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Schools in Rochdale may not reopen after the summer holidays due to the increasing prevalence of swine flu in the community. The number of swine flu cases continues to...
Date Published 28/07/2009
Rochdale Borough Council is hoping to recruit an army of Community Crime Fighters that will help them and the police tackle crime and make communities safer in the borough....
More than 550 people have found their perfect home in Greater Manchester thanks to an innovative housing scheme. Pinpoint, the largest choice based lettings scheme outside...
In a damning post on the Rochdale Online message board, Parish Priest of St Joseph's RC Church in Heywood, Father Paul Daly has accused the council cabinet member responsible for...
Parliament is now in recess which means I change my place of work from London to Heywood until October. It gives me time to work across my constituency and meet individuals,...
Date Published 27/07/2009
As financial pressures increase, local businesses are finding it even harder to invest in the development of their workforce. An alternative to costly external training is...
Date Published 25/07/2009
Rochdale Council has put a freeze on recruitment unless the job is “essential to service delivery and supports the achievement of savings required by the Efficiency Programme”....
Date Published 23/07/2009
It was revealed at tonight’s (Wednesday 22 July) full council meeting that the council needs to find savings of £100million over the next five years to balance the books....
Date Published 22/07/2009
Councillor Elwyn Watkins was publicly castigated by his party leader when he called for an investigation into allegations about Rochdale Federation of Tenants and Residents...
Rochdale Council Conservative leader, Councillor Ashley Dearnley, took the Lib Dem council to task at tonight’s (Wednesday 22 July) full council meeting for what he called “failed...
Lib Dem Councillor Irene Davidson, deputy leader of Rochdale Council, has accused Viridor Laing, the company that has the waste and recycling contract for the Greater Manchester...
This is Dave Reynolds, a married father-of-two, who was enjoying a lunchtime coffee when he was pulverised with a hammer and left for dead in a pub toilet. Doctors told him if...
Date Published 20/07/2009
A major burst to a water main in Heywood is expected to cause days of traffic chaos. The A58, Bury Street, is closed in both directions adjacent to Rose Hill Street and Council...
Date Published 16/07/2009
I welcome the agreement on climate change reached by the G8 leaders. Gordon Brown has been putting pressure on other countries including America for some time. The G8 leaders have...
Joy Division and John Peel are to be honoured in Rochdale through a series of blue plaques celebrating the town’s musical heritage. The two blue plaques are being funded by...
Heywood were the only local side to reach the semi-finals of the John Willie Lees Twenty20 Competition. They overcame Unsworth by a comfortable 82 runs, while Norden lost to...
Date Published 13/07/2009
Police are investigating after a man was savagely beaten in a Heywood bar. Officers were called to JD Whetherspoons bar at 1.00pm yesterday (Thursday 9 July), where a person...
Date Published 10/07/2009
Representatives of local businesses met Heywood Community School teacher and Apprentice candidate Noorul Choudhury at Heywood’s monthly business Curry Club last night (Wednesday 9...
Date Published 09/07/2009
A blanket of smoke covered part of Heywood last night (Friday 3 July) as a huge blaze ripped through Heywood Mill. Fire fighters from across the region worked through the night...
Date Published 04/07/2009
Swine flu has been confirmed at four schools across the borough, in one of the largest local outbreaks to date. Three cases have been confirmed, and 15 further cases have been...
Date Published 01/07/2009
Work has started on Heywood’s long awaited sports, culture and leisure village. The work began on Monday 15 June. Hoardings have gone up around the site on West Starkey Street...
Date Published 29/06/2009
The economy is still on the brink, but one team of Rochdale ladies has pulled together to form a successful business network, which has pumped life into budding business ventures...
Date Published 26/06/2009
Arras People, the Project Management Recruitment Specialist, has been successful in being name as a supplier by both the Department of Health (DH) & the NHS Purchasing & Supply...
Date Published 21/06/2009
Jim Dobbin MP for Heywood and Middleton, Castleton, Norden and Bamford has pushed for better understanding of heartbeat disorders during Arrhythmia Awareness Week (8-14 June)....
The turn of Heywood Community High School pupils to celebrate leaving school with a prom, at the Village Hotel in Bury. Stretch limousine companies are clearly not feeling the...
Date Published 17/06/2009
A pensioner with walking difficulties was pushed over by a thief who stole his wallet in Heywood. The 68-year-old victim was returning to his home on St James Street from a...
Woodland Primary School is setting a trend for other schools to follow, accoring to Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin. Mr Dobbin mentioned the Regent Street school in...
Date Published 16/06/2009
The development of a five storey office block and flats in Heywood has been approved by councillors despite concerns over parking in the town centre. There are no plans to...
Date Published 15/06/2009
As part of Tackling Drugs, Saving Lives week, Rochdale Online takes a look into one of the organisations which provides a great help in Heywood. Adelaide Street Addiction...
Date Published 10/06/2009
Transport bosses have asked for detailed studies into rail links between Heywood, Bury and Ramsbottom. Members of Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority (GMITA) are...
Date Published 09/06/2009
