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Police in Rochdale and the council are sending their own message to victims of domestic abuse this Valentine’s Day – Love shouldn’t hurt! As part of the borough’s new Hands...
Date Published 09/02/2010
Caring cadets from Rochdale Borough are amongst 4,000 young cadets serving in the Army, Sea Cadet and Air Training Corps in units based all over Greater Manchester, who have...
Date Published 08/02/2010
National deafness and hearing loss charity RNID is appealing for people from the Borough to sign up for this year’s Great Manchester Run and raise vital funds for deaf and hard of...
Greater Manchester Police has won an award for innovation in its fight against crime. The force’s Design for Security consultancy has scooped the Association of Chief Police...
Due to the high number of young people out of work – recently estimated at 1 in 5 – a new grant of £2500 is available to help local employers take on young apprentices. The cost...
Radical measures taken by the Government over the last six months will enable councils to continue to improve public services despite the tighter public spending constraints,...
Jim Dobbin MP for Heywood & Middleton received a cardiovascular health check at the House of Commons where he welcomed the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (PCCS) and Heart...
North West health campaigners 'Our Life' has welcomed reports that the government has watered down its plans to allow products to be marketed through television programming. TV...
With the Government urging council's to up their game and recruit more apprentices to deal with rising unemployment and joblessness, according to information supplied by Rochdale...
Date Published 05/02/2010
Britain could be the site for three pilot carbon capture and storage plants after European governments agreed to invest up to six billion euros in the development of clean coal...
Greater Manchester Police’s computer system is now fully operational after a virus was removed. Officers had been cut off from a national database and other criminal justice...
Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Community Healthcare has developed a handbook to help patients that have cancer along their journey. The Cancer Handbook is a new guide to local...
A Heywood man who was found guilty in his absence on two counts of failing to provide a suitable environment for animals and one count of failing to ensure an animal was kept free...
Date Published 04/02/2010
Hundreds of families with school age children in the Borough of Rochdale could benefit from a new scheme offering a free laptop and broadband access. The scheme, which has been...
Johnathan Petrie, 44 from Heywood, is one of six men charged with conspiracy to defraud an East Lancashire company. He was charged and bailed until the 22 February 2010. The...
Date Published 03/02/2010
Did you meet the love of your life on a bus? First Manchester is looking for passengers who met their perfect partner on board to help spread the love this Valentine’s Day. The...
The Government is facing a series of national strikes by hundreds of thousands of civil servants in the run–up to the general election in a bitter row over cuts to compensation...
House prices in the North-West more than doubled over the last decade, new figures show. The statistics show that northern regions of the UK saw the strongest house price...
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) North West has renewed its call for teenagers and young adults to protect themselves against mumps after new figures show the region to be the...
Labour Group Leader on Rochdale Borough Council, Councillor Colin Lambert has hit out at the Lib Dem Council's plan to close four of the borough's care homes. Councillor Lambert...
NHS compensation claims at the Pennine Acute Trust, which runs Rochdale Infirmary, are the third highest in the country. A total of £3.14 million was paid out for claims made to...
Date Published 02/02/2010
Passengers flying from Manchester Airport may now be body scanned — and could be thrown off their flight if they refuse. The move was announced by Transport Secretary Lord...
Greater Manchester Police’s computer system has been crippled by a costly virus. Officers have been cut off from a national criminal database and other criminal justice systems...
Council Tax in the Borough of Rochdale is set to rise by close to 4 per cent, despite inflation at virtually zero per cent, thousands of redundancies locally and pay freezes and...
Households in the Borough have to recycle batteries from today under new EU rules. All waste batteries will have to be recycled under the new batteries directive. It aims to...
Date Published 01/02/2010
Communities are being given a powerful new way to fix local problems under new proposals to strengthen the ability of councils to scrutinise all local public services. A new...
Many people are aware that salt can damage their health, but do not know it is linked to serious health conditions such as stroke, heart disease, osteoporosis, stomach cancer,...
Rochdale and Heywood first new newspaper in many years, the Rochdale & Heywood Independent, is out. People will be able to pick up the paper free of charge at local supermarkets,...
Today (Monday 1 February), Greater Manchester Police is supporting the official launch of Action Fraud, a national reporting centre. Led by The National Fraud Authority (NFA),...
The annual Heywood Festival of Healing, Light and Learning has taken place this weekend at Heywood Civic Centre. The festival, now in its 14th year, included stalls, therapies,...
Date Published 30/01/2010
