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Two women were robbed within half an hour of each other on Friday (8 May). Just before 9.00am, a 42-year-old woman was walking along Parkfields Flats towards Wood Street.
Date Published 13/05/2009
Cars heading for the three Oasis concerts at Heaton Park next month will be directed to a park and ride site off the M62. Around 210,000 people are expected to visit Heaton...
A new study into anti-depressant prescribing has revealed a North-South divide. It also shows prescription rates for anti-depressants have almost doubled over the last decade,...
Date Published 12/05/2009
Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin is urging people to make the most of free hearing checks as part of Deaf Awareness Week. The Labour MP has joined RNID’s call for people...
Date Published 11/05/2009
Rochdale Borough Council has threatened tougher action on fly-tipping after cleaning up piles of waste from Heights Lane. Overflowing bins and bags of rubbish have built up on...
Date Published 06/05/2009
Three quarters of teachers are not confident about what to do if a child in their class has a potentially life-threatening asthma attack. Figures from Asthma UK show 50% of...
Identity cards are not invasive and will help cut crime in the borough of Rochdale, a local MP has claimed. Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin welcomes a Government pilot...
All Middleton children’s centres have joined together for Family Week for a picnic event in Heaton Park. The event will take place on the 29th May at 12.30 – 3pm and will...
Date Published 05/05/2009
Members of Parliament are under the spotlight on expenses’ claims and this will continue until the publication of receipts in July. Most MPs make claims within the present rules....
Date Published 03/05/2009
Rumours of a case of swine flu supposedly confirmed in Rochdale are unfounded. A pupil at Oulder Hill School, who recently returned with his parents from a holiday in Mexico,...
Date Published 02/05/2009
From next week, every household in the country will receive a leaflet called 'Important Information About Swine Flu'. This leaflet will explain how people can protect...
Date Published 01/05/2009
Greater Manchester Police’s Rochdale Division and Elm Wood Primary School have come together in partnership to give local parents, guardians and teachers the chance to air their...
Date Published 29/04/2009
Rochdale entertainer Rod Barry raised £332 on his first step to raising thousands of pounds for Christie's new radiotherapy centre at the Royal Oldham Hospital. Rod was joined...
Date Published 27/04/2009
Mayor Robin Parker hosted an evening of entertainment with music as a celebration of St George at Rochdale Town Hall tonight (Saturday 25 April). Middleton Music Society Choir...
Date Published 25/04/2009
The sun shone in Middleton today (Saturday 25 April) as over 3,000 people turned out for the launch of the new Middleton Arena. Crowds gathered to meet Olympic great Sir Steve...
Rochdale Town Hall was transformed into a strict Victorian courtroom this weekend. Stern Judges, Police ‘Peelers’ and orphan degenerates from bygone years took over the...
Date Published 22/04/2009
Final preparations are underway at the Middleton Arena for the star-studded public launch being held this Saturday (25 April). Olympic great Sir Steve Redgrave CBE will join...
Date Published 21/04/2009
Staff at a Middleton hotel were threatened with a sledgehammer during a terrifying robbery on Friday night (17 April). Three masked robbers burst into the Premier Travel Inn...
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...
The Middleton Township Committee are inviting residents to the Middleton Arena on Monday 27 April to put forward their views on what should be included in the Township Plan, which...
‘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...
A suspected chemical spillage has coated a river in Middleton in a blanket of foam. Soap suds measuring around 150ft long by about 10ft deep were seen on the River Irk this...
Date Published 16/04/2009
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...
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...
A last minute change of career has paid dividends for an apprentice from Middleton after she was chosen from nearly 100 applicants to join Rochdale Borough Council’s...
Date Published 15/04/2009
Masked men tried to rob a Co-op store in Middleton in a stolen car. The attempted robbery happened at about 6.40am on Thursday 5 March 2009 as staff at the Co-op store on...
