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Greater Manchester Police has received almost 5,000 999 calls over Christmas. Of all the 999 calls made between midday Christmas Eve and midday Boxing Day a significant...
Date Published 27/12/2008
Town centre businesses, many struggling with the worst trading for decades, say that the town's traffic wardens are so overzealous they are driving shoppers away. Despite a recent...
Daily Mail journalist Tom Rawstone is very late off the mark with his 'hatchet job' on the Falinge area of Rochdale. Rawstone regurgitates news that Falinge is the "sickest place...
A Rochdale couple have pleaded guilty to charges relating to the possession of £300,000 of counterfeit clothing and money laundering. The pair, of Eastbourne Street, Rochdale,...
A mother-of-three has died after a man threw a glass bottle into a crowded pub in Heywood. A murder investigation has been launched. Shortly before 2am on Saturday 27...
GPs and agencies working in sexual health for young people throughout Greater Manchester have been asked to be aware of the early signs and symptoms of syphilis so that potential...
Date Published 26/12/2008
When the festive season comes to an end, recycle your real Christmas tree. You can take your cut tree to one of a number of recycling sites across the borough from Monday 2 to...
Back Door Music is the latest project in Rochdale to receive money from O2’s It’s Your Community programme. Three local groups performed at the handover of the money:...
Love Christmas presents? Hate rubbish? Don’t despair because help is at hand! As part of Rochdale Borough Council’s Big Clean campaign, residents are being encouraged to make the...
Middleton’s new £13 million sport and entertainment centre in the heart of the town centre has been officially handed over to Link4Life, the Rochdale Boroughwide Cultural Trust,...
A group of young volunteers have completed a three month Groundwork Prince’s Trust Team course in Heywood. The 12 week self-development course, for 16-25 year olds, helped them...
Father Christmas has been to Middleton and worked to a very busy schedule, so busy in fact that he enlisted the help of Middleton Rotary Club. Santa started by greeting...
Funding announced by Housing Minister Iain Wright will develop the services of the Greater Manchester pilot scheme, Pinpoint, which launched in July. Pinpoint offers housing...
Skylight Circus Arts – the North West’s only centre for circus, based in Rochdale - are launching a brand new season of events and training. Anyone inspired by the circus...
Simon Danczuk, Rochdale’s Labour Parliamentary Candidate, made a festive visit to a former local MP after a chance conversation while out canvassing in Wardle. Mr Danczuk met...
Date Published 25/12/2008
A 46-year-old Heywood man has died following a collision with a car in north Manchester. Shortly before 9.10pm on Wednesday 24 December 2008, the man, named as James Patrick...
Two men are in a critical condition in hospital after a stabbing in a restaurant in Middleton. At about 1.30am on Thursday 25 December 2008, the victims were in the Akash...
Two babies have been born at Rochdale Infirmary Maternity Unit this Christmas morning. The first, a girl, to Zobia Jabeen of Rochdale was born prematurely at 12.35am weighing just...
Luke's Gospel 2. 1 Now it happened in those days, that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. 2. 2 This was the first enrolment made...
A teenager was knocked unconscious after a savage assault in Rochdale. The 18-year-old left the Plough Inn on Oldham Road with a group of friends and went into the Kebabish...
Date Published 24/12/2008
The family of a man who died following a road traffic collision in Rochdale at the weekend have paid tribute. John Steven Cain, aged 59, of Thomas Henshaw Court, Rochdale,...
Police have issued an image of a suspected robber who brandished a paint scraper and a knife while stealing cash from a DIY store. At about 3.30pm on Thursday 18 December...
Members of the Rotary Club of Rochdale, helped by volunteers from NSPCC Littleborough District and the CEO and volunteers from Rochdale Connections Trust, were hard at work from...
Five teenagers have appeared in court charged in connection with the rape of a 16-year-old girl in Rochdale. Imtiaz Syed (born 21/04/89) of Ellesmere Street, Freehold,...
Ex-New York gang leader and mafia insider, Louis Ferrante who read his first book in a maximum security prison while serving an 8 ½ year sentence - now out of prison he has...
With flu rates increasing across the region the Health Protection Agency (HPA) North West is advising people on what they can do to protect themselves and others from infection on...
An extraordinary partnership between a North West Euro-MP and Prime Minister Gordon Brown has secured funding worth up to £8 billion to support the development of carbon capture...
Rochdale families are set to save £63 each year thanks to new rules that will force manufacturers to improve the efficiency of televisions and home electronic devices. The...
Date Published 23/12/2008
Rochdale Borough Council has been praised by Ofsted in their annual performance assessment of children’s services departments nationwide. The authority was judged to be ‘good’ and...
The Joint Administrators to Woolworths Plc have confirmed that the 807 Woolworths stores will close by 5 January 2009, unless a buyer for the business can be found. Negotiations...
