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Patients can now rate and compare GP practices on a new online comparison service. The Government recently announced that it is opening up more choice for patients as they will...
Date Published 30/10/2009
I returned to Parliament from Stockholm after attending a European Conference as part of the Swedish Presidency where 31 countries were represented. I was able to make a...
Date Published 19/10/2009
In his recent report to the Council, Rochdale Borough Council Leader Councillor Alan Taylor commented on a report by the Audit Commission, ‘When it comes to the crunch’ that...
Date Published 15/10/2009
Rochdale Online can reveal that the cost to taxpayers of the Council Communications Team is over £1million per year. The cost of staff alone in the current financial year is...
Date Published 05/10/2009
Rochdale Borough Council, NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale and New Heart for Heywood NDC are wasting public money again by paying a celebrity to open a new building in...
More than 50 people attended the official sod-cutting ceremony at the site of Heywood's new sports, culture and leisure village on Monday (28 September). Keri-Anne Payne, the...
Date Published 02/10/2009
Police in Rochdale have issued a warning to motorists following a number of stone throwing attacks on vehicles. Since April there have been ten incidents where motorists have...
Date Published 29/09/2009
Leader of Labour on Rochdale Borough Council, Councillor Colin Lambert has called for the resignation of the Cabinet Member for Regeneration on Rochdale Council Councillor Sharif...
In the week that Rochdale Borough Council and Rochdale Development Agency are being castigated for promoting low wages in Rochdale, Rochdale Online understands that the Council...
Rochdale businesses have just one week left to get their hands on £600,000 worth of ‘Creative Credits’ that will be given to the first wave of applicants. The UK’s innovation body...
Rochdale Borough Council has revealed that eight providers are to be given contracts to provide home support over the coming years. Council cabinet member for health and social...
Date Published 28/09/2009
Heywood Railway Station was the start of a journey back in time to memories of the war years at a special Home Front and Allied 1940s Wartime Weekend, put together by East...
Date Published 27/09/2009
Tom Hardman was named man of the match as Heywood won the Lake Garage CLL’s Twenty20 Competition with a 13-run victory in the final at Clifton. The teenager hit 30 in a...
Date Published 24/09/2009
A Heywood laundrette was badly damaged by fire during the early hours of yesterday morning (Sunday 20 September). The blaze at the laundrette on Bury Street was well...
Date Published 21/09/2009
Five men banged down the door to a home in Heywood and threatened a 17-year-old boy with a hammer, screwdriver and a knife. Shortly after 8.45pm on Monday (7 September), the...
Date Published 11/09/2009
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
A man has been charged in connection with a large-scale fraud investigation in Rochdale. David Atkinson (born 5/4/50) formerly of Walton Street, Heywood, and now living in...
Police in Heywood have issued an E-fit of a suspected burglar who preys on pensioners. At about 6pm on 4 August, a man knocked on the door of a house on Starkey Street, and...
Date Published 04/09/2009
A Heywood Priest has spoken of his concerns that police are too slow to react to incidents of minor crime after he caught three youths throwing stones at church windows. Father...
Date Published 02/09/2009
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...
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...
