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Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) taken regularly for six months after a knee or hip replacement seems to cut the risk of repeat surgery by around 40%, indicates a large...
Date Published 22/01/2014
Long term exposure to particulate matter in outdoor air is strongly linked to heart attacks and angina, and this association persists at levels of exposure below the current...
Date Published 21/01/2014
Mortality is higher, and emergency treatment takes longer, for heart attack patients who arrive at hospital during the night or at weekends compared with regular hours, finds a...
Experiencing a family death in childhood is associated with a small but significant increase in risk of psychosis, suggests a paper published today (21 January) on bmj.com....
The launch of the Greater Manchester Electric Vehicle (GMEV) scheme has seen the introduction of three town centre stations at River Street Car Park, the Town Hall Car Park and...
The CLA is launching a search to reward the unsung heroes responsible for maintaining some of the North’s most iconic rural landscapes. The CLA Long Service Awards are a long...
The number of ‘zombie businesses’ in the North has fallen to under 3,000 from a peak of 24,500 in November 2012, according to research by R3, the insolvency trade body. The...
Four blocks of one bedroom flats on Daventry Road, Kirkholt were to go under the bulldozer last year but Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) scrapped the demolition plans as more...
You’ve heard about football scouts and rugby scouts, these little known and rarely seen spotters of talent? Well who’s ever heard of a choir scout, a spotter of talented...
Littleborough Events and Association Forum (LEAF), is celebrating this week after discovering they are one of Skipton Building Society’s ‘Big 160, securing a slot as a winner in...
Local charities, community and voluntary organisations are receiving funding for a range of health-related projects. A total of 99 projects have secured one-off grants of...
With the 2014 RBS Six Nations championship kicking off on Saturday 1 February, TV Licensing is reminding pubs and clubs in Rochdale to make sure they are correctly covered by a TV...
Fostering Solutions, one of the leading independent fostering agencies in the UK, has deployed an IP Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) solution from Zen Internet, one of the UK’s...
Middleton Town Centre Nightly road closures on the following streets - Burton Street, Eastway, Factory Street, Limetrees Road, Long Street, Market Place, Oldham Road, Wood...
A gang armed with a crowbar and a piece of concrete paving slab demanded money and threatened to attack those inside Milnrow Cricket Club - which included the manager and four...
A mysterious disease has killed 13 dogs across Britain in recent months. Vets say the disease - which leads to kidney failure - is similar to "Alabama Rot", which was first...
A quarter of young people in the UK now live with their parents, official figures show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said more than 3.3 million adults between the...
Greater Manchester Police is cutting some of its highest-ranking officers to save money and the role of chief superindent in Bury and Rochdale will be merged. Bury will lose...
Y2 had a walk around Littleborough to learn more about their local environment. The children were amazed at how many old buildings there are, in our village! They have drawn some...
For the next few weeks our themed services are on the subject "I am". This Sunday it will be a Communion Service led by Rev. Canon Sharon Jones at 11.00am. With Sunday Club...
Middleton Select Amateur Boxing Club is hoping for another successful year in 2014 to keep up their winning tradition. A handful of youngsters have already gone through the...
Detectives are re-appealing for the public’s help in tracing a wanted sex offender from Burnley who could be in Rochdale. Dilshad Miah, 32, had been living in the town but is...
Matterson Cranes based in Rochdale has helped the Vintage Carriages Trust by restoring some old locomotive railway jacks. The company, which usually works with Network Rail and...
Ali Zahir and staff at Kings Taxis are hoping to encourage local businesses to donate money to help towards an ambulance for Syria. The aim of the fundraising is to get local...
Many residents in Littleborough believe the proposed Tesco will be built despite their objections. The decision will be made at the Regulatory Committee meeting on Tuesday 28...
Greg Couzens, Rochdale town centre hairdresser, and vice chairman of Rochdale High Street Foundation, has been taken to task for breach of copyright after using a photograph of...
The first stages of the demolition of the old bus station and the black box are being undertaken. Demolition should take 34 weeks to complete and the bus station will be the...
Date Published 20/01/2014
Tram testing has been taking place along Drake Street to check that the signaling and communication systems are working correctly. Peter Cushing, Transport for Greater...
Rochdale Borough Council has instructed a QC to review allegations about abuse said to have occured at Knowl View School, Rochdale, which closed in 1995. Andrew Warnock QC...
A River Island store worker in the Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre has kicked booze into touch for the entire month of January. Nicola Macneilage says her abstinence from...
