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Alkrington residents living around Cheltenham Road and Kingsway are campaigning to have their pavements repaired and reconstructed. They have highlighted the severe...
Date Published 07/10/2009
Consultations over a major set of infrastructure improvements which will help to improve bus services from Middleton through to Manchester city centre are underway. Greater...
Date Published 06/10/2009
Rochdale Online can reveal that the cost to taxpayers of the Council Communications Team is over £1million per year. The cost of staff alone in the current financial year is...
Date Published 05/10/2009
Rochdale Borough Council, NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale and New Heart for Heywood NDC are wasting public money again by paying a celebrity to open a new building in...
An employee at a Middleton bookmakers denied a robber's demand for cash despite having a gun pointed at him during an attempted armed robbery. At about 2.30pm on Friday (25...
Date Published 30/09/2009
Police in Rochdale have issued a warning to motorists following a number of stone throwing attacks on vehicles. Since April there have been ten incidents where motorists have...
Date Published 29/09/2009
Leader of Labour on Rochdale Borough Council, Councillor Colin Lambert has called for the resignation of the Cabinet Member for Regeneration on Rochdale Council Councillor Sharif...
In the week that Rochdale Borough Council and Rochdale Development Agency are being castigated for promoting low wages in Rochdale, Rochdale Online understands that the Council...
Rochdale businesses have just one week left to get their hands on £600,000 worth of ‘Creative Credits’ that will be given to the first wave of applicants. The UK’s innovation body...
Rochdale Borough Council has revealed that eight providers are to be given contracts to provide home support over the coming years. Council cabinet member for health and social...
Date Published 28/09/2009
Police in North Manchester have issued a picture of a 22-year-old man who has been recalled to prison. Officers are appealing for the public's help in tracing Craig Anthony...
Date Published 24/09/2009
Two would-be robbers threatened to shoot the secretary of Middleton Conservative Club earlier this month. Just after 9.30pm on Thursday 3 September, two men got into the Long...
Date Published 21/09/2009
A former British soldier accused of murdering two workmates in Iraq, has been dismissed by the security firm he worked for. Ex–paratrooper Danny Fitzsimons, 29, who lives in...
Date Published 17/09/2009
Three men have been sentenced to a combined ten years in jail after two men were stabbed and another was slashed in the face on Christmas Day last year. Stephen Cleworth, 24,...
A 31-year-old man from Middleton has died in hospital after a serious road traffic collision in the early hours of Monday morning (7 September). Ian Jones was driving a black...
Date Published 09/09/2009
A multimedia learning programme for unemployed and low skilled individuals and a support group for African families are to benefit from the Big Lottery Fund’s Awards for All...
Date Published 08/09/2009
Following an article regarding Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) achieving Digital UK’s Homes Set for Digital award a Rochdale Online reader queried ALL the communal aerials on...
Date Published 06/09/2009
The Rochdale Legal Advice Partnership helps solve peoples problems which are central to their lives. These include: debt, consumer issues, benefits, housing, legal matters,...
Date Published 01/09/2009
All RBH tenants and their families are invited to the RBH Celebration and Information Day Saturday 3 October 10am to 3pm at Rochdale Town Hall. It's an opportunity to celebrate...
More than 150 people have been so badly attacked by dogs in the last five years they have needed hospital treatment. Twenty-nine casualties, including four under 18s, were...
Rochdalians are being urged to give blood now to save lives this winter — and have been told to bring along a relative, friend and colleague too. The dip in winter donations is...
Changes to the way the post is delivered are in the pipeline, with plans for posties to do their rounds in vans. The image of the postman on the beat who struggles with his...
Half of all over 55s believe they are either too old or too ill to be organ donors. Research into the reasons why people aren’t signed up to the NHS Organ Donor Registry found...
Moves to phase out all but energy-saving lightbulbs have been slammed by a North-West Euro-MP. Chris Nuttall, of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), has hit out at moves by the...
Four Greater Manchester Police officers and one member of police staff will face charges of misconduct in public office following allegations of the use of excessive force and...
The Healthy Futures roadshow which has been travelling the north east of Greater Manchester for the past three months has now reached an estimated 50,000 people. The roadshow aims...
Date Published 28/08/2009
Rochdale borough’s seven-year-olds are lagging behind at school. New figures show that 82 per cent of them reached the expected standard for their age in reading and 78 per...
Holidaymakers had an average of nine alcoholic drinks on every day of their summer break a new survey has revealed. The study — part of the Know Your Limits campaign — showed...
Dozens of babies across the area were so keen to come into the world they did not let their mums get to the labour ward before making their appearance. In 2008, 120 babies...
The number of people killed or injured on Greater Manchester’s roads has fallen by more than 70 a month in the last year, according to the Department for Transport. A total of...
