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A brawl involving several weapons, including a machete, has left seven men in hospital with serious injuries. A group of men started fighting on Raleigh Gardens in...
Date Published 15/09/2009
Rochdale residents can take part in a sponsored 'Water Walk' along the Littleborough section of the Rochdale Canal this weekend. Charities Leonard Cheshire Disability and The...
Date Published 07/09/2009
Following an article regarding Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) achieving Digital UK’s Homes Set for Digital award a Rochdale Online reader queried ALL the communal aerials on...
Date Published 06/09/2009
The Rochdale Legal Advice Partnership helps solve peoples problems which are central to their lives. These include: debt, consumer issues, benefits, housing, legal matters,...
Date Published 01/09/2009
All RBH tenants and their families are invited to the RBH Celebration and Information Day Saturday 3 October 10am to 3pm at Rochdale Town Hall. It's an opportunity to celebrate...
More than 150 people have been so badly attacked by dogs in the last five years they have needed hospital treatment. Twenty-nine casualties, including four under 18s, were...
Rochdalians are being urged to give blood now to save lives this winter — and have been told to bring along a relative, friend and colleague too. The dip in winter donations is...
Changes to the way the post is delivered are in the pipeline, with plans for posties to do their rounds in vans. The image of the postman on the beat who struggles with his...
Half of all over 55s believe they are either too old or too ill to be organ donors. Research into the reasons why people aren’t signed up to the NHS Organ Donor Registry found...
Moves to phase out all but energy-saving lightbulbs have been slammed by a North-West Euro-MP. Chris Nuttall, of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), has hit out at moves by the...
Four Greater Manchester Police officers and one member of police staff will face charges of misconduct in public office following allegations of the use of excessive force and...
When Tory frontbench politician Chris Grayling MP compared gang crime in Moss Side to that of Baltimore, as depicted in the Wire, his remarks sparked a storm of protest. The same...
The Healthy Futures roadshow which has been travelling the north east of Greater Manchester for the past three months has now reached an estimated 50,000 people. The roadshow aims...
Date Published 28/08/2009
Rochdale borough’s seven-year-olds are lagging behind at school. New figures show that 82 per cent of them reached the expected standard for their age in reading and 78 per...
Holidaymakers had an average of nine alcoholic drinks on every day of their summer break a new survey has revealed. The study — part of the Know Your Limits campaign — showed...
Dozens of babies across the area were so keen to come into the world they did not let their mums get to the labour ward before making their appearance. In 2008, 120 babies...
The number of people killed or injured on Greater Manchester’s roads has fallen by more than 70 a month in the last year, according to the Department for Transport. A total of...
As the North West gears up for one of its busiest holiday periods over the August Bank Holiday, health bosses in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale are issuing advice to local people...
Senior Executives of Rochdale Borough Council are facing redundancy as part of the Council’s ‘efficiency programme’. The number of Executive Leadership Team members is to be...
Date Published 25/08/2009
More than 670 people, 67 of them in Rochdale, have been arrested as part of Operation Admiral, Greater Manchester Police's major crackdown on alcohol-fuelled crime. In one of...
Date Published 23/08/2009
Rochdale Borough Council has chosen a partner to work on its £196 million Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Programme to transform the borough’s secondary schools....
Last year the National Health Service celebrated sixty years since its creation. The brainchild of William Beveridge, Liberal MP for Berwick upon Tweed and introduced by fiery...
Date Published 19/08/2009
Hollin Lane, Middleton - Hazlehurst Drive to Whalley Road Temporary 3 way signals to facilitate gas main work Until 20 August 2009 Smithy Bridge Road, Littleborough – at...
Date Published 18/08/2009
Rain affected every game in the CLL on Saturday butlocal sides Norden and Littleborough were still able to carve out victories. Werneth scored a respectable 196 for eight off...
Date Published 17/08/2009
The average family throws away around £50 worth of food each month. Rochdale Council has joined forces with all the councils in Greater Manchester to make sure you can ‘love...
Date Published 14/08/2009
A Littleborough businessman has been placed on the sex offenders' register for five years and ordered to undergo a three year treatment programme after he was convicted of...
Date Published 07/08/2009
The eighth annual Littleborough Open Arts Festival is to take place between 30 August and 6 September at the Coach House, Littleborough. The festival will include a variety of art...
Date Published 04/08/2009
In its latest annual health profile for the Borough of Rochdale the Association of Public Health Observatories, funded by the Department of Health, has revealed the health of...
Date Published 01/08/2009
July has been the wettest since 1998 and experts predict there’s worse to come. Rain has fallen for 24 days out of 31 — a lot higher than the average of 13. Rochdale has...
The 'September' issue of Rochdale Borough Council's 'propaganda' magazine, Local Matters, has for the past week (the last week in July) been dropping through letterboxes...
