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Non-essential shops, gyms, hairdressers and beauty salons can reopen from today (Monday 12 April), as the next stage of relaxing lockdown restrictions begins. Pubs and...
Date Published 12/04/2021
Thoughtful children at Ashworth View Nursery sent a basket of cards and goodies to residents of Beechwood Lodge in Norden. The 30 preschool children made the gifts for the...
Local fundraisers are being encouraged to celebrate the amazing achievements of Captain Tom and support Springhill Hospice with the Captain Tom 100 challenge, launched on the...
Date Published 11/04/2021
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK series two contestant Veronica Green, originally from Rochdale, has released her debut single ‘Stars’.
Date Published 10/04/2021
A group of residents have formed a new Friends group to promote, protect and enhance green spaces in Syke and Cronkeyshaw. The group was founded at a meeting in March when 10...
People in the Muslim community who live with diabetes are being offered help and advice from Diabetes UK to stay healthy during Ramadan – and to mark the occasion safely during...
A Rochdale woman has been banned from driving for two years after a committing a number of driving offences.
Date Published 09/04/2021
A staggering 86% of people in the first nine priority groups across the Rochdale borough have now received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, as of Friday (9 April).
Tributes have been paid locally to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died today (9 April), at the age of 99. Flags outside civic buildings in the borough have been...
The early years foundation stage group at Beech House School has won a first place prize in this year’s National ISA Art competition.
Never one to turn down a challenge, Wing Commander David Forbes has pledged to walk an additional 150 miles to raise much-needed funds for the Mayor of Rochdale’s charity appeal.
Local charity Rochdale Connections Trust (RCT) has developed an innovative approach to provide support for young people. Like many organisations, RCT had to change its approach...
It has been more than four years since three paedophiles of the infamous ‘Rochdale grooming gang’ were told they would face deportation as a result of their abhorrent crimes,...
Plans to build 242 apartments and a 146-bed hotel in Rochdale town centre were approved by Rochdale Council's planning and licencing committee yesterday (8 April).
Local residents have been thanked for their generosity after donating money to a teenager’s sponsored walk around Hollingworth Lake in memory of his mum.
Date Published 08/04/2021
Police chased a suspected drug dealer for more than two miles on foot after a car pursuit through Littleborough on Tuesday 30 March.
Virtual ‘soccer schools’ will be delivered to over 2,000 children in the borough over the Easter school holidays. Rochdale AFC Community Trust has partnered with Link4Life,...
The NHS in the North West has vaccinated more than 3.6 million people against Covid-19, with the number receiving their second dose reaching a new weekly high.
Protracted peace talks between management at Go North West and Unite, the UK’s leading union, collapsed without agreement late last week, meaning that the long running bus strike...
Information on current and forthcoming roadworks planned to take place across the borough.
Hundreds of books, Easter eggs and hampers have been donated to poorly children at The Royal Oldham Hospital, thanks to support from the local community.
Date Published 07/04/2021
The chapel at Heywood Cemetery which was destroyed by fire earlier this year is to be restored by the council. The entirety of the building – apart from the stonework – was...
A Whitworth man has been charged following a stabbing on Wallbank on Easter Monday (5 April). Jamie Fairclough, 33, has been charged with charged with harassment, possessing an...
Two brownfield sites in Rochdale and Middleton have been given funding to be converted into housing sites, as part of the second phase of a £97m development fund.
Over 19,000 metres of gas pipes are to be upgraded in the Rochdale borough in the next 12 months. The programme confirmed for April 2021 to March 2022 comprises 485,178 metres of...
Preparations for the re-opening of the East Lancashire Railway are being hampered by continuing instances of fly-tipping and vandalism along the track, the railway has warned.
On Thursday 6 May residents across Greater Manchester will have their say on who represents them in the Greater Manchester Mayoral and council local elections.
The Revd Anne Gilbert, the new vicar of Rochdale, was born to become a priest. As the daughter of a Church of England vicar, she was born in Goodshaw Vicarage, Rawtenstall where...
Residents are being urged to shop local and support their high street safely as the borough’s non-essential retailers prepare to reopen.
Councillors have called for a crackdown on a ‘criminal element’ allegedly behind an increase in street begging and anti-social behaviour in Rochdale town centre. Hotspots are...
Date Published 06/04/2021
