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Town Centre Business Awards 2008

Best Independent Retailer: Chantilly - Rochdale Town Centre Management Business Awards 2008

The second annual Rochdale Town Centre Business Awards took place tonight (Friday 5 September), at the China City restaurant. Christmas was the unlikely theme for the ceremony, with festive music played and Christmas characters roaming the room. Organisers at the Town Centre Management committee decided that because town centre employees had to work hard over the Christmas period, they should get chance to have their own festive celebrations.

Date published: 05/09/2008

Bury Road closed - man trying to harm himself

Bury Road closed to traffic in both directions from the junction with Roch Valley Way/Sandy Lane

Bury Road is closed to traffic in both directions from the junction with Roch Valley Way/Sandy Lane to the junction at War Office Road.
Shortly after 12pm today, Thursday 4 September,...

Date published: 04/09/2008

Food and Drink Festival

Heroes in Norden has been shortlisted as one of the best Food and Drink outlets in Greater Manchester

Rochdale will join the Greater Manchester Food & Drink Festival for the second time in 2008. The festival in October will feature a Pennines ‘Mini Fest’ based around Littleborough and...

Date published: 05/09/2008

Middleton Rotary Club celebrating 75 years of service

The history of Middleton Rotary Club dates back to 6 March 1933 when 20 men held a lunchtime meeting at the Lynwood Cafe, Long Street Middleton to discuss forming a Rotary club.
The weekly meetings continued and ten weeks after that first gathering an application was made for membership of Rotary International.
The club's charter was granted on 5 August making the...

Date published: 05/09/2008

People’s Art

This is your chance to exhibit in your local art gallery an original work on any subject in any medium provided it has not been exhibited in People’s Art before.
People’s Art is the annual exhibition open to anyone who lives or works in the borough of Rochdale. Individuals can enter one original piece of their own work for a small charge of £3....

Date published: 05/09/2008

Clampdown on underage drinking

Rochdale North Neighbourhood Policing Team arrested seven people last weekend during an initiative to tackle underage drinking.
Among the areas targeted were Springfield Park, Falinge Park, Bamford Precinct and Gale Street.
Officers also carried out 46 stop checks and visited local off-licences to ensure alcohol was not being sold illegally. ...

Date published: 05/09/2008

NHS AGM attracts local champions

Rochdale’s World Street Dance Champions, Ruthless, will be performing their winning routine at this year’s NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale annual general meeting (AGM). The event will take place on 24 September at the Rochdale Centre for Diversity on Station Road, Rochdale, starting at 6pm.
Ruthless, who train at The Academy in Castleton, fought off fierce...

Date published: 05/09/2008

Councillor sparks fire debate in Heywood

Councillor Doreen Brophy-Lee, Councillor Peter Rush and Councillor Malcolm Bruce outside Heywood Railway Station

Heywood North Councillor Peter Rush has put forward plans for the official Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service Museum to be relocated to Heywood. The museum, which is currently...

Date published: 05/09/2008

Impact Partnership news

Final tenders have been received and bidder interviews held for the Heywood Sports, Culture & Leisure Village project. Now awaiting final tender clarifications prior to making recommendations to the Authority for the appointment of a selected contractor.
Last week, Impact attended an exhibition aimed at promoting Property services within the ‘blue light’ sector. Impact...

Date published: 05/09/2008

Penk the prankster buys 96.2 The Revolution

96.2 The Revolution

Radio station 96.2 The Revolution has been bought by TV and radio personality Steve Penk.
The station was previously jointly owned by UKRD and Hirst, Kidd and Rennie Ltd - owners of...

Date published: 05/09/2008

New jab will cut cervical cancer

Cervical cancer could be cut by nearly three-quarters in Rochdale, thanks to a new vaccination programme, which starts in the next few weeks, to distribute human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine.
It protects against two types of the sexually-transmitted infection, which cause more than 70 per cent of cervical cancers.
It is being offered to all 12 and 13-year-old girls...

Date published: 05/09/2008

Extra 78 beds at cancer unit

An extra 78 beds are to be created at the £17.13 million cancer centre due to open in 2010.
Regional health bosses have approved the move which will provide accommodation for non-cancer patients in the three-storey building.
Bosses at the Christie Hospital, Manchester, are to build a radiotherapy unit at the Royal Oldham Hospital which will open in two years’ time....

Date published: 05/09/2008

Hospital parking charges defended

Parking charges at the Rochdale Infirmary are up to six times less than those charged in some hospitals across the country.
The claim came from Pennine Acute Trust, which runs four hospitals, including the Rochdale Infirmary, in defence of a call for parking charges to be scrapped.
The charges — branded a stealth tax on the sick, were this week ditched at...

Date published: 05/09/2008

Three jailed for taxi driver robbery

Scott Alfrey

Three Littleborough men who robbed a taxi driver at knifepoint have been jailed for total a total of nearly 17 years. All three had pleaded guilty to robbery at an earlier hearing before...

Date published: 04/09/2008

Brave males needed for hair-raising event!

An appeal has been launched to find Rochdale men brave enough to take part in a sponsored leg wax in aid of children’s charity MedEquip4Kids and Rochdale Infirmary. MedEquip4Kids, which funds medical equipment for children’s wards and neo-natal units at hospitals across the North West, is looking for help to fund digital syringe pumps for the High Dependency Unit at Rochdale...

Date published: 04/09/2008

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