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Three Middleton men were part of a group of thieves responsible for a six-week crime spree and are due to be sentenced next month. Christopher Carroll, 19, of Yewdale Drive,...
Date Published 14/04/2009
Over the school holidays, children have been busy making bunny face masks and other crafts to get in the Easter mood. Workshops have been taking place in libraries and have...
Date Published 09/04/2009
More sporting stars are lined up for the launch of Middleton Arena on Saturday 25 April as the venue prepares its biggest event to date. The event, which is open to the public,...
A Rochdale man is hoping to raise thousands of pounds for Christie's new radiotherapy centre at the Royal Oldham Hospital, and Rochdale Online are backing him all the...
Police have issued video footage of a little girl’s first birthday in a bid to trace the owners of a suspected stolen video camera. The video camera was found when officers...
Date Published 08/04/2009
Work on building the £17.6M St Anne’s Academy in Middleton is underway. Principle Eric Jackson joined pupils, council staff, contractors and representatives from the Diocese of...
Easter. What’s it all about? As thousands of us across the borough look forward to a long weekend putting our feet up and eating chocolate eggs, Rochdale Online reporter KIRSTY...
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale (HMR) is hosting an NHS Choice Roadshow in the borough from Tuesday 14 to Saturday 18 April so that everyone in the area can find out about the...
Date Published 07/04/2009
I think it is important to make sure that I tell people what is going on at Westminster as it affects people’s lives. This month some very important changes which I supported and...
Members of Alkrington Community Centre were given a keep fit class with a difference. The group of 40 were being shown exercising routines by their local Police Community...
Date Published 06/04/2009
There are fewer burglaries happening nowadays compared to five years ago but the council and the police say that it remains a problem that needs to be addressed. Peter Egan,...
Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin has signed a parliamentary motion to relieve pub landlords who are tied into expensive contracts with brewers.
Troubled teens are being sent on “surviving your parents” courses, funded by Rochdale Borough Council. Young people and parents from Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale have signed...
The future of Hopwood Hall College’s redevelopment plans are uncertain according to a report into the collapse of the Government’s multi-billion-pound college building...
Date Published 03/04/2009
The controversial move of maternity, new born baby and children’s services away from Rochdale Infirmary will not take place until the winter of 2011/2012. As part of the...
Longfield Road in Spotland is the latest site to receive the Big Clean treatment from Rochdale Council after members of the Spotland Tenants and Residents Association nominated...
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale (NHS HMR) has revealed which providers will deliver four new GP practices and a GP-led health centre planned for the borough. The four new...
Three hundred young people from across Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale enjoyed an evening at Honey Nightclub in Rochdale Town Centre for the Project X under 18’s club...
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...
Date Published 02/04/2009
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...
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...
This week has been the last week Parliament has been sitting before the Easter recess and the legislative programme has been very light. I’ve had two oral questions – the first...
Date Published 01/04/2009
Middleton solicitor Peter Carey has taken over as President of Rochdale Local Chamber Council. Mr Carey has been a resident of Rochdale for the last 15 years, but is Middleton...
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
An elderly shopkeeper had a knife held to his throat during a robbery in Middleton last month. At 2pm on Thursday 29 January the robber went into the shop on Bowness Road...
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...
A man has been bailed in connection with a collision in which a Middleton man died. Pedestrian Sean Keane, 23, from Alkrington, was hit by a Seat Leon on Townley Street...
Parents are being offered extra help and advice after a child caught Measles in Middleton. Fears grew that the child could be infectious and may have made it more likely for other...
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 grief-stricken sister of a hit and run victim has paid tribute to her “best friend”. The body of Sean Keane, 23, was found by police in Middleton on Saturday night (28...
