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Residents in Middleton are invited to meet their local Neighbourhood Policing Team while they shop this weekend. Middleton Neighbourhood Officers will be at Middleton Shopping...
Date Published 26/02/2009
A shopkeeper struggled with a gang of thieves armed with a machete during a robbery in Middleton on Saturday evening (21 February). The shopkeeper suffered a minor injury to...
An amateur footballer lashed out and punched an opposition player in the face so he could get a better position for a corner kick. Father-of-three Philip Cartmill, 30, of...
Surgeons are carrying out a growing number of stomach-stapling operations on dangerously overweight patients as obesity continues to spiral, official figures have revealed....
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale was recognised for its impressive patient and public engagement and partnership working during a recent independent review. The strengths...
Trading Standards has promised to crack down children buying cigarettes – after an investigation showed 50% of traders selling to underage parties. Traders in Rochdale, Middleton...
Date Published 25/02/2009
A former boxer was told he was fighting out of his league after being exposed as the secret mastermind of an £11 million bootleg gang which smuggled 72 million counterfeit...
Date Published 24/02/2009
Council tax in Rochdale is set to increase by 3.7% - which is the lowest increase for over a decade. This is a smaller increase than last year 3.8%, and Rochdale Borough Council...
Ofsted has praised Middleton Technology school as one of 12 secondaries in the country that are performing best in deprived areas. An Ofsted report highlights that the school's...
Final preparations are underway for Live Life, the big healthy living exhibition being staged at the Middleton Arena on Monday (2 March.) Admission to Live Life is free and...
Date Published 23/02/2009
A teenage boy who went missing from home following a police warrant has been found safe and well. Daniel Sharples disappeared from his Smallbridge home on Wednesday 4 February...
The annual pantomime of the friends of St Gabriel’s, Castleton, was up to the high standard of previous years; a remarkable feat because building work at the School on Vicarage...
Greater Manchester Police’s Rochdale division is promoting its five Neighbourhood Policing Teams who work across the borough. Rochdale North and South, the Pennine’s, Heywood...
The race is on for local amateur photographers to enter their pictures for the 2010 Springhill Hospice Rochdale Calendar. The calendar will include thirteen colour photographs...
Rochdale Borough Council is to take part in a pilot scheme aimed at creating a more efficient and transparent system of information sharing across health, social care and...
Date Published 22/02/2009
A man has been charged after a robbery at a post office in Middleton. Lee Shelley, 24, of no fixed abode has been charged with robbery and possession of a knife in a public...
Date Published 20/02/2009
Rochdale Council is to take part in a pilot aimed at creating a more efficient and transparent system of information sharing across health, social care and community support...
A teenage boy from Middleton has been convicted of stabbing a joinery student to death in Moston because of an argument over a computer games console. Shane Boyd, aged 16, of...
A 21-year old man from Middleton who pleaded guilty to section 47 assault and perverting the course of justice after he punched a 16-year old boy who had witnessed a murder, is...
Parliament has not been sitting this week but at the last Prime Minister’s Questions before the recess I asked the Prime Minister what steps the government had taken in making...
Date Published 19/02/2009
There were fears that a traditional Castleton school pantomime might be cancelled this year because of building work but it was alright on the night after organisers upped sticks...
A road-rage driver who mowed down a cyclist in a “moment of madness” and left him injured on the street has been spared jail. Mark Slack, 44, of Stakehill Lane, Middleton, had...
Date Published 18/02/2009
Rochdale’s division of Greater Manchester Police has two new Neighbourhood Policing Team Inspectors. Inspector Lin Houldershaw, formally Neighbourhood Inspector for the...
Date Published 17/02/2009
There’s no excuse not to improve your fitness after visiting next month's Live Life event on Monday 2 March. 1000 three month gym memberships will be given away, providing...
Three lucky winners have picked up their prizes after taking part in NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale’s largest health consultation. Rochdale residents Brian Bunnell, 71,...
Date Published 16/02/2009
Middleton Arena was the host this year for the Rochdale Borough Community Sports Awards which saw more than 60 nominees in 10 categories gather to hear who would walk away this...
There is anger in Heywood and Middleton over the decision of the Lib Dem Group to prevent the three Heywood councillors representing their electorate on Heywood and Middleton...
Date Published 13/02/2009
Following yesterday's news that the New Inn in Castleton is set to appear in the Campaign for Real Ale's good beer guide for a second year running, there is another good news...
There is renewed hope that the proposed town centre Sixth Form College will go ahead as planned following a summit meeting between Rochdale MP Paul Rowen, Heywood and Middleton MP...
Date Published 12/02/2009
Nine different charities and community organisations were presented with cheques from the Rotary Club of Middleton earlier this week. The rotary club entertained guests from...
