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Triplets from Milnrow have been busy creating headbands for NHS workers from old football kits.
Date Published 20/04/2020
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham is leading calls for businesses to urgently apply for a share of the £629m coronavirus grant funding available from local authorities in the...
Father of four, Chris Kean, 50, a nurse at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, has been taking song requests from family, friends and colleagues on social media to help keep...
A young persons’ guide to keeping safe during the Covid-19 pandemic has been launched by a leading health and social care organisation, Turning Point.
Rochdale AFC has announced a partnership with cloud-based ticketing operator Future Ticketing. A leading provider of digital ticketing solutions, Future Ticketing’s software will...
A local manufacturer is playing a key role in supplying 25,000 mattresses needed for the new NHS Nightingale hospitals being used to treat Covid-19 patients.
It was a moment to remember for one lucky bingo player from Rochdale, as she won a huge online bingo jackpot in just one game, claiming £49,646 through Mecca Bingo.
Littleborough-born blood cancer survivor and Cure Leukaemia patron Geoff Thomas has reluctantly announced the cancellation of his GT15 Tour de France challenge with view to...
Date Published 19/04/2020
National charity Heart Research UK has issued some tips on staying healthy during lockdown, plus Dr Helen Flaherty, Head of Health Promotion shared her tips on getting your...
Castleton resident Frank Salt has appeared on BBC Radio Four to talk about the 100th anniversary of a march by members of the National League of the Blind, which ultimately led to...
Date Published 18/04/2020
People making new claims for Universal Credit will no longer need to call the Department as part of the process. Instead a bolstered frontline team will proactively call...
Over 6,200 drivers have been caught breaking the speed limit since the start of lockdown on Monday 23 March. With all non-essential travel currently banned under government...
GPs surgeries have had to transform the way they work to try to limit the spread of coronavirus.
Waste bosses are reviewing whether to reopen the region’s tips more than three weeks after they were shut over concerns about social distancing. Wigan council – which as a...
Date Published 17/04/2020
Rochdale Council has processed more than £30m worth of government coronavirus grants to nearly 3,000 businesses as staff pull out all the stops to support businesses and...
Rochdale Borough Council has announced that the launch of the Feel Good Family Picnic, due to be staged for the first time on 25 July has been delayed due to the coronavirus...
Less than three weeks since work first started, NHS Nightingale Hospital North West officially opens today in central Manchester, to provide care for hundreds of patients with...
Dale Supporters Trust has made two donations to local good causes to support with the community and efforts in dealing with the Covid-19 crisis.
More than nine in 10 businesses in Greater Manchester have been affected by the coronavirus crisis, the latest figures reveal. A total of 93 per cent of businesses in the region...
A beloved Norden milkman whose family has served the community for over a century has retired due to ill health.
Mayor Andy Burnham has revealed that a delivery of personal protective equipment (PPE) for Greater Manchester arrived two days late and only contained a tenth of the masks and...
Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce is offering all businesses who are not currently Chamber members free access to a new initiative launched in response to the coronavirus...
From the start of this month, The Pennine Acute Trust is to have over £160m of debt scrapped as part of the £13.4 billion debt write-off announced by the Health Secretary.
Hundreds of Easter eggs were donated to the community over the Easter weekend (10-12 April). Volunteers of Parents Against Grooming UK handed out 500 Easter eggs across the...
Date Published 16/04/2020
The PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide charity has been offered free pitch-side advertising on one of the world’s most popular video games.
Award -winning children’s author, Adam Perrott, will be live streaming a special dinosaur storytime this Saturday at 10am.
The first UK patients have started taking part in an important research study comparing the effectiveness of three new ventilation methods for Covid-19, including one manufactured...
While we are all sitting at home, wildlife is just getting on with its spring preparations. And bees look bigger and busier at this time of year, according to Ben Hargreaves,...
Plans to introduce a Clean Air Zone (CAZ) across Greater Manchester next year have been put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. A public consultation on the long-delayed...
Cancer patients across Greater Manchester are continuing to access vital surgery despite the challenges being faced by NHS teams across the region during Covid-19...
