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Candles were lit in Rochdale at KYP’s Unity House on Tuesday (23 December) as people from all communities gathered to pay their respects to 145 children and teachers who lost...
Date Published 24/12/2014
Wardleworth Community Centre and Greater Manchester Police (GMP) held a family fun day on Monday (22 December). The event included a fun filled day with activities including a...
Smiles were on the faces of children from refugee and domestic abuse victim families who have been displaced from their homes as a result of war and conflict on Monday (22...
Date Published 23/12/2014
Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) has belatedly agreed to help two tenants who are living in 'unfit conditions' after originally telling them they could only be seen in the New...
After knocking down the old bus station and the black box, Rochdale Council has installed 28 poles in between the two former sites at a cost of £3,500. Mark Widdup, Director of...
A new special hybrid operating theatre is to be created at The Royal Oldham Hospital. The project, which will see the conversion of the existing theatre number three at the...
The past weeks have seen terrorist attacks both in Australia and Pakistan from people who claim to be Muslim and acting in the name of God. The Rochdale Council of Mosques (RCM)...
Tyler Barry, age 9, was named 'Junior Warden of the Year' for Alkrington in Middleton. Tyler always turns up on time every week and also shows his commitment by attending the...
I hope everyone has had a very happy Xmas and looking forward to the New Year. This month we saw the Coalition Chancellor, George Osborne, tell the country about his financial...
On 23 December 1994 Tracey Mertens kissed her two children goodbye and set off from her home in Rochdale on an overnight visit to Birmingham. She never came back. Detectives...
People in Rochdale are being encouraged to extend a little Winter Wise warmth towards isolated older people as temperatures start to fall. Contact the Elderly, a national...
Doctors working at The Royal Oldham’s busy A&E department are encouraging local residents to stock up their medicine cabinet and think carefully before going to A&E during the...
Heywood Firefighter Pete Griffiths has won an award for his outstanding charity efforts for humanitarian aid charity, Operation Florian. The Beyond the Call of Duty Award is a...
Care homes in Rochdale are now more informed about fire safety thanks to a campaign by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS). Residential care home owners and...
The children of Lower Falinge enjoyed an afternoon at the pantomime on Monday (22 January). Volunteers from Lower Falinge Activity Group took the children from Junior Wardens...
Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk recently revealed there are more asylum seekers being placed in Rochdale than in the whole of the South East region. He said: "The system at the...
Date Published 22/12/2014
Two men were seriously assaulted at their work’s Christmas party in the Grapes Pub in Norden. At around 9.30pm on Friday 19 December 2014, a 29-year-old man was stood in the...
This year, for the first time in five years, all councillors have paid their council tax bills on time. In each of the previous four years from 2010/11 to 2013/14 at least one...
Steven Bone (13/05/65) of Whalley Road, Heywood has been jailed for six years and six months for committing burglary and robbery at two care homes in Heywood and Bury. Bone,...
It has been revealed that fewer 11-year-olds in Rochdale hit Key Stage 2 targets in 2014 than any other area in Greater Manchester. The results do, however, show an improvement...
With dramatic changes to the skyline a powerful visible reminder, 2014 was a remarkable year for Rochdale town centre. As part of our round up of the year, we look back at the...
Daryl Smith, 18, and Shelby Cawley, 16, shared the ‘learner of the year’ award at Rathbone Training’s centre in Rochdale.
Scrapbooks charting the life of Gracie Fields which have been missing since around 1984 when the Gracie Fields archive was donated to the people of Rochdale following Gracie’s...
This Sunday Wardle Village Church will be joining the congregations of Dearnley Methodist and St Andrew's Dearnley for a joint service of carols and lessons at St Andrew's led by...
A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital following a road traffic collision this morning (Monday 22 December). The motorcyclist is believed to have suffered two broken legs...
Following a controversial EU ruling that obesity can now be classified as a disability MEP Paul Nuttall has pointed out the unintended consequences. "These faraway judges in...
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year I would like to take this opportunity to wish all our parents and carers and young people a very Happy Christmas and a peaceful new year. This...
Rochdale is known as the birthplace of the modern co-operative movement, as it was here 170 years ago, on the 21 December 1844, that the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society opened...
Date Published 21/12/2014
The Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre has been helping shoppers with their last minute Christmas shopping by holding a Christmas market. The market, which has been running since...
Freehold Community Group held their annual Christmas party on Saturday (20 December) to bring members of the local community together. Held at Castlemere Banqueting Hall the...
