the school know eggsactly...
Springfield Park will come under the spotlight on Saturday 18 April as local residents and young people have the opportunity to have their say on the vision for Springfield Park...
