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Parklands House on Falinge Road has closed its doors after repeatedly failing to meet standards. The home, which was recently declared inadequate by the Care Quality Commission...
Date Published 23/01/2015
Ongoing issues at Rochdale Crematorium means families are being forced to wait weeks to cremate their loved ones. The waiting list at the crematorium has grown so long because...
Charlie Holden, a popular schoolboy from Middleton has died suddenly at home. Charlie, 15, who was a pupil at Cardinal Langley RC High School was found in the bath at his home...
Tobacco Free Futures and the British Dental Health Foundation have given a warm welcome to the government announcement that it will put Regulations on the standardised ‘plain’...
It’s not too late to prepare your home for winter and prevent the misery of a burst frozen pipe. That’s the message from United Utilities as temperatures drop.
Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce has released the results of its latest Quarterly Economic Survey (QES), which indicate strong growth at the end of 2014. The Chamber’s...
The College of Policing has published analysis of police work across the country. It shows in the past five years the number of police officers has fallen by 11% - Greater...
A play written by Littleborough playwright, Luke Walker has been selected for HOME’s Re:Play Festival. The Tongue Twister, which premiered at Manchester’s 24:7 Theatre Festival...
Littleborough Prosecution Society held their 140th Annual General Meeting on Friday 9 January at Littleborough Cricket Club and donated £280 to the Hare Hill House Project
Local IT company Sysop, from Heywood, will be working with The University of Huddersfield to support a three year programme, designed to achieve a responsive IT environment that...
Councillors have passed a motion with regards to agency work and zero hours contracts seeking to ensure that the workers of the borough are no longer exploited.
Mecca Bingo in Rochdale Town Centre held a onesie charity event on Monday (19 January) to help customers banish the January blues. Originally identified in 2005, the third...
A group of residents from Littleborough are hoping to raise money to improve the village’s Christmas lights. The group want to raise funds to put lighting along the buildings...
A petition has been launched to honour Rochdale boxer Johnny Butterworth with blue plaque. The blue plaque, which is a heritage symbol used to commemorate a link between a...
Rochdale Council is set to remove more bins from residents after having already removed 5,112 bins from houses across the borough. The second phase of an operation to target...
The scale of phone hacking inside Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) may have been larger than at newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch, according to details given at a High Court...
Former Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin was remembered by friends and former colleagues at a Roman Catholic Mass on Wednesday 14 January. Held in St Margaret’s Church,...
Date Published 22/01/2015
Wednesday 21 January A minutes silence is held in honour of former councillor Bernard Schofield. Councillor Robert Clegg is congratulated by Mayor Wardle on receiving his...
Green Vale Homes has been criticised by Whitworth residents after it emerged that they were not gritting walkways to and from flats on Tong Lane. The flats, home to several...
Around £8,000 worth of tools have been stolen from an industrial unit in Heywood. The incident occurred on Monday 19 January between 6pm and 9pm when an unknown offender used a...
Former Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin died after drinking a lethal amount of Polish spirits during a European trip, an inquest has heard. His cause of death was given as...
A jewellers on Milkstone Road was the target of an armed robbery this afternoon (Thursday 22 January). Police were called to Naz Jewellers at 12:45pm to reports of an armed...
A veterans’ charity is mobile thanks to a grant from the Ministry of Defence which enabled them to buy a crew van. Veterans In Communities works throughout East Lancashire,...
Congratulations to all the cast in 'Annie', backstage support, front of house, staff and musicians. The production was both professional and outstanding. Liz McInnes MP for...
Onesie/Pyjama Day Please join in the fun and support the fundraising day tomorrow. A donation of £1 would be good but a donation of any size would be appreciated. The RSPCA is...
Recorded crime figures show that crime has risen in Greater Manchester over the 12 months from September 2013 to September 2014, with overall recorded crime rising by 6% per...
From 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015, Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council will collect an estimated £60.60million in business rates of which they will keep £29.14million to spend...
A wealth of useful information to keep families safe and well was provided at a special event at Deeplish Primary School. A range of different organisations came together for...
A group of 92 A Level maths and further maths students from Rochdale Sixth Form College recently took part and excelled in the UK Senior Maths Challenge. The challenge, which...
Local school children have helped create Rochdale’s own version of The Tower of London’s striking World War One tribute by planting 420 ceramic poppies in the Rochdale Memorial...
