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Big Sing, this Saturday night, May 16, . . . 'Saints Alive', a musical by Roger Jones which we are putting on in Church as a celebration of Pentecost with the United Christian...
Date Published 13/05/2015
Unfortunately our football teams lost this week to Holy Trinity. The A team lost 2 – 0 and the B Team lost 1- 0. Our Sewing Club has been very successful, and Mrs Rigby will...
Men benefit indirectly from vaccinating girls against human papillomavirus (HPV), but remain at risk of cancers associated with the virus, finds a study from The Netherlands...
The benefits of psychiatric drugs have been exaggerated and the harms underplayed due to poor trial designs, argues one expert in The BMJ. But another expert and a patient contend...
A Maypole Merriment weekend was held in Hare Hill Park, Littleborough over the weekend (Saturday 9 May and Sunday 10 May). Organised by LEAF (Littleborough Events and...
Date Published 12/05/2015
An annual tea party organised by the Friends of Springhill Hospice at Home group was held today (Tuesday 12 May) at The Peacock Room in The Crimble restaurant. The event,...
The Growth Project, a joint initiative between Hourglass and Rochdale and District Mind, has recently completed its seventh growing season. Throughout the season the project...
Family, friends and teammates of Tom Thornton took part in the Greater Manchester 10k run on Sunday (10 May) to raise money for The Tom Thornton Fund.
Springhill Hospice is providing solicitors with an opportunity to reach more of the local community and potentially meet new customers with their new event, 'Make a Will Week'.
Mehran Khan and Husnain Ali, of Hamer Amateur Boxing Club, travelled to Selby to take on Beck Emery and Jake Winfindale, two local favourites. This small, intimate setting was...
Hamer Amateur Boxing Club has three more champions. Adam Earnshaw, 12, won the North West Region 32.5kg Minor Schoolboy title after receiving a unanimous point’s victory over...
The Balderstone High School class of 85’ reunited on Saturday (9 May) after 30 years. Organised by class member Lyndon Holt, the reunion saw around 38 former pupils come...
Toploader will be playing the main stage at this year's Feel Good Festival. With a string of top 20 singles including ‘Achilles heel’, ‘Only for a while’ and ‘Time of my life’...
Local residents, businesses and members of the community are invited to public consultation events on a proposed new solar farm at Chamber House Farm, Heywood.
It was Aristotle who famously remarked, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”, and those ten words sum up to perfection Fothergill & Whittles semi final triumph over...
Commenting on the latest IoP results, Ms Lee Hopley, Chief Economist at EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, said: “Today’s IoP follows the less than encouraging picture emerging...
Performance Doorset Solutions (PDS) has recently provided their flush fitting casement windows for a Grade 2 listed conservation project of an old stone cottage overlooking...
Danny Fitzsimons, the security guard from Middleton who murdered two ex-servicemen, Paul McGuigan and Darren Hoare, in Iraq was not vetted properly by his employer, ArmorGroup, a...
Littleborough fundraisers Kath and Andy O’Donnell have been thanked for all of their fundraising efforts for Cancer Research UK at a special reception. Kath and Andy have been...
Peter Gurney has been named the winner of the Mayor of Rochdale’s ‘Name the Baby Donkey’ competition.
Wardle Rifleman Thomas Ainsworth was remembered on the anniversary of his death on Friday 8 May. Rifleman Ainsworth was killed on 8 May 1915 in France at the age of 25. He...
England International Bowler and Heywood Cricket Club cricketer, Kate Cross made history on Sunday (10 May) as she took eight wickets in a Lancashire men’s league match. Cross...
After a three year campaign by local residents and councillors, the upstairs room in Milnrow Library is due to be re-opened to the public at the end of May.
One lane closed and stop-start traffic on M62 in both directions between J22, A672 (Rishworth Moor) and J21, A640 (Milnrow), because of a multi-vehicle accident, due to an...
Date Published 11/05/2015
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the voters of Heywood, Middleton, Castleton, Norden and Bamford for returning me as your MP. I’m particularly pleased to have increased...
NatWest has created a new fund for charities, social enterprises, community groups, state-funded schools and colleges across the UK and Ireland, to enable them to support...
Wynsors World of Shoes has chosen the NSPCC to be its charity partner for the next two years. Wynsors has over 40 stores across the North of England and is encouraging its...
A new survey from YouGov, commissioned by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and Intern Aware, has revealed that North West businesses are more likely to...
Responding to the announcement that Sajid Javid has been appointed new Business Secretary, Darrell Matthews, North West Region Director at EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation,...
Saturday Premiership: Heywood 107, Clifton 108-3 (Nitin Srivastava 70no); Monton and Weaste 76, Norden 179-5 (Simon Harman 83); Royton 113 (Geeth Alwiss 55, Mo Bux 4-40),...
