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Rochdale Council has been externally assessed as having reached level four of the equality standard for local government. Only 14% of all metropolitan authorities in England have...
Date Published 01/07/2008
Police in Rochdale are joining forces with Crescent Radio to launch a new show. It will be broadcast on the first Thursday of each month from 3pm, starting this week (3...
A concert held to raise money for a Newhey church that was gutted by fire last year raised more than £1,000. The fire devastated St Thomas's Church just before Christmas last...
Pupils from Springhill High School will work together with a number of pupils from Falinge Park High School and other young people from across Rochdale to take control of the...
An initiative to reduce anti-social behaviour and underage drinking in Castleton has been hailed a success so far. Since Operation Buchan began on 17 March, police have...
At the inquest into his death, the family of a Rochdale man who was serving a life sentence at a Bristol prison said officers should have been aware of his "troubled" state of...
One of the UK’s most senior nurses and a former Patients’ Champion for A&E services has been appointed as the new Programme Director for the Healthy Futures Reconfiguration...
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen is supporting the National Deaf Children’s Society’s (NDCS) campaign to close the attainment gap that exists between deaf and hearing children. Mr Rowen...
Thirty-three pollutants likely to be found in rivers, lakes and coastal waters must be reduced or phased out completely, MEPs have said. The step has been taken to ensure the...
The catering team at Rochdale Infirmary is putting on the Ritz to help mark the 60th anniversary of the NHS and they are also taking a trip back in time to 1948. Meanwhile,...
Rochdale Council is on the look out for examples of 5 star service from its employees for the Customer Service Awards 2008. Residents from across the town who have...
Rochdale Council’s Street Services teams in the four townships, Heywood, Middleton, Pennines and Rochdale, are digging deep once again as they compete for the honour of winning...
Rochdale's Town Centre and Railway Station are set to be connected by a free, regular shuttle bus, similar to the scheme in Manchester. The news comes after last week Labour...
Children and young people across Rochdale can have their say about the environment later this year by being part of The Big Listen. It is the biggest opportunity of the year...
The world has just celebrated the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela, Rochdale has celebrated the 80th birthday of Sir Cyril and the NHS celebrates its 60th this Saturday....
Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group have stepped-up their campaign for the government to start spending money on social care not nuclear weapons. They took their peace...
Operation Hydrofoil, a force-wide day of action targeting violent crime by Greater Manchester Police and its partners resulted in 153 arrests being made last Friday (27 June)....
The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) has appointed fourteen business leaders from across Greater Manchester to the new Business Leadership Council. These...
A packed Rochdale Town Hall was the scene for the 80th birthday party of Rochdale's political legend and larger than life character, Sir Cyril Smith. It was the biggest...
Date Published 29/06/2008
Latest figures show that 77 per cent of 16-18 year olds are in education, employment or training in Rochdale and although this figure is an improvement on figures from recent...
Date Published 27/06/2008
After news broke last week that Rochdale Council has appointed a new Transformation Programme Director, staff at the council's communcations team have written a feature in which...
A decision on whether or not the people of Greater Manchester will get a referendum on congestion charging has been put back by a month. Officials from the Association of...
Residents are being urged to let Rochdale Council know if they are still claiming council tax discounts that they are no longer entitled to. Around 32,000 households are...
A 28-year-old man has been charged in connection with a shooting in Rochdale after a man suffered 20 gunshot wounds in an incident in April this year. The man suffered wounds...
Solicitors from Rochdale have represented defendants in the campaign to prevent pubs from showing live broadcasts of Premier League football matches via foreign satellite...
Rochdale Infirmary is set to lose another of its services. The Orthopaedic Trauma unit at the Infirmary could be moved from Rochdale to the Royal Oldham Hospital on 1 October...
THE number of abortions carried out in Rochdale, Heywood and Middleton has increased by more than one a fortnight. Department of Health figures for the area's primary care...
A 79-year-old woman recently released from hospital has been refused home visits by her doctor because she is staying temporarily just a few hundred yards the wrong side of the...
Rochdale Council has announced that Bowlee Nursery in Middleton is blooming again following the arson attack that devastated the main nursery building earlier this month. The...
Rochdale has the sixth-worst rate of early deaths from heart disease and stroke in England. Some 264 Rochdale people per 100,000 die prematurely from heart disease or stroke...
