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Trams will run from Rochdale to Manchester every twelve minutes once the Metrolink is fully in place in 2012. That was the promise of Greater Manchester Passenger Transport...
Date Published 14/01/2009
THE RSPCA is looking for animal-lovers to foster dogs and cats belonging to families fleeing domestic abuse. The society is rolling out its PetRetreat scheme across the North...
Middleton & Heywood MP Jim Dobbin has joined the biggest backbench revolt since Gordon Brown became Prime Minister over plans to part privatise Royal Mail. He is one of 67...
How have shops changed over the last 150 years and what did the high street shop window of the past look like? What would you buy at the post office and what would the local...
Some of Rochdale's bright young pupils are about to get the extra encouragment they need to go on to higher education. The Aimhigher scheme will see some of Rochdale's...
Elderly patients are being forced to sit in their own dirt because the NHS has put a limit on incontinence pads, it has emerged. An outraged family member revealed to Rochdale...
Almost nine out of 10 school buildings in Rochdale contain asbestos. Freedom of information figures show that 68 of Rochdale's 78 schools contain the deadly fibre. Other...
The Rochdale South Neighbourhood Policing Team have begun five days of action to tackle car crime in the Kirkholt area. Police officers and Police Community Support Officers...
Thanks to Rochdale Online readers’ kind sponsors, reporter Kirsty Rigg has raised more than half of her fundraising target for her skydive – in just two days! The journalist...
The rent on council owned houses is set to rise by 6.28% and on top of that council home owners will also have to cope with an average £13.52 increase on heating charges. The...
Police are appealing for information after a teenager was viciously attacked by a group of men on a train. The British Transport Police (BTP) has recorded the incident, which...
Rochdale’s transport boss Councillor Zulf Ali was guest opening speaker this week as Greater Manchester’s Public Transport Executive (GMPTE) held its first Travel Training...
Rochdale Federation of Tenants & Residents Association (RoFTRA) has criticised a council media release on Ofsted's Annual Performance Assessment of the borough's services for...
The Adeleke family are the first people to be rehoused thanks to the new subregional choice based lettings scheme, Pinpoint. Choice-Based lettings schemes operate in the same way...
Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) is making good progress with upgrade works before the Digital TV switchover in Nov 2009, when the existing analogue signals will be switched...
Fashion-conscious footwear fans can do their bit for the environment by opting for trainers made from recycled bus seats and tyres. Bus company First has signed up to the...
Ambulance waiting times for emergency patients in the North-West reached almost 40 minutes last year. One incident in 2007-2008 saw a category-A patient, the most urgent...
Greater Manchester Police put an extra hard squeeze on burglars across the county today (Tuesday 13 January) in a coordinated day of action. Operation Guardian saw the police...
Date Published 13/01/2009
A government programme aimed at getting people into work has failed to spend the money it was granted. Train to Gain received a budget of £520million so it could tackle the...
Rochdale Boroughwide Housing's Chief Executive Gareth Swarbrick has said that none of the RBH employees that are set for a pay rise will see a decrease in actual pay because of a...
Castleton teen Luke Dinsdale is battling backward attitudes and realising his dream of becoming one of Britain’s only male child carers. A recent report revealed that there...
MPs came under fire for their gold-plated pensions today after it emerged that the cost of their retirement had soared by 25%. Figures showed that the amount taxpayers have...
Greater Manchester Police has launched a new rapid response scene of crime forensic service that will help to secure crucial evidence within the first couple of hours of a crime...
A man has been jailed after being found with a collection of guns in Rochdale. Man San Chan 31, of St Dominics Way, Middleton, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm in a...
An elderly man was dragged out of his vehicle in a vicious carjacking in Firgrove. The 73-year-old was waiting at traffic lights in Milnrow Road when he was a approached by a...
Rochdale star Anna Friel is going to appear back on our screens – as a sexy high-heeled hooker. The 32-year-old actress plays a prostitute mother-of-two in a BBC drama called...
A young girl has suffered a fractured skull after being hit by a bus in Rochdale town centre. At approximately 3.00pm yesterday (Monday 12 January) police officers rushed to the...
Armed robbers tied up a father and slashed his son with a sword before stealing £2,000 cash. The terrifying ordeal began when two men, who were also armed with a claw hammer,...
Former Archdeacon of Rochdale Andrew Ballard has announced his retirement as Archdeacon of Manchester. Archdeacon Ballard was a parish priest in Rochdale before he became...
A four week project, due to launch next month, is offering eight young people from within Rochdale the chance to learn some life and work skills while having some fun with...
