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Throughout October Rochdale Online has been focusing on Heywood. Features have included the Heywood BMX Club, the Rotary Club of Heywood, Heywood Model Railway Group and there’s...
Date Published 24/10/2010
A Heywood teenager recently spent a month in Peru, sightseeing, exploring, working and teaching English. Bury Grammar School Boys pupil, Kiefer Heatherington, 16, visited Peru...
Date Published 23/10/2010
A Heywood resident is getting a fitness boost thanks to his job hunting efforts. Chris Evans was among almost 1200 people offered entry to a free prize draw after he visited...
Date Published 22/10/2010
Gilwood Fabricators in Heywood was set up in 1964 by Luke Gilmartin and his partner Mr Heywood. The firm was set up to service the textile industry, of course, as the textile...
The Budget cut announcements on 20 October will have been made before this article is published. I can only assume that if the shambolic decision on child benefit and the student...
Date Published 20/10/2010
Almost one year ago the Heywood BMX track situated in the award winning Queen’s Park was officially opened by the then Mayor of Rochdale, Councillor Keith Swift. Twelve months...
Beddoes of Heywood, situated on Market Street, is a friendly, family business, which has been in the Beddoes family for many years. The business started in Failsworth and...
Date Published 18/10/2010
A couple from Heywood have died in following a motorbike crash in Lancashire. Keith Lowcock, 55, and his 48 year old wife Elaine were on a Honda CBR 1100 motorcycle on the A682...
Date Published 17/10/2010
Two teenagers are due in court charged in connection with a burglary at a house in Heywood. Shortly before 9.40am on Thursday (14 October 2010), two youths were seen running...
Date Published 16/10/2010
A man has been jailed for sexually abusing two little girls in Rochdale. Geoffrey Ravenscroft, 62, of Pilsworth Road, Heywood, has been jailed for three years and ordered to...
Depending on who you speak to, retirement is something that should be either cherished or dreaded. Weekday afternoons can be the perfect time to finally take up fishing, or an...
Date Published 15/10/2010
As part of Rochdale Online’s Focus on Heywood month we have been visiting schools in Heywood to meet the new reception class children. With half term coming up it seems that...
Date Published 14/10/2010
The family of a Heywood man who died in a collision on the M66 on Monday (11 October 2010) has paid tribute to him. Clint Brooks, 30, from Pleasant Street, was struck on the...
Date Published 13/10/2010
The Heywood Sports Village was officially opened by His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester today (Wednesday 13 October 2010). The Duke, a first cousin to the Queen, was...
It seems the public are always quite intrigued when it comes to police officers, why they became a police officer, what is their favourite part of the job and so on. So, as...
As part of Rochdale Online’s Focus on Heywood this month Laura Wild caught up with the town’s Councillor’s to find out a little bit more about who they are and what they do....
Date Published 11/10/2010
A blaze in Market Place, Heywood needed two fire engines to put it out. At 23:35pm on Thursday 7 October, emergency services received a report of a fire in a detached garage...
Date Published 08/10/2010
When most people think of model railways an image probably comes to mind of sitting on the floor of a loft or above the garage at a young age, with a single train running in a...
The Rotary Club of Heywood was set up in 1933. It currently has 18 members who meet every week and each year one of the members holds the role of club president. The club is...
Date Published 06/10/2010
As part of Rochdale Online’s monthly feature ‘Focus on....’ Ted, the office bear, has been visiting locations across the borough of Rochdale. On his journey Ted visited plenty...
Date Published 04/10/2010
Heywood’s victorious Queen’s Park received the People’s Choice Award for becoming the nation’s favourite Green Flag park on Friday (1 October 2010). The People’s Choice...
Organising children as young as eight and adults in full-time employment to put on a week-long stage show is no mean feat, but that is the task taken on by the Heywood Amateur...
On 9 August 1873, a Heywood man named Martin Newhouse died without making a will, as a result Queen Victoria purchased land and had it laid out as a park, it was then given for...
Date Published 01/10/2010
Fire-fighters tackled a fire at a commercial premise on Bury Street in Heywood last night (Monday 27 September 2010). The fire service received reports of the fire at 8.30pm....
Date Published 28/09/2010
MP for Middleton and Heywood, Jim Dobbin has called on constituents who haven’t yet made a Will to make an appointment with a Will Aid solicitor. Will Aid solicitors will draw...
Date Published 27/09/2010
A cyclist is in hospital after colliding with a bus in Heywood yesterday (23 September). Police were called to the junction between Bury Old Road and Sutherland Road at...
Date Published 24/09/2010
Queen’s park in Heywood has been named the nation’s favourite park in the People’s Choice Awards. The park received over 2000 votes in Keep Britain Tidy’s quest to discover...
Date Published 22/09/2010
Longford Street Group Practice is spending £500,000 to improve their existing surgery and services in Heywood town centre. A new extension will provide a pharmacy, dental...
Olympic and World Champion Swimmer, Keri-Anne Payne, gave her seal of approval to the new Heywood Sports Village at the weekend. Many people flocked through the doors during...
Date Published 20/09/2010
Two training consultants from Heywood are finalists for a prestigious IT award, for the second year in a row. Sysop Head of Training, Michelle Major-Goldsmith, and principal...
Date Published 17/09/2010
