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Over 90% of patients would recommend to a friend the new mobile clinical units that are operating in Rochdale as part of Greater Manchester CATS (Clinical Assessment and Treatment...
Date Published 21/04/2009
‘Catching it early could save your life’ is the message of a new cancer campaign launched by NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, Rochdale Council and cancer supporters at the...
Date Published 20/04/2009
The Easter break is coming to an end. Whenever constituents see me in the constituency they naturally think I am on holiday. This is the impression that the tabloid press has...
Environmental campaigners have congratulated Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin MP and Rochdale MP Paul Rowen after they signed a parliamentary motion that hopes to tackle...
Rochdale resident Barbara Thompson has recently given up smoking with the help of NHS Heywood Middleton and Rochdale's Stop Smoking Services. Like many quitters, Ms Thompson...
Date Published 17/04/2009
Almost one in every five people in Rochdale will be aged 65 or over by 2021 and older people in the town can expect to live shorter and less healthy lives than older people across...
Actual trials from the Victorian era will be re-enacted in Rochdale Town Hall’s original Magistrates Courtroom on Sunday (19 April) and you are invited to be part of the audience...
Date Published 16/04/2009
One in six NHS trusts has seen spending on obesity rise more than seven-fold in three years. High demand for stomach surgery for grossly overweight patients as well as...
Rochdale Borough Council has written to approximately 250 residents of Heywood to inform them that the former Boo Hole landfill site has been designated as contaminated land in...
Date Published 15/04/2009
Police in Rochdale are urging residents to keep their vehicles more secure and to help them reduce car crime in the area. Amazingly, criminals get into a quarter of vehicles...
A New York Times best selling Author, John Hart, will be visiting Heywood Library on Wednesday 22 April to talk about his new book, “The Last Child”, to residents. John Hart...
A Rochdale fire chief attended an international earthquake exercise just days before the devastating earthquake in Italy. Deputy Borough Commander Peter Stevenson, from Royton...
Vandals have caused the council to spend thousands of pounds on new high-security fencing at a Heywood railway line.
Date Published 14/04/2009
Easter. What’s it all about? As thousands of us across the borough look forward to a long weekend putting our feet up and eating chocolate eggs, Rochdale Online reporter KIRSTY...
Date Published 08/04/2009
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale (HMR) is hosting an NHS Choice Roadshow in the borough from Tuesday 14 to Saturday 18 April so that everyone in the area can find out about the...
Date Published 07/04/2009
The youth who killed a barmaid after he hurled a bottle into a crowded pub has today been jailed for four-and-a-half years. More details...
I think it is important to make sure that I tell people what is going on at Westminster as it affects people’s lives. This month some very important changes which I supported and...
Heywood railway station has benefited from a new set of car park gates, greatly enhancing the appearance of the station entrance for visitors. The design of the new gates has...
Date Published 06/04/2009
Families, councillors and residents across Heywood turned out to vote for community safety projects they wanted to receive funding. The results mean that Heywood is set to...
Norden's former library has been purchased by Norden Community Trust and will once again be used by the local community. In 2007 when Rochdale Council re-located Norden’s...
There are fewer burglaries happening nowadays compared to five years ago but the council and the police say that it remains a problem that needs to be addressed. Peter Egan,...
Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin has signed a parliamentary motion to relieve pub landlords who are tied into expensive contracts with brewers.
Troubled teens are being sent on “surviving your parents” courses, funded by Rochdale Borough Council. Young people and parents from Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale have signed...
The family of Emma O'Kane, the barmaid who was killed when a glass bottle struck her throat on Boxing Day, has raised £3000 for the three young children she left behind. The...
Date Published 05/04/2009
The friends and family of the barmaid who was killed in a Heywood bar will tonight join for a special fundraising night in her memory. Emma O’Kane died after being struck with...
Date Published 04/04/2009
The future of Hopwood Hall College’s redevelopment plans are uncertain according to a report into the collapse of the Government’s multi-billion-pound college building...
Date Published 03/04/2009
The controversial move of maternity, new born baby and children’s services away from Rochdale Infirmary will not take place until the winter of 2011/2012. As part of the...
Longfield Road in Spotland is the latest site to receive the Big Clean treatment from Rochdale Council after members of the Spotland Tenants and Residents Association nominated...
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale (NHS HMR) has revealed which providers will deliver four new GP practices and a GP-led health centre planned for the borough. The four new...
Three hundred young people from across Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale enjoyed an evening at Honey Nightclub in Rochdale Town Centre for the Project X under 18’s club...
