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Defra's £2.3billion investment in flood risk management continues to discriminate against rural areas in the North at risk of flooding, the CLA has claimed.
Date Published 08/02/2013
A Middleton flat has been damaged after carelessly discarded smoking materials set light to rubbish outside. Firefighters from Blackley and Heywood were called to the ground...
Kind-hearted firefighters from Heywood have donated food to local families after winning a hamper for doing so well in a green competition against colleagues. On Wednesday, 6...
A prestigious European award was presented to North West-based ENWORKS at a ceremony in Brussels last week (Thursday 31 January). The environmental support service, which...
Parents across the region are being urged to vaccinate their children against measles with reported cases in the North West soaring.
Photographers are being invited to enter the GMP Museum Amateur Photography Competition to celebrate English Tourism Week 2013. The competition launches on Tuesday 12 February...
The number of deaths and liver transplants due to paracetamol overdoses has significantly reduced thanks to UK legislation to make pack sizes smaller, a paper published today...
Date Published 07/02/2013
The administrators of HMV have said that 66 of the music and DVD retailer's stores will close over the next two months, including the Rochdale store in the Exchange Shopping...
Dale will be without striker Bobby Grant, who starts a four-match suspension following his red card against Chesterfield last weekend. It was Grant's second dismissal of the...
Fears that Sir Cyril Smith was sexually abusing boys were reported to police four years before an investigation was opened, it has been claimed. Social worker Lyndon Price said...
Students were offered lessons with a difference on Tuesday 5 February as Wardle High School saw the Police and members of the Prison Service attend the school and run a programme...
The Children’s Observation and Assessment Unit at Fairfield General Hospital is to remain temporarily closed until the end of February 2013 when the situation will be reviewed.
Rochdale is a great place to do business was the key message at an economic forum seminar attended by over 70 of the borough’s business and public sector leaders.
Some people could be underestimating their alcohol intake by as much as 40 per cent, according to new figures the Department of Health published today (7 February).
Local Growth Minister Mark Prisk has today (7 February 2013) issued a warning to high streets across the country that they need to adapt to meet the changing needs of today’s...
The Government has announced that it is planning to extend legal protection over dog attacks to cover those that take place on private property.
Ten budding reporters took part in a Practice News Day for BBC School Report. Chairing editorial meetings, seeking out staff and learners’ views on the hot topics of the day...
MEP Paul Nuttall has written to all the MPs in his North West constituency urging them to take urgent action over pay day loans. “I feel really strongly about these loans and...
One of the ELLI (effective lifelong learning inventory) dimensions is creativity. Creativity is the ELLI dimension which interests me the most because it helps me get out of...
Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group met on Wednesday night (6 February 2013) to discuss the growing crisis surrounding nuclear power and nuclear waste in the United Kingdom and...
Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce and The Business Growth Hub are working together to launch a major new drive to recruit more mentors to support growing businesses across...
The government has announced new ‘permitted development rights’ that will allow offices to be converted into houses and flats without the need for planning permission. However,...
Dr Brian Sloan, Chief Economist at Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, has given his views ahead of this week's Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
Tell us what you Think! It seems like just a short while ago that the Chamber prepared a submission to the Chancellor in advance of his Autumn Statement.
Over 6,000 homes in the North West will be better protected from the devastating effects of flooding, Defra and the Environment Agency have confirmed today, after nearly...
Town centre manager Debbie O’Brien thinks a giant 'big wheel' is the answer to bring more people into Rochdale. She believes the idea is realistic and would mirror the success...
Date Published 06/02/2013
Disgraced former MP, Cyril Smith was a regular visitor to a guest house in Barnes, London which is now at the centre of Operation Fernbridge; set up in the wake of the Jimmy...
A new leading light for transport in Greater Manchester Transport for Greater Manchester’s new Chief Executive has set out the key opportunities and challenges facing the...
Rochdale Sci-Fi Convention Friday 22 & Saturday 23 February at 11am-4pm at Rochdale’s Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre. Red Dwarf; Star Wars; Doctor Who; Iron-man & friends;...
Mayor, Cllr James Gartside, created quite a stir rustling up a mouth-watering meal as part of a series of healthy cookery classes. Joining 14 local workers at St Andrew’s...