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On 10 February Wardle High School took part in the 29th Action Medical Youth Brass Band Entertainment Festival of Great Britain in Blackpool. The festival involved the groups...
Date Published 15/02/2013
On Wednesday afternoon this week LKS2 had their exit point on their current IPC Topic of ‘Fashion’. The finale of this was a fashion show for parents on Thursday morning which was...
Class 3 at St John with St Michael CE Primary School, Moss Side Street, Shawforth have celebrated in true Roman style with a day filled with Roman themed work and play including...
Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) has been short-listed for the UK Housing Awards 2013. The awards, which recognise outstanding work by housing organisations to improve the...
Unsafe practices on construction sites across Greater Manchester are being targeted as part of a national initiative being launched on Monday 18 February aimed at reducing death,...
The future of primary care could see GPs taking back out of hours care, according to Clare Gerada, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners in a roundtable discussion...
The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has taken the precautionary decision to close three medical wards at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury to visitors following an outbreak of...
The number of unpaid carers in England and Wales has reached 5.8 million - a rise of 600,000 since 2001, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said. Figures from 2011...
UK retail sales fell unexpectedly in January, confounding economists' expectations for a rise. Volumes fell 0.6% from December 2012, hurt by heavy snowfall, the Office for...
The image of Rochdale in the eyes of the nation was dealt a self-inflicted blow last night. Rochdale featured in a new prime time BBC television series, 'The Planners', an...
The discovery of an old photograph in a job lot from auction has prompted a search for information on a former football team called Rochdale Rovers.
A turf cutting ceremony has been held at St Cuthbert’s RC Business & Enterprise College in Rochdale to officially mark the start of work on the new high school.
More than 50 firefighters have spent the night battling a difficult blaze at a former asbestos factory but now have it under control. Local road closures remain in place and...
The ongoing horse meat scandal continues to cause disquiet and raise serious ethical questions, but it should also act as an important reminder as to why the Rochdale Co-operative...
Date Published 14/02/2013
Smoking bans are associated with a “consistent pattern of reduction in the risk of preterm delivery,” finds a study published on bmj.com today.
An unscheduled, bright-yellow works tram pulled into the Maclure Road tram stop just before 1.00pm today (14 February) carrying a party of disabled people with the intention of...
A man who sold stolen cars to unsuspecting owners and pocketed nearly £60,000 has been jailed. Matthew James Keogh (born 18/06/1980), of Newton Crescent, Middleton, pleaded...
Manager Keith Hill has strengthened his squad further with the addition of defender Michael Rose, subject to the relevant clearance from the Football League and FA. The...
“Let the path be open to talent.” Napoleon Bonaparte So, has Rochdale got talent? Of course it has. The recent report from Professor Greene of Birmingham University does...
As the next step in their pre season preparations Mayfield face Crosfields in a game dedicated to the memory of ex player Lloyd Walsh who died in November last year.
Secondary schools and colleges in Rochdale have come together to form the Pioneers Trust to further raise educational standards in the area. As the World Capital of...
Big Pedal The charity Sustrans is encouraging kids, parents and teachers to leave the car at home and get on their bikes and scooters for the school run between 28 February and...
Firefighters have urged the public to ensure their electrical appliances are not faulty after an LCD television set alight in Rochdale. Crews from Rochdale Fire Station were...
After a ten week lay off Fothergill & Whittles enjoyed a welcome return to ROAFL action with a 4-0 home win over Asia in the Sartori Sharpening Services Premier Division.
Twelve men have been convicted over the death of a man at a Rochdale nightclub in the early hours of Christmas Day in 2011. John Lee Barrett, 31, died from a stab wound to his...
The Rochdale Feel Good Festival will return this summer. The festival will include various warm up events prior to the main attractions in Rochdale town centre in August.
Date Published 13/02/2013
Figures released by the Office of National Statistics giving the latest inflation figures for the year to January, reveal that the Consumer Prices Index remained at 2.7% for the...
It started with a QES… Just a reminder that the first Quarterly Economic Survey of the year starts on Monday. We all know how important the QES is to businesses in our region,...
Three hundred and seventy seven vehicles were stopped and 75 people were searched today (Wednesday 13 February 2013) as part of Operation Alloy, a high profile operation to...
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