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Rochdale residents are being encouraged to get fit and help local disadvantaged families at the same time. New customers to Link4Life fitness centres across the borough can...
Date Published 19/03/2009
The streets of Rochdale are set to benefit from a multi-million pound upgrade of street lighting. Rochdale Council and project managers at the Impact Partnership have selected...
Latest figures show that in 2006/07 there were 40 deaths in Rochdale as a direct result of fuel poverty. Further statistics, released by energy watchdog ‘Customer Focus’, also...
The North West region is to receive £3.6million to help communities in managing local pressures from migration. It is hoped that the money will be used to manage pressures on...
Heywood & Middleton MP Jim Dobbin has supported a campaign to ensure fair water charges for local Scout Groups and other voluntary organisations. Water regulator Ofwat has...
Councillors, tenants and residents have been invited to meet a six metre tall alien on Wednesday (25 March). The close encounter will be the highlight of a special tour of...
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen will give a half hour speech on the threat of asbestos in Commons next week. The MP, with the backing of many colleagues, is hoping to pressure the...
A bogus official was foiled when his intended 92-year-old victim asked him for identification. A man knocked on the window of the pensioner's Sheriff Street home at around...
Rochdale Council is reminding dog owners in the borough to bag it and bin it or face a £50 fine if they fail to do so. Over the last 12 months the council has received 350...
Membership of a popular children’s activity club ion Heywood is still growing a year after it was formed. More and more children are joining in the fun at the Young Explorers’...
A security guard was hit on the head with a brick by robbers as he delivered cash in Middleton. At about 6am this morning (Thursday 19 March), the guard was delivering cash to...
Yellow school buses are cutting anti-social behaviour and saving parents from rush-hour traffic, according to Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority. Incidents of...
North West Euro-MP Chris Davies wants to keep some of Britain’s dirtiest power stations working rather than build new coal-fired plants. The Liberal Democrat says living with...
A group of wannabe drug dealers who used one of their parents’ houses in Milnrow to secretly process £3,000 worth of cocaine have been locked up for a total of more than seven...
The number of people claiming out of work benefits in Rochdale increased by more than one person every hour in the last month as 840 new claimants sought help. The area’s...
Sports car manufacturer Al Melling is hoping to boost sales of his Wildcat by hosting a raffle for one of the V8 cars for just £20 a ticket. The entrepreneur is using the...
League officials are considering the registration of a new Bamford Fieldhouse player after he assaulted an off-duty police officer during an awards dinner. Former Crompton...
Hundreds of people have come together to enjoy a fun-filled day of activities, demonstrations and exercise at a Community Fun Day in Rochdale this week. The event was held by...
The murder of Lesley Molseed in the early 1970s has been back in the news this week as the use of DNA evidence casts doubt over other murders that happened decades ago. In 1975...
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale are hoping to improve the health of people in the borough by encouraging them to put less salt on their chips. Health officials have been...
Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin joined with top researchers from a London hospital to find out more about sight saving tests for glaucoma, a cause of blindness.
An astonishing £33,000 was raised during a charity fundraising dinner to help the victims in Gaza. Organised by Islamic Relief and Rochdale-based Deen For All and was held at...
Fire-fighters ditched their hosepipes for clipboards as they took to the streets and knocked on almost 300 doors as part of a “Day of Action”.
Rochdale’s MP and Lib Dem Shadow Minister for Works and Pensions Paul Rowen has called on the Government to reveal what steps they have taken to ensure that residents who choose...
Date Published 18/03/2009
Some ‘poorly’ children may no longer be entitled to summer holidays in foreign countries. The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has recently decided to prohibit children...
Faith, community and business leaders have gathered in Manchester to show a united front against the British National Party (BNP). The Manchester Diocese of the Church of England...
More than a fifth of primary school pupils in Rochdale don't speak English as a first language. Shadow immigration minister Damian Green has described the number of pupils...
Transport bosses are on board with a new scheme to help stop people with learning disabilities being bullied on public transport. Greater Manchester Integrated Transport...
Immigration minister Phil Woolas last night told a powerful Commons committee he wanted his Milnrow and Newhey constituents to get the first pick when it came to local jobs....
Faith, community and business leaders from Greater Manchester signed a giant anti-BNP European election pledge card in the nave of Manchester Cathedral this morning. Clergy...
