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Middleton’s annual festival, Middfest, took place in Limefield Park today (Sunday 26 July). Organised by Middleton Round Table, the event saw people come together to enjoy the...
Date Published 26/07/2015
Four new stone flags have been installed by Heywood Township as part of the borough's World War One Centenary commemorations and a dedication service to commemorate the recent new...
Date Published 25/07/2015
As the sun shone over Littleborough, it seemed like the whole of the village turned out for this year’s Rushbearing Festival. Starting at the King Bill pub on Shore Road, the...
Over 550 people packed St Joseph's church in Heywood for the Silver Jubilee Mass for Father Paul Daly. It was on 22 July 1990 that Father Daly was ordained as a Catholic priest...
A group of friends who call themselves ‘The Mighty Hikers’ have raised over £1,100 for Macmillan. Friends Karl Wild, Peter Whitehead, Gemma Bridge, Andrew Oldfield and Sarah...
Leanne McQue is set to do a tandem skydive in October to raise money to send a young boy with leukaemia to Disneyland. Leanne, who has raised money for the family before, is...
Police are appealing for information following a burglary on Saturday 18 July. At 2:44am, a burglary was committed at business premises on Manchester Road, Castleton. Various...
Historic England is considering the Buersil and Balderstone War Memorial for addition to the List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (‘The List’), as part...
Petrus Incredible Edible Rochdale (PIER) launched Incredible Medical, a new community gardening project, with an event which attracted over a 100 people armed with spades and...
Soon-to-be students got a taste of college life recently when they visited Hopwood Hall College’s Rochdale campus. The students, who are all going to be studying graphics or...
The success of an ambitious five-year landscape-scale restoration project to revitalise vast areas of important moorland habitat is being celebrated. Since 2010 the MoorLIFE...
More than half a million people have renewed their tax credits online, 278,000 more than at the same time last year.
Led by Matt Palmer on reeds along with Dave Leithead on trumpet (and fire claxon), Dave Crossley on trombone, Jazz On A Sunday loyalty card carrier Malcolm Hogarth on piano, Jim...
Green fingered students from Whitworth Community High School have been making a difference in their community. Nine students have been working with Whitworth Horticultural...
Charity events at Whitworth Community High School have raised nearly £1,900 for good causes this year. The school’s charity group organised a host of activities from a mass ice...
Headteachers and students in Whitworth are celebrating after all their schools were judged to be good or outstanding by Ofsted. The Whitworth Cluster involves primary schools...
Date Published 24/07/2015
Specialist officers from Greater Manchester Police have been speaking to travellers at Manchester Airport this week about the threat of honour-based abuse and female genital...
Rochdale Liberal Democrats say it is "very disappointing" that Councillor Peter Rush has left the Liberal Democrats and joined the Labour Party.
The over 50s who are ‘successful agers’, healthy, active, sociable, and well off, are more at risk of harmful drinking than their less successful peers, concludes research...
Tenant and employee members of RBH have the chance to make their voices heard as voting opens in the 2015 RBH representative body elections.
Date Published 23/07/2015
Rochdale alternative rock band ‘The Hotspur Press’ complete the main stage line up at Rochdale Feel Good Festival, after winning first prize in this year's ‘Feel Good – Battle of...
A service will be held this summer to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Victory over Japan Day, taking place on Saturday 15 August 2015 in Middleton Memorial Gardens.
With the consultation closing on 1 August, residents still have time to have their say on how weekly food collections and three-weekly rubbish collections can be introduced with...
Staff at Hopwood Hall College got the chance to get sporty recently as they took part in the College’s annual health and well-being day.
Vandalism hit the Ashton to Rochdale Metrolink line again yesterday. The latest incident, between the Failsworth and Hollinwood stops shortly after noon, follows a string of...
Dean Wharmby, 39, from Rochdale, has died following his battle with liver cancer. Dean, a father of one, was diagnosed with the disease in November 2014 after a large tumour...
Milnrow snooker player Ben Murphy, 14, is continuing to make strides in his career as he hopes to represent England for the second time. The teenager, who stated playing...
Councillors on the Rochdale Township Committee have agreed the disposal of land at Wellington Place and Ramsay Street, Rochdale. The section of land between Ramsay Street and...
Coffee Options, a coffee shop that was located opposite W H Smith in the Exchange Shopping Centre, has closed. It is currently unclear why the coffee shop has closed, but there...
Mark Birkett is on a mission to bring an innovative retail experience to Rochdale - using a modern co-operative movement of local people. Speaking to Rochdale Online, he said:...
