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The Electoral Commission, the independent elections watchdog, is calling for voters affected by problems at polling stations last Thursday to contact them to as part of a review...
Date Published 09/05/2010
Labour candidate Jim Dobbin has been re-elected as MP for Heywood and Middleton after retaining the seat with 18,499 votes. Mr Dobbin said he was “ecstatic” to remain the...
Date Published 07/05/2010
Britain's largest teaching union is urging members not to plug the gap during the SATs boycott. The National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) and the National Union of...
Date Published 06/05/2010
Greater Manchester Police officers and staff were awarded commendations for bravery along with long service and good conduct by the Chief Constable Peter Fahy at a recent award...
Actress and model Kelly Brook is eyeing up budding models, as she launches Specsavers’ nationwide search for the Spectacle Wearer of the Year 2010. The former Strictly Come...
Date Published 05/05/2010
Greater Manchester Police has today, Wednesday 5 May 2010, launched an innovative call-handling system that automatically flags up callers' details. Designed to provide an...
A volunteer drivers scheme, which helps older people in Rochdale get out and about, celebrated its 10,000th journey on Friday 30 April with a special event at Springhill Hospice....
Allegations of electoral fraud are being investigated in Rochdale and three other Greater Manchester boroughs. Voters in Rochdale, north Manchester, Oldham and Bolton have all...
Date Published 04/05/2010
Rochdale Boroughwide Housing tenants are being given the opportunity to flaunt their flowers again in the search for the best garden in the borough. For the fourth year...
Arras People co-Director Lindsay Scott has been named one of ten key “influencers” in the project management industry by the Association for Project Management (APM) in the April...
Date Published 03/05/2010
Criminals were left with nowhere to hide in a police clampdown of offenders. As part of the initiative officers stepped up patrols between 19 to 25 April to target offenders...
Date Published 29/04/2010
The search is on for local bands, groups or solo artists to appear at this year Feel Good Festival. Four will get to play in one of the town’s indoor venues, whilst one band...
Date Published 28/04/2010
Are you prepared to fly the flag for england? Heywood Business Group is encouraging local businesses to ‘Fly the Flag for England’ during their FIFA World Cup campaign in...
Murders and manslaughters in Greater Manchester are at their lowest level for nearly 20 years. There were 35 killings recorded in Greater Manchester in 2009/10, a drop of 58.3...
Police have insisted they are doing all they can to monitor sex offenders — as it was revealed 15 were missing across Greater Manchester and more than 300 are missing in the UK....
Date Published 27/04/2010
Forget waiting for Saturday night to watch Britain’s Got Talent or the end of the summer for the X- Factor to start – watch Rochdale’s Got Talent instead! Acts ranging from rock...
Date Published 26/04/2010
Parents are being urged to protect their children with two doses of MMR vaccine following a small outbreak of measles in Greater Manchester. Three confirmed cases of measles...
Greater Manchester Police is warning off-licences to abide by their conditions or they will be closed. It comes after Booze Zone, at Edenfield Road, Rochdale has had its...
Date Published 23/04/2010
The Brit poppers the Bluetones, who headlined last year's Feel Good Festival in Rochdale, are on the verge of releasing their sixth album, “A New Athens”, and are heading out on...
Date Published 20/04/2010
The Love Your Bike campaign has released the results of a survey in which they asked Greater Manchester cyclists to rank the types of bus driver behaviour that makes them feel...
A patient lost a testicle during an operation because the surgeon cut it off by mistake, a General Medical Council (GMC) hearing has been told. Dr Sulieman Al Hourani was only...
Date Published 19/04/2010
The Liberal Democrat led Rochdale Borough Council is snubbing England's saints' day, by failing to organise a flag raising ceremony at Rochdale Town Hall on Friday 23 April, St...
Tackling the problem of illegal lending by loan sharks was the subject at a ‘Loan Shark Awareness’ event at Rochdale Town Hall. The Council, the Police, Citizens Advice Bureau,...
Local schools are set to boycott next month’s national tests for 11-year-olds. Two unions have backed the action during the English and maths SATs exams which are due to start...
The ‘Heywood in Bloom’ group is to enter Heywood into a national competition in which a large part of the marks are awarded for the community working together. The group are...
Dozens of swimmers took to the water at the Gaskell Pool, Heywood for the 2010 Swimathon. Swimathon is the world’s biggest fundraising swim. In its 24th year over half a million...
Date Published 18/04/2010
National Air Traffic Services (NATS) have now confirmed that no flights will be permitted in UK controlled airspace until 7am tomorrow (Sunday 18 April), at the earliest, due to...
Date Published 17/04/2010
The results of the latest annual survey of NHS staff carried out by the Care Quality Commission shows that the Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Primary Care Trust has significantly...
Date Published 16/04/2010
Violence and harassment in the four hospitals that make up Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust are above the national average. The key findings from the latest Care Quality...
Pay rises for high-earning bosses at the Pennine Acute Trust have bucked the national trend. A report by Incomes Data Services said hospital chief executives pocketed an average...
