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A former boxer was told he was fighting out of his league after being exposed as the secret mastermind of an £11 million bootleg gang which smuggled 72 million counterfeit...
Date Published 24/02/2009
A tenacious campaigner for the victims of asbestos diseases who was a pioneer in revealing the cover-up of asbestos cancer by Turner & Newall, has died aged 89. As a Churchill...
Council tax in Rochdale is set to increase by 3.7% - which is the lowest increase for over a decade. This is a smaller increase than last year 3.8%, and Rochdale Borough Council...
Rochdale Council are hoping to secure funding for a PFI new build at Hollingworth Business and Enterprise College but Partnership for Schools, the government body responsible for...
Young people in Rochdale are being encouraged to make more of their weekend nights by coming along to a new evening of action packed activities. Rochdale Council and Rochdale...
Ofsted has praised Middleton Technology school as one of 12 secondaries in the country that are performing best in deprived areas. An Ofsted report highlights that the school's...
Arsonists torched a popular car wash in the early hours of this morning (Tuesday 24 February). Crystal Clear, on Manchester Road, Castleton, is currently being demolished after...
Final preparations are underway for Live Life, the big healthy living exhibition being staged at the Middleton Arena on Monday (2 March.) Admission to Live Life is free and...
Date Published 23/02/2009
A born and bred Rochdale youngster realised his sporting dream today when he signed a professional football contract with his hometown club. 18-year old defender Craig Dawson...
Actress Samia Smith will be in Heywood on Saturday to officially open the town’s new-look library. The 26 year old television favourite, best known for playing ‘Maria’ in ITV...
Car boot sales are back on the Town Hall Square starting in April. Rochdale Town Centre Management are encouraging people to get rid of their old stuff and earn some extra...
Police in Rochdale are cracking down on crime and disorderly behaviour in hot spot areas. Operation Neutron has been launched by the Pennine Neighbourhood Policing Team to...
A 'Recycle Roadshow' will be taking place at the Rochdale Exchange shopping centre on Saturday (28 February) between 10am and 4pm. Shoppers will get an insight as to how the...
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen has criticised the fact that trams that will run to Rochdale are not being built in this country after visiting the factory in Vienna where the new trams...
A teenage boy who went missing from home following a police warrant has been found safe and well. Daniel Sharples disappeared from his Smallbridge home on Wednesday 4 February...
The annual pantomime of the friends of St Gabriel’s, Castleton, was up to the high standard of previous years; a remarkable feat because building work at the School on Vicarage...
Almost 1,500 criminals across Greater Manchester were added to the national DNA database in the first three weeks of January, new figures have revealed. According to...
Second helpings were the order of the day when a leading councillor tried out the borough's healthy range of school meals earlier today. Cabinet member Councillor Keith Swift...
Balderstone ICT Learning Centre is hosting a Feeling fine online Open Day this Wednesday, which aims to get more local women to use the internet. 73% of women in the North West...
Paul Rowen MP got a shock when he appeared on the Politics Show yesterday, when a technical slip-up broadcasted him to the nation as Labour MP. The Liberal Democrat politician...
“Faith can move mountains, but it’s more effective if each of us pick up a spade”. Those were the words of Margaret Geoghegan, founder of Springhill Hospice, as she was honoured...
Greater Manchester Police’s Rochdale division is promoting its five Neighbourhood Policing Teams who work across the borough. Rochdale North and South, the Pennine’s, Heywood...
The race is on for local amateur photographers to enter their pictures for the 2010 Springhill Hospice Rochdale Calendar. The calendar will include thirteen colour photographs...
A man arrested after a 15-year-old girl was raped in Rochdale has been bailed until Monday 27 April pending further inquiries. Between 1am and 2am yesterday morning (Sunday 22...
Two Rochdale taxi drivers, who refused to carry a registered guide dog, have had their licences suspended for two weeks by Rochdale Council. Mr Talib Hussein and Mr Mohammed...
A second man has been charged after a car was shot at in Heywood last month. James Clarke, 28, of no fixed abode, has been charged with attempted murder, possession of a...
Rochdale Borough Council is to take part in a pilot scheme aimed at creating a more efficient and transparent system of information sharing across health, social care and...
Date Published 22/02/2009
A 15-year-old girl was raped when walking through woods between Wardle Road and Ashbrook Hey, known locally as The Brew, between 1.00am and 2.00am this morning (Sunday 22...
Greater Manchester Police has appointed a new Deputy Chief Constable. Simon Byrne, currently an Assistant Chief Constable at Merseyside Police, was selected from a field of six...
Whistleblowing Euro-MP Chris Davies claims that he may have lost out on more than £2 million over 10 years by refusing to bend parliamentary rules for claiming expenses. Mr...
