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This time last year the mayoral engagements eased off after a busy Christmas and New Year. This year is very much the same, but the easing off began nearly a year ago in March...
Date Published 06/02/2021
The borough of Rochdale has come together to take a stand against hate crime as part of Greater Manchester’s hate crime awareness week, which runs from 1 to 7 February.
Hopwood Hall College is building a £6.1m extension to its Technology Centre in Rochdale as it prepares to launch a range of T-Level qualifications.
More than 35,000 people in the Rochdale borough have now received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.
Date Published 05/02/2021
Six people have been arrested following warrants executed in Manchester as part of a crackdown on criminal groups involved in serious crime in Rochdale.
Heywood and Middleton MP, Chris Clarkson says there is a lot more work to be done in tackling child sexual exploitation.
Campaigners want to create a new forest to act as a giant ‘sponge’ in flood-prone Littleborough. The Pennines town often suffers when the region is hit by heavy rainfall –...
Work to improve accessibility at Mills Hill Railway Station is still not complete two years after it first began, due to delays from the coronavirus pandemic. Pre-pandemic, the...
Local families who are eligible for the free school meal benefit will receive a £20 voucher per eligible child from Rochdale Council this February half term.
Military personnel are to join forces with North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) clinicians to support the response to some non-emergency patients in the North West region.
The worst of the Covid pandemic’s ‘third wave’ appears to be over in the Rochdale borough – but concerns remain over a ‘rapidly spreading’ new variant.
Online courses in health awareness and employability skills have been launched by the Centre of Wellbeing, Training and Culture.
Date Published 04/02/2021
Thursday 4 February is Time to Talk Day, the day that we get the nation talking about mental health. As many as one in four adults and one in eight young people will experience a...
Information on current and forthcoming roadworks planned to take place across the borough.
The multi-award winning Brown’s Cakes in Rochdale celebrated 10 years of business on 31 January. Instantly recognisable with its candy pink exterior, Browns, based on St Mary’s...
Wardle Academy Year 8 students attended a live online seminar with Amnesty International on Wednesday 20 January.
Residents of the borough of Rochdale who are aged 70 or over and have not yet received their first Covid-19 vaccination, can now ring or email to book an appointment.
A Rochdale social club is aiming to tackle mental health concerns with a gentle spot of fishing. Tackling Minds aims to promote fishing to people from every walk of life; from...
Police are appealing for the public’s help to trace the next of kin of a man from Middleton. Ian Whitehead, 55 years old, sadly died at his home on Warren Close, Middleton on...
Former Mayor Ian Duckworth is warning local residents to keep personal belongings safe after his car was stolen.
Local railway lines will be closed for 16 days this summer as work improving the railway as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade begins.
A drink driver who was detained by members of the public has been sentenced to eight weeks in prison and banned from driving for four years.
Greater Manchester Police has stepped in to help a charity aiming to build a 999 Cenotaph in London to honour all those lost while serving in the NHS and emergency services.
Date Published 03/02/2021
The Edgar Wood-designed Long Street Methodist Church in Middleton has received a financial boost to help fund repairs from the government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund.
Headteachers in the Rochdale borough have been written to by Rochdale Council with a request to make sure school staff are not jumping the vaccination queue by booking...
Hospitals in Greater Manchester have been battling hospital-acquired outbreaks of coronavirus. Picking up a virus while being treated in hospital as a patient is termed a...
Work to create a brand new link road at junction 19 of the M62 is officially underway in Heywood, with contractor John Sisk & Son starting the build on site.
Greater Manchester leaders have agreed to spend more than £69m on developing a ‘world class’ public transport system in the city-region.
Date Published 02/02/2021
A civil claim has been started against Greater Manchester Police in relation to Natasha Wild’s death in 2016. Natasha, 23, died in November 2016 after she was stabbed in the neck...
Northern services have returned to the Calder Valley after customers were earlier asked not to travel due to heavy snowfall overnight.
