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Over thirty Greater Manchester firefighters took their fight to Parliament on Tuesday 2 July to lobby MPs against Mayor Andy Burnham’s proposed cuts to Greater Manchester fire and...
Date Published 03/07/2019
Homebase at Sandbrook Park will be closing after its lease terminated on Monday 1 July.
Staff at Beech House School are thrilled to have been recognised as leaders in Private Primary and Secondary Education in North West England.
Detectives are re-appealing for information and help to trace the driver of a vehicle who approached a schoolgirl in Rochdale.
Barley View care home in Whitworth opened its doors to the local community during a special event for National Care Home Open Day on Friday (28 June 2019).
An investigation into a Rochdale business is under way after a kitchen knife was sold to a child during an undercover operation.
Hundreds of people came together to mark the annual Armed Forces Day on Saturday (29 June) as a series of special flag raising events were held at locations across the borough.
Figures released on Tuesday 2 July show a significant drop in the number of people smoking in Greater Manchester.
This weekly column from the Mayor of Rochdale, Councillor Billy Sheerin, is about the places he has been and the people he has met during the week commencing Monday 17 to Sunday...
Date Published 02/07/2019
Thousands of adults across Greater Manchester will soon benefit from locally funded skills training as devolution of the £92 million Adult Education Budget (AEB) moves a step...
Children’s hospice Grace’s Place, which serves Bury, Rochdale and Oldham, may have to close due to a lack of funding, despite only opening in January this year.
The 40th anniversary of the Woolworths fire in Manchester was marked with a conference for staff members from fire and rescue services across the country and those who work in the...
Tech firms should protect children from sexual, self-harm, suicide and violent content online, say 91% of young people in an NSPCC survey.
More patients than ever before have taken part in research at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group (NCA) to improve NHS care and treatment.
Dippy’s visit to Rochdale had a major boost last week when The National Lottery Heritage Fund announced a grant of £159,000 towards the ambitious programme of activities and...
A 20 foot shipping container, a fork lift truck and an abandoned car were removed from Sparth Bottoms on 26 June as part of on-going work by the council to tackle a range of...
As a precautionary measure, patients taking certain types of prescription-only medicines for Parkinson’s (Neupro), epilepsy (Vimpat) and blood clots (Clexane) are asked to check...
A man who was convicted of supplying high-value drugs across Manchester and Cumbria has been ordered to pay back more than £65,000.
A new card giving Greater Manchester’s 16 to 18-year-olds the freedom to travel, work and learn has been launched.
A police drone recently proved instrumental in finding a missing man in Rochdale on 25 June, after officers received reports of a man acting suspiciously.
A woman from Heywood who was accused of racially abusing a taxi driver in Rochdale has had her case dismissed by Manchester magistrates.
Date Published 01/07/2019
Schoolchildren of all ages at Greenbank Primary celebrated their second sports and healthy lifestyles week during the last week of June.
Five men from the Rochdale borough have been charged over the first weekend of the national drink and drug drive campaign.
Inspector Robert MacGregor, of the Rochdale East Neighbourhood Policing Team, on what the police are doing to tackle local issues across the borough. This week, he asks "what...
Rochdale resident Aaron Parmar has received a special award from the Mayor of Rochdale after completing a gruelling charity challenge, running 22 10K races in memory of each of...
Members of the Rochdale Environmental Action Group (REAG) cleaned Cecil Street, Deeplish, and worked on the adopted community garden, trimming the intruding branches, flowers and...
Families grieving the tragic loss of a child will no longer have to meet the costs of their burial or cremation, as a result of a new government scheme set up to provide financial...
In Parliament I supported National Carer’s Week which celebrates and recognises the vital contribution made by those caring on an unpaid basis for someone living with an illness,...
Prolific race organiser Andy O’Sullivan MBE is continuing to stage races in the north west despite battling serious illness, and hopes that local runners will support him during...
HM Revenue and Customs is reminding customers that they must renew their tax credits by 31 July – or their payments will stop.
