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Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Community Healthcare has developed a handbook to help patients that have cancer along their journey. The Cancer Handbook is a new guide to local...
Date Published 05/02/2010
Hundreds of families with school age children in the Borough of Rochdale could benefit from a new scheme offering a free laptop and broadband access. The scheme, which has been...
Date Published 04/02/2010
Did you meet the love of your life on a bus? First Manchester is looking for passengers who met their perfect partner on board to help spread the love this Valentine’s Day. The...
Date Published 03/02/2010
The Government is facing a series of national strikes by hundreds of thousands of civil servants in the run–up to the general election in a bitter row over cuts to compensation...
House prices in the North-West more than doubled over the last decade, new figures show. The statistics show that northern regions of the UK saw the strongest house price...
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) North West has renewed its call for teenagers and young adults to protect themselves against mumps after new figures show the region to be the...
Labour Group Leader on Rochdale Borough Council, Councillor Colin Lambert has hit out at the Lib Dem Council's plan to close four of the borough's care homes. Councillor Lambert...
NHS compensation claims at the Pennine Acute Trust, which runs Rochdale Infirmary, are the third highest in the country. A total of £3.14 million was paid out for claims made to...
Date Published 02/02/2010
Passengers flying from Manchester Airport may now be body scanned — and could be thrown off their flight if they refuse. The move was announced by Transport Secretary Lord...
Greater Manchester Police’s computer system has been crippled by a costly virus. Officers have been cut off from a national criminal database and other criminal justice systems...
Council Tax in the Borough of Rochdale is set to rise by close to 4 per cent, despite inflation at virtually zero per cent, thousands of redundancies locally and pay freezes and...
Households in the Borough have to recycle batteries from today under new EU rules. All waste batteries will have to be recycled under the new batteries directive. It aims to...
Date Published 01/02/2010
Communities are being given a powerful new way to fix local problems under new proposals to strengthen the ability of councils to scrutinise all local public services. A new...
Many people are aware that salt can damage their health, but do not know it is linked to serious health conditions such as stroke, heart disease, osteoporosis, stomach cancer,...
Today (Monday 1 February), Greater Manchester Police is supporting the official launch of Action Fraud, a national reporting centre. Led by The National Fraud Authority (NFA),...
More than one in 10 criminals across Greater Manchester were let off with a fine after being found guilty of committing a crime punishable with a prison sentence. Last year...
Date Published 30/01/2010
A man is wanted by police in Rochdale after breaching his licence. Jonathan Leonard Irlam (16/06/1982) from the Middleton area was convicted of assault in 2007. He was...
Date Published 29/01/2010
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) North West is urging people with the “winter vomiting bug” to help limit the spread of the virus to vulnerable patients after an upsurge of...
Sunday’s Premier League football match between Manchester United and Arsenal will be the world’s first live 3D TV sports broadcast, Sky said today. Football fans at nine pubs in...
Date Published 28/01/2010
Detectors caught 417,000 people watching TV without the correct licence in 2009. The total includes 1,000 in Rochdale. Phil Reed, TV Licensing spokesman, said: “On behalf of...
Cross-border criminals are being targeted by a new Seek and Arrest team created by Greater Manchester Police. Burglars, robbers and car thieves that move across different...
My last letter from Parliament highlighted the cold weather payments and gave advice on how to claim it for those who qualified. The Government tries very hard to alert pensioners...
Teachers are a step closer to boycotting this year’s SATs. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has announced that they are...
Date Published 27/01/2010
Bus spotters are welcome at the Borough's bus stations — but must obey safety rules when taking photographs, a transport boss says. Greater Manchester Integrated Transport...
Jobless youths in the Borough of Rochdale have been promised work or training under a Government drive to protect a generation of young people from the “scarring effects” of...
Greater Manchester’s Crown Prosecution Service is one of the slowest in the country for deciding whether a case should go ahead or not. A Freedom of Information request has...
Patients who have been assaulted are adding to the pressures put on Accident and Emergency departments on Friday and Saturday nights, according to new figures. Hospital records...
MP for Milnrow and Newhey and minister for the North-West Phil Woolas has welcomed figures which show the UK is out of recession — but warned against withdrawing Government...
A major survey of 18,500 residents of the North West highlights the crucial role of mental wellbeing in improving people’s lives. According to the results the survey, which...
A pound a week - that's how much on average Greater Manchester's award-winning Fire and Rescue Service will cost local taxpayers this year, following the release of this year's...
