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Heybrook Primary School is one of ten schools across the country where not a single pupil speaks English as a first language, it has been revealed. Local councillors have...
Date Published 28/01/2009
Last Orders has been evacuated after a suspicious petrol smell caused panic among customers. Fire fighters rushed to the Drake Street pub at 3.30pm today (Wednesday 28...
Residents across the borough have set a new record for the number of real Christmas trees recycled by Rochdale Borough Council. The authority collected 3,513 real trees this...
Jim Dobbin MP has called on the Secretary of State to consider people who are addicted to prescription drugs when pursuing the Welfare Reform Bill. The Labour MP quizzed James...
Rochdale Borough Council is offering up to a £71,000 for a new senior executive. The post, which requires a senior person to take on democratic services, is to replace borough...
A local 'community hero' has been praised at Downing Street. Police Constable Michael Dermody was taken to a Downing Street reception to celebrate people who are making a...
Residents in Langley have given their landlord a seal of approval for the way the mass tenant relocation was carried out to the £5.2million Millbeck Gardens development. Over...
A car which was stolen from the Middleton area on Tuesday 20 January may have been used as a getaway car during a terrifying knifepoint robbery in Stretford. It is believed the...
The Bishop of Middleton is to reveal an anti rain tax poster at the launch of DontDrainUs.org, a campaign which is working to permanently end the rain tax recently imposed on...
Rochdale Hornets supporters have launched a bid to save their financially crippled club. Working alongside London-based author, economist and lifelong Hornets fan Paul Ormerod,...
The Citizens Advice Bureau has revelaed that they are now dealing with 325 cases of mortgage arrears every working day and offers advice on how people facing repossession should...
After 42 years in Greater Manchester’s Fire and Rescue service, including seven years as Chief, County Fire Officer Barry Dixon CBE has announced that he will retire in...
Rochdale Councillors will lobby the government over its Council house rent restructuring method. The Government plans to bring Council rents in line with rents in the...
Date Published 27/01/2009
The opening of a new foundation school, which will replace Balderstone Technology College and Springhill High School, has been brought forward by three years. The new school,...
A 21-year old man from Middleton has pleaded guilty to section 47 assault and perverting the course of justice after he punched a 16-year old boy who had witnessed a murder. On...
A Rochdale company has paid out £3000 after an employee was electrocuted by a buried live wire. The worker was operating a mechanical breaker for Trains (Rochdale) Ltd, of...
The future of the £25M new Sixth Form College is looking bleak after it emerged the “financial climate” has put plans on hold. It was revealed in The Times yesterday that at...
The friends of Broadfield Park are appealing for help to restore a piece of forgotten history. The group are bidding for lottery funding to bring an old drinking fountain back...
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen and Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin have joined more than 120 of their colleagues criticising the BBC and Sky for not broadcasting a plea for aid...
A taxi driver has been forced off the road after arsonists set torched his car. The driver, from Milnrow Cars, was picking up a passenger on the Cray estate at midnight on...
A service that offers information, support and counselling to victims of rape and sexual abuse has received a £373,000 funding boost. Manchester Rape Crisis will use the money...
A rail firm which operates across Greater Manchester cancelled more services last year than any other train company, new figures have revealed. Figures released by the Liberal...
Three short-listed consortiums have returned bids for the council's Building Schools for the Future project. The scheme will see a £200million transformation of Rochdale's...
Rochdale is one of the more affordable places to live in the country. Latest figures from the GMB union show that the average price of a home in Rochdale, at £118,774, is 4.6...
Greater Manchester Police Authority has joined forces with colleagues in Cheshire, Lancashire and Merseyside to recruit independent members of the public to deal with allegations...
At the Communities and Local Government Select Committee last week it was disclosed that the Local Authorities are sitting on £38 billion of reserves. This probably confirms my...
The Rotary Club of Rochdale have presented cheques for £1,000 each to the Littleborough District of the NSPCC and Rochdale Connections Trust. All of the funds will be used to...
A car was shot at in Heywood during the early hours of Sunday morning (25 January). Four men were driving along Bury New Road towards Heywood in a silver Volkswagen Golf when...
Police were called to the Town Hall as last night's Council Cabinet meeting was plunged into chaos. There was standing room only in the committee rooms where the meeting was...
Touchstones Rochdale was graced with an unusual and breathtaking musical experience as The Local and CMN Tours came to town. These three musicians are of unmistakable talent...
