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The Springhill Hospice shop in Heywood will be celebrating one year since it opened on Friday 12 September. Corks will be popping and the bubbly will be flowing when shop...
Date Published 09/09/2014
Members of the Heywood Township Committee have paid tribute to late Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin. At the meeting, held this evening (Monday 8 September) tributes were...
Date Published 08/09/2014
The meeting is opened with the announcement of MP Jim Dobbin’s death. A minute’s silence is held by councillors, officers and members of the public. Tributes to Jim are...
Morrisons are preparing to open a store in Rochdale Town Centre. The supermarket chain is hoping to develop a site on Smith Street into an M local store – a convenience style...
A 71-year-old man has had a lucky escape after being hit by a trailer in Heywood this afternoon (Monday 8 September). It is understood that the man was walking along Bridge...
MEP Paul Nuttall has reacted angrily to today's fares rise for Northern Rail customers. "As a result of the botched franchising of the West Coast line the government had to...
Rochdale film maker Zafar Iqbal will be premièring his third feature film ‘Jus Chillin’ at the Odeon Cinema in Rochdale on Monday 22 September. Zafar, who is a writer,...
Welcome back to another school year at Hamer. It has been fantastic to see all the children safe and well and in school this week. For those of you who celebrated Eid over the...
Organisers have hailed this year’s Whitworth Rushcart as one of the best of recent years. The annual event was held on Sunday 7 September in glorious late summer weather and...
Fozia Noreen, 27, from Rochdale and Simon Whitby, 24, also from Rochdale, were amongst 89 employees from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks who successfully climbed Ben Nevis, the...
Good progress is being made with the demolition of the Black Box, which started in June. The building is shrinking as it is deconstructed floor by floor and the...
Leading Ladies, a ladies fashion boutique selling the latest styles and trends, is part of the Rochdale Online Department Store. The boutique is run by Danni...
A collection of work by the late Littleborough artist Ada Eastwood has sold at auction for £3,500. 20 pieces of work by the artist were snapped up at an auction at the Central...
The sun shone on Heywood yesterday (Sunday 7 September) as people lined the streets and filled Queen’s Park for the annual Heywood Charities Fete and Parade. Starting on...
Horse riders and members of the public gathered at St Anne’s Academy yesterday (Sunday 7 September) to protest against the proposed housing development at Hollin Lane and Langley...
From 1 October the vast majority of UK employers could incur fines from the taxman for late returns under the Real Time Information (RTI) system, ACCA (the Association of...
Norden second team dismissed Unsworth seconds for 148. Unsworth were going well at one stage on 105 for three, but the introduction of Paul Morrell to the attack saw wickets...
Norden completed a clean sweep of the Lake Garage Central Lancashire League’s major trophies when they claimed two titles on Sunday. With the JW Lees Bitter Wood Cup, Burton...
Saturday Premiership: Clifton 152-6 (Andy Griffiths 47), Heywood 142-7 (Danny Pawson 55, Ben Chapman 5-46) – 25 overs match. All other games abandoned.
Rochdale Boroughwide Housing has been shortlisted to be crowned the country’s top landlord - and it wants your help to clinch the honour. The mutual housing society, the first...
Yearsley Logistics has been shortlisted at the upcoming European Supply Excellence awards to be held on 5 November 2014 at the London Hilton. The European Supply Chain...
With 15 minutes of this Kingstone Press Division One game played, Mayfield were showing a case of the jitters, 10 points down and not really showing any of the class for which...
As part of the Rochdale Heritage Weekend the church will be open on Sunday from 11.00am - 4.00pm and we will be delighted to welcome visitors. We have one of the few remaining...
We would like very much to welcome everyone back at the beginning of this warm Autumn term. We have many new children and staff, and hope they will enjoy our happy, friendly...
The 2014 annual Stray Dogs Survey released by Dogs Trust today (8 September), the UK’s largest dog welfare charity, shows that 15,762 stray and abandoned dogs were handled by...
Residents from across the borough as well as councillors for Heywood have been reacting to the shock news that Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin has died. Councillor Colin...
Date Published 07/09/2014
Jim Dobbin, Labour MP for Heywood and Middleton, has died aged 73. It is understood Jim died suddenly whilst on a Parliamentary trip in Poland. His wife Pat is believed to have...
Peter Vincenti scored a brace Rochdale thrashed Crawley Town at Broadfield Stadium. Matt Done continued his goal scoring streak with a superb finish from the edge of the area...
Quintessentially British, fish and chips, England's contribution to the fast food revolution. A lightly battered fresh cod with 'just fried' chips married with a home made...
Date Published 06/09/2014
Bradley Hardman has won the European Junior Open Golf Championship. Bradley, 16, who has been playing golf from the age of two, competed against almost 100 golfers to secure...