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Rochdale Council’s ground-breaking scheme to have every gully in the town cleaned within the year is right on track. At the last night's Rochdale Council meeting (Wednesday...
Date Published 24/07/2008
A Middleton Councillor has called on Rochdale's representative on the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority to provide free buses from Middleton Bus Station to Mills...
Rochdale Football Club will be given the freedom of the borough at a ceremony later this year after the motion was put forward at a special meeting of Rochdale Council last night...
Rochdale Council is the first Council in Britain to confirm their opposition to the UK Planning Bill in a Notice of Motion that was put forward at last night’s Rochdale Council...
Greater Manchester Police latest ‘don’t drink and drive’ campaign has reduced drink driving by almost 50 per cent when compared to figures from the previous year. In June...
Rochdale Labour Party's opposition to congestion charging for Greater Manchester took a serious hit at last night's full council meeting at Rochdale Town Hall (Wednesday 24 July)....
Manchester United's youth coaches have been in Middleton this week to help a group of youngsters turn their lives around by taking part in a Sports development course. The...
The Walk in Centre and Dental Access Centre on Whitehall Street will be closed tomorrow (Friday 25 July) between 7am and 1pm to allow essential maintenance to be carried out....
Rochdale MP and Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Minister Paul Rowen has claimed that the Welfare Green Paper released earlier this week ignores the needs of many people...
Greater Manchester Police Authority appointed a new Chief Constable to the Greater Manchester Police Force yesterday evening (Wednesday 23 July). Peter Fahy, from Cheshire...
Greater Manchester’s burglary fraternity will today (Thursday 24 July) be targeted by police in a hard-hitting day of action. Operation Storm, which has this week seen dedicated...
As plans for Rochdale’s new Transport Interchange take shape, the River Roch will play more of a starring role in plans to transform the area. The river has long been hidden away...
Date Published 23/07/2008
A Middleton shop has been told to stop selling alcohol until it meets extra licence obligations after booze was sold to young people under 18. The new obligations were imposed on...
The Liberal Democrat Groups in Rochdale, Oldham, Manchester and Salford have all agreed to support a binding Greater Manchester wide referendum to be held on the TIF Bid and...
At last its official! After months of denying it, Chancellor Alistair Darling MP last week admitted that we were in recession. In doing so he was at last acknowledging what the...
The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities meets on Friday 25 July and will discuss proposals for a Greater Manchester-wide referendum on the proposed congestion charge....
Rochdale Pensioners Association is celebrating after being the first organisation to receive a new award. At a ceremony at Manchester Town Hall the Lord Lieutenant of Manchester...
Young families are invited to have ‘Fun in the Park’ on Thursday 7 August, when a host of summer activities will be held in Balderstone Park, Rochdale and at the nearby library....
Simon Danczuk, Rochdale’s Labour Parliamentary Candidate, has launched his campaign website so that people can learn more about what he stands for and what he thinks are the key...
29-year old Stephen Maher, of Harwood Gardens, Heywood, was given a 12 community order with supervision, together with 60 hours unpaid work that he must carry out. The defendant...
On Friday 18 July 2008, detectives in Rochdale arrested a man on suspicion of grooming a child. The 25-year-old man, a teacher at Holy Family School in Heywood, was interviewed...
Four fire crews attended a blaze at a recycling centre in Heywood during the early hours of this morning (Wednesday 23 July). Firemen arrived to find 500 tonnes of recycling...
Rochdale has moved in a place in the Greater Manchester television license dodgers league since figures were last collected in January this year. In the first half of 2008, 520...
Date Published 22/07/2008
The nationwide problems with this year's Sats tests have been reflected in Rochdale's primary schools. Although most schools now have a full complement of results, many arrived...
A robber made off with a substantial amount of cash following a post office robbery in which told a member of staff that he was armed with a gun. The robber was with two...
Thousands of patient records have been stolen while they were in storage at an unknown location in the Rochdale area. The data, belonging to 3,500 patients from Trinity...
Phil Woolas MP, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister has thrown his weight behind Rochdale’s Post Office rescue package. He advised Lib Dem councillors in his Oldham...
Rochdale is set to be a test bed for a radical new scheme to get people on incapacity benefit back to work — with private companies being paid by results. Greater Manchester...
The site of the former Queensway Primary School on Hartley Lane, Kirkholt has been cleared of fly tipping and made secure with new fencing in preparation for the development of...
Police are becoming increasingly concerned for a 13-year-old boy who has been missing from home. Daniel Whitehead was last seen at his home on Walsingham Avenue, Middleton,...
