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Firefighters currently remain at the scene after a fire raged through the former Turner Brothers site last night (Thursday 30 January). Around 35 firefighters tackled the...
Date Published 31/01/2014
Rochdale engineering apprentices took part in a competition arranged by Rochdale Training and went up against teams from across the North West. The Rochdale team came second in...
Date Published 30/01/2014
In the first brass band concert of the Dobcross Club 2014 season, Milnrow Band set a high standard for the bands booked to follow at this well known centre of brass banding. A...
Wood Street in Heywood has been chosen as the road that will be re-named after Victorian Cross hero, Anthony Palmer. Buried in Heywood Cemetery, Private Palmer was honoured by...
Heap Bridge Primary School in Heywood is planning to turn a World War 2 air raid shelter that they have in their grounds into a museum. The shelter, which was used by school...
Rochdale Boroughwide Housing has identified 191 housing tenants who have wrongfully been charged bedroom tax since April last year. In a loophole around the charge of bedroom...
Members of the Rochdale Environmental Action Group (REAG) cleaned Old Manchester Road on Saturday 25 January. One member of the group has recently bought a business on...
Stuart Sharples (27/11/84) has been sentenced to 32 months in prison and he will have to sign the Sex Offender’s Register indefinitely after he pleaded guilty to three counts of...
Footage of a man who sexually assaulted a teenage girl in Rochdale town centre last month has been released. The teenage girl first saw the man whilst she was shopping in B&M...
Northern Rail has revealed that Rochdale is a fare dodging hot spot. They found that the most common journey where people are caught travelling without a ticket was from Rochdale...
A Rochdale soldier has been honing his military skills in the freezing environment of the snow capped French Alps. Private Summander Hussain, 23, of Three Medical Regiment...
Date Published 29/01/2014
Heywood Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society made a 'sound' investment after receiving a welcome boost of £2,000 from Co-operative members in the area.
Molly Corrigan, a student at Beech House School, has been voted runner up for the Whitbread Memorial Prize after the ISA Academic Policy Committee met to adjudicate this year's...
Official data from the Office for National Statistics released today shows that the first estimate of GDP growth in Q4 2013 was 0.7% for the quarter (1.9% year-on-year) indicating...
David Tully foiled a car jacking this morning (Wednesday 29 January) after he rugby tackled a man attempting to take a van from Claire Jeffries, the Petrus Community Store...
Emma Bond has become the latest recipient of the Childer Award. The Rochdale Childer Award scheme was set up in 2003 with most of the boroughs schools getting involved. During...
Local residents are being asked to tell the council what sort of market they would like via a public consultation. A seven week consultation began at the start of January...
Plans to extend the East Lancashire Railway from Heywood to Castleton are part of a £4m plan set up by Rochdale Council as part of a future transport strategy for the...
Lindsay Eavis spent £4 on raffle tickets and won a £10,000 Peugeot 107 Allure. The ‘win a Car 4 Christmas’ raffle was part of a special initiative at the Pennine Acute Trust,...
Plans have been submitted to prepare the ground for a residential development on the Stansfield Mill site in Littleborough. The application has been received by Rochdale...
Bikeability Last week, children from Wilberforce class too part in the cycling proficiency lessons. Children were taught about hazards and how to use the roads with care when...
Neil Bates (9/1/58), from Heywood, pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit fraud and has been jailed for 12 months at a hearing on 27 January. The lorry driver, of...
Rochdale Hornets go head to head with partner club St Helens on Sunday (2 February), as the Super League outfit come to Spotland for a pre-season friendly (3pm Kick Off).
Many thanks to the Year 5 and 6 students of Belfield Community Primary School who joined us for our Victorian Melodrama Workshop this week. Students learnt about the acting styles...
A special ceremony to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day was held at the Phoenix Centre in Heywood on Monday 27 January. The service began with the re-dedication of the...
Oulder Hill represented Rochdale in the Greater Manchester Schools Badminton Competition last week and were very unfortunate not to qualify for the latter stages of the...
A plan to ban smoking in cars carrying children is due to be put to a vote in the House of Lords later. Labour peers are to table an amendment to the Children and Families...
Residents, businesses and local groups are being asked if they have plans in 2014 and beyond for marking the 100th anniversary of the First World War. Rochdale Borough Council...
The UK government is stalling over young driver safety policy, despite compelling evidence that it would prevent casualties and save money, argue public health experts, road...
IVF was developed for women with fallopian tube disorders and severe male infertility, but in recent years it has been applied to wider conditions, including unexplained...
