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A Nottinghamshire couple are appealing for witnesses after their boat was vandalised on the Rochdale Canal in Littleborough last weekend.
Date Published 12/09/2012
Local peace campaigner, Philip Gilligan, from Littleborough, is celebrating his full recovery from open heart surgery last summer with a sponsored peace walk along the 28...
Date Published 10/09/2012
Here at St Andrew's, the parish church of Dearnley and Smithy Bridge, we are working with the Trussell Trust, other churches and faith communities to launch a Foodbank in...
Date Published 05/09/2012
The Borough of Rochdale honoured its Olympians with a Civic Reception at Rochdale Town Hall tonight (Monday 3 September). Four of the six local Olympic athletes attended:...
Date Published 03/09/2012
On Thursday morning (30 August) a woman was crushed between a skip and a car on a driveway in Brookfield Drive in Littleborough. She was pinned between the skip and a people...
We have had a great holiday this year even though, or perhaps because, we had our smallest group ever: eight children. It’s getting harder and harder to find new host families but...
Date Published 28/08/2012
Our youth group STANLEY will meet in Church at 6.00pm on Sunday, September 2, while on Monday evening, also in the parish room, our recently-formed branch of the Mothers' Union...
Date Published 27/08/2012
Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club's Jessica Leyden was part of the lottery-funded GB junior women's quadruple scull which reached the top 12 at the World Junior Rowing Championships...
Date Published 24/08/2012
Featherstall Road in Littleborough was closed for two hours last night (14 August) after a car overturned outside the Royal Exchange pub; injuring a pedestrian.
Date Published 15/08/2012
We are delighted to confirm that our friends from Wigan, the band 'Gifted', will be making a return appearance at St Andrew's on the evening of Saturday, September 29. Many of...
Date Published 14/08/2012
Hollingworth Lake rower Jessica Leyden, 17, has been selected by the GB Rowing Team to race in the junior women's quadruple scull at the World Junior Championships next week.
Date Published 13/08/2012
GB sailors Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell had to settle for silver after falling short of their Australian rivals in the men's 470 medal race in Weymouth. The British duo...
Date Published 10/08/2012
Rochdale’s town centre parks have been given the official seal of approval at a green flag raising ceremony in the Memorial Gardens.
Date Published 09/08/2012
Today’s a big day at the Olympic Games, as two of our local athletes hope to bring home medals for Team GB. Rochdale-born Stuart Bithell, our hopeful in the men’s 470 sailing,...
In a service at St Andrew’s Church, Dearnley, on Monday evening 16 new members of the Mothers Union were admitted to the recently re-formed branch. The short service was led...
Date Published 07/08/2012
Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group members gathered beside Hollingworth Lake on Sunday night (5 August) to mark the 67th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb...
Date Published 06/08/2012
The Team GB Olympic men’s quads rowing team, coached by Littleborough-born Mark Banks, narrowly missed out on a medal in the quadruple sculls final this morning (3 August)....
Date Published 03/08/2012
One of Rochdale’s brightest Olympic hopefuls scored her first goal of the Games last night (31 July). 24-year-old Nicola White from Littleborough scored her debut goal for...
Date Published 01/08/2012
At about 11.40pm on Sunday 29 July 2012 employees were preparing to close the Beach pub on Lake Bank when three masked men walked into the pub. One of the men shouted at...
The recently-formed branch of the Mothers' Union (MU) at St Andrew's, the parish church of Dearnley and Smithy Bridge, will be formally launched at a special service in church on...
Date Published 31/07/2012
Despite the inclement weather, a garden party and barbecue put on by Rev Sharon Jones, raised £430 for St Andrew's, the parish church of Dearnley and Smithy Bridge at...
Date Published 30/07/2012
The fifth annual Walk and Ride Festival will make its way through Rochdale this September. Keen walkers, cyclists and horse riders are invited to enjoy the splendour of the...
The news that Labour councillor Aftab Hussain has been 'promoted' to Chairman of the Pennines Township Committee has outraged the people of Rochdale. Councillor Hussain gave a...
The big day is finally upon us. Tonight, all eyes will be on the UK for the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. And whilst 204 countries are taking parting the...
Date Published 27/07/2012
Performance Doorset Solutions (PDS) has announced an expansion in capacity with an investment in a 6 figure state of the art semi-automatic paint line and factory expansion to...
The fate of Team GB’s rowers at this year’s London Olympics rests partly on the shoulders of their Littleborough-born coach, despite an unfortunate accident almost shattering his...
Date Published 26/07/2012
We are happy at St Andrew's, the parish church of Dearnley and Smithy Bridge, to see a gradually increasing number of new faces in Church on Sunday mornings so with that in mind...
Date Published 25/07/2012
Last weekend saw the sun shine on Littleborough as it celebrated the biggest event in its calendar – the annual Rushbearing Festival.
Date Published 23/07/2012
A Littleborough retailer has been ordered to pay £1260 after he was caught selling alcohol to a 15- year-old girl. Tamazer Ali (32), the former owner of the Lake Supermarket...
Date Published 18/07/2012
It was announced today that all of our eight green flag sites in the borough have retained the accolade for the second year running.
Date Published 17/07/2012
