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Hornets schools programme has now started in earnest so look out for Darren Abram at the following schools over the next few weeks: Boarshaw, Alkrington Moss, St John's Thornham,...
Date Published 09/02/2007
Popular Norden Councillor Wera Hobhouse has been selected as the Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for the Heywood and Middleton at the next General...
Date Published 08/02/2007
Two Heywood businesses are seeing an increase in trade thanks to a special grant aimed at sprucing up the town centre.The Property Improvement Programme (PIP), which is...
Traffic chaos brought Heywood and Middleton to a stand still in the evening rush hour after part of the northbound carriageway of the M66 was closed while officers dealt with an...
Date Published 07/02/2007
Comple@t Internet Café and Coffee Shop has become Middleton’s First Fairtrade Café, just in time for Fairtrade Fortnight 2007 - 26 February to 11 March 2007.Comple@t is based...
Date Published 06/02/2007
Workers have the right to a decent minimum wage and I am determined that they get it. To those employers avoiding the minimum wage, the message is clear. Don’t pay it and you’ll...
‘Operation Sleeve’ saw 20 people arrested for offences ranging from supply or possession of drugs, burglary, robbery, vehicle crime and copyright offences.In addition, police...
Date Published 05/02/2007
Police in Rochdale are appealing for witnesses after an elderly lady was robbed in Heywood on Monday 29 January.The 82-year-old from the Heywood area was walking along West...
Date Published 02/02/2007
Kingsway councillors Mark Birkett and Dale Mulgrew are seeking comments on the subject of the "unacceptable situation regarding police numbers in Rochdale". Their position is...
Date Published 01/02/2007
Development on Kingsway is moving forward considerably with the first building constructions on Plot E being granted planning permission on 19 December 2006. This was for the...
Date Published 31/01/2007
The future site of the new Joint Faith School in Heywood will now be subject to input by the people of Heywood following the Council Cabinet decision to remove any preference for...
Date Published 30/01/2007
Councillor Alan Taylor, the Leader of Rochdale Council, has been criticised for driving to a meeting of the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) to discuss...
Date Published 29/01/2007
Heywood Councillor Peter Rush has condemned the closure of Heywood Police Station, after it was closed all day on Monday 22 January. Councillor Rush was visiting on behalf of a...
Date Published 26/01/2007
A team of local health and social care staff and service users have been nominated for a prestigious Health & Social Care Awards 2006.The team have been short listed from...
Date Published 24/01/2007
No-one doubts that 2007 will be a year of great significance in politics. The country will have a new Prime Minister in Gordon Brown whose steady hand has guided the British...
Date Published 23/01/2007
Heywood & Middleton MP Jim Dobbin has been been very impressed with the good work being done by one of his constituents, Mary Jenkins, to promote breast screening locally and...
A “pink pram posse” of mums from across Greater Manchester have helped raise £600 to back special breastfeeding support sessions and a breast care charity.The fundraising pram...
Date Published 19/01/2007
Ambitious plans to transform secondary education in Rochdale borough will be reviewed by councillors before the end of January.The plans, part of the Government’s Building...
Date Published 17/01/2007
BBC1, 7.30pm, Friday 19 January sees the airing of a film examining John Peel’s links with Rochdale – Mr Peel worked in Rochdale in 1959.In 1970 he bought recording equipment...
Date Published 16/01/2007
A brand new Heywood, Middleton & Rochdale Primary Care Trust (HMRPCT) web site that will inform and advise the public about primary care in the area and promote healthy lifestyles...
Date Published 13/01/2007
Rochdale Borough’s Cabinet Member for Environment and Sustainability, Councillor Wera Hobhouse, has revealed the cost of dropped litter and fly tipping in the Borough is a...
Date Published 12/01/2007
Help is at hand for breastfeeding mums in the north east of Greater Manchester – thanks to a pioneering midwife and a ‘win’ on the National Lottery.Val Finigan, infant feeding...
A former headteacher honoured by the Queen for her contribution to education is sharing her skills with schools throughout the Rochdale borough.Pat Johnson, who received an...
Date Published 11/01/2007
Patients who have trouble breathing will receive early warnings to changes in the weather that may worsen their symptoms.Those people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary...
Date Published 10/01/2007
Pat and I had a most enjoyable Christmas with our two sons, two daughters, their wives and husbands and our five grandsons aged from 15 years to 15 months. It was chaos for a...
Middleton’s leisure centre remains in the top 20 per cent of leisure facilities in the country after retaining its Quest status.Quest status means that the centre, which...
Date Published 08/01/2007
The rise in the legal age for buying cigarettes and tobacco, that will come into force in October 2007, has been welcomed by Rochdale Council and Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale...
A year since smoking on Primary Care Trust (PCT) premises was banned sees the introduction of new national legislation that means smoking in public places will also be forbidden -...
The Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts confirmed the provisional decision it made in September to adopt Option One from the public consultation.The changes will affect...
Date Published 06/01/2007
More than £163 million will be invested in new and modernised secondary schools in the Rochdale borough over the next six years.That is the result of a bid by Rochdale Council...
Date Published 03/01/2007
