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A new housing scheme has been officially opened in Heywood. Four environmentally friendly bungalows funded by Rochdale Council have been completed on Heady Hill Road, on a...
Date Published 02/04/2009
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 to...
Rochdale shopkeepers will be banned from selling cigarettes and tobacco if they persistently supply children. The ban is part of the Government’s Smoking Kills campaign which...
The East Lancashire Railway is considering suspending services following a series of stone throwing attacks on drivers. The latest incident saw a trainee driver temporarily...
Rochdale's primary school pupils are performing above the national average in English, maths and science and have done better than last year according to latest league...
The Health Protection Agency North West and NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale have renewed their plea to parents to vaccinate unprotected children with two doses of MMR vaccine...
Date Published 31/03/2009
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen, Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin and Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Phil Woolas, whose constituency covers Milnrow and Newhey, claimed £466,450 on...
More than a fifth of NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale staff witnessed potentially harmful errors, near misses or incidents in the month before filling in a national survey to...
Date Published 30/03/2009
The decision to demolish a popular swimming pool to make way for a £10M sports and fitness centre will be confirmed next week. Rochdale Borough Council’s Regulatory Committee...
Free swimming in Rochdale borough pools for all under 17s and over 60s will start on Wednesday (1 April). It is estimated that around 90,000 residents will benefit and the...
Date Published 29/03/2009
A six-year-old girl was held at knifepoint with her parents as robbers demanded the family’s car. Three men with knives stormed the Heywood house at 8.30pm on Tuesday (17...
Date Published 27/03/2009
Almost 150 women across Rochdale were hospitalised with alcohol poisoning after binge drinking sessions last year. Doctors treated 133 women over the age of 18 and a further...
Rochdale schools will not provide the morning after pill to young girls, despite government scheme urging the move. It was reported today (Wednesday 25 March) that schoolgirls...
Date Published 25/03/2009
A soap actor who lives in Heywood has pleaded guilty to fracturing the jaw of a 16-year-old. Luke Tittensor, 19, who plays Daz Eden in the ITV1 soap Emmerdale, admitted inflicting...
Rochdale fire fighters are urging residents to discard of cigarettes carefully following a fire at a maisonette in Smallbridge at the weekend. Early on Sunday morning crews...
Date Published 24/03/2009
The Football Foundation has presented £1 million towards the sporting aspect of Heywood’s £10.3 million regeneration project. MP for Heywood and Middleton Jim Dobbin joined the...
The community-led Steering Group for Heywood’s Phoenix Centre has won the National Local Improvement Finance Trust award for Community Engagement. The group consists of...
Date Published 23/03/2009
I begin this week’s letter from Westminster with a plea for support for the campaign to help the Christie Cancer Charity get the £6.5million returned from the Financial Services...
The tragic death of Emma O’Kane will raise awareness about the dangers of pub violence, say her relatives. The 27-year-old mother-of-three died on Boxing Day 2008, after being...
An Emmerdale actor who lives in Heywood has been accused of assault. Luke Tittensor, of Rycroft Avenue, who plays Daz Eden in the ITV soap, has been accused of punching another...
A neighbour played a heroic part in the rescue of a 54-year-old man from a maisonette in 48 Bower Avenue, Smallbridge, Rochdale. She was returning from her neighbour’s house, when...
Date Published 22/03/2009
A father and son who severely neglected two dogs, one of which has died, have faced up to their crime. RSPCA officers found the suffering animals with fur missing in Heywood in...
Date Published 21/03/2009
A disused mill in Rochdale has been demolished and the surrounding area landscaped to pave the way for future investment. The Grove Mill on Oldham Road had fallen into severe...
Date Published 20/03/2009
The family of Emma O’Kane, who died after being hit with a glass bottle in a Heywood pub, have organised a special fundraising night in her honour. The barmaid and...
Rochdale residents are being encouraged to get fit and help local disadvantaged families at the same time. New customers to Link4Life fitness centres across the borough can...
Date Published 19/03/2009
Heywood & Middleton MP Jim Dobbin has supported a campaign to ensure fair water charges for local Scout Groups and other voluntary organisations. Water regulator Ofwat has...
Membership of a popular children’s activity club ion Heywood is still growing a year after it was formed. More and more children are joining in the fun at the Young Explorers’...
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale are hoping to improve the health of people in the borough by encouraging them to put less salt on their chips. Health officials have been...
Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin joined with top researchers from a London hospital to find out more about sight saving tests for glaucoma, a cause of blindness.
People in Heywood have until Friday (20 March) to have their say on how the council and police should spend £20,000 on improving community safety in the area. Heywood’s Young...
Date Published 18/03/2009
