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Seven years on from Greater Manchester’s darkest hour, the city’s fire service is ‘the best prepared in the UK’ for a terrorist attack says Dave Russel, the Chief Fire Officer for...
Date Published 11/03/2024
Pianist John Sabar was the performer at this week's Toad Lane Concert at St Mary's Church on Wednesday 6 March.
Date Published 10/03/2024
Bowlee Car Boot Sale and Market – one of the biggest and most popular in Greater Manchester - returns for its 2024 season this month. Organised by Rochdale Borough Council, the...
A group of 13 young people, aged between 16 and 25, have recently supported a community project at the Spotland Community Centre on Spotland Road in Rochdale. The participants in...
Date Published 09/03/2024
Not only did the Black Dyke Mills Band fill the air in the celebratory procession at the opening of Rochdale Town Hall in 1871, but its successors, the current champion band of...
A 70-year-old man has died after he was hit by a car while crossing Halifax Road on Wednesday 6 March. GMP’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit is appealing for information...
Date Published 08/03/2024
A young dad and football coach has been diagnosed with leukaemia at the age of 31 with the local community and his club backing him in his bid to kick the disease. Kyle...
A special Asda awards night celebrating achievements within the haulage industry has raised an incredible £54,957 for Greater Manchester charity, Veterans into Logistics.
Repairs to a gas pipe in Bamford Road, Heywood, will mean another set of temporary traffic lights will be in place from Monday (11 March), in a blow to motorists already...
Operation Wolverine reached another significant milestone as the team from Greater Manchester Police’s Specialist Operations Branch recovered £2,227,571.36 from 10,990 vehicles...
Date Published 07/03/2024
A support fund that has acted as a lifeline to families across the country has been extended – which has been welcomed in part by Rochdale’s council leader.
Police are appealing for witnesses to an incident yesterday (Wednesday 6 March) which has left a 70-year-old man in a critical condition.
Lots to do in and around the borough this weekend: Rochdale AFC v Oxford City, LABC 5k Race, Sparrow Hill, Springhill Hospice Fundraiser, Rochdale Borough Festival of Ideas,...
A sustained academic engagement programme has been launched in Rochdale. This is a ground-breaking university access initiative, an extraordinary coalition – made up of the...
Date Published 06/03/2024
Officers at Greater Manchester Police are still using a ‘sub-optimal’ IT system that the Chief Constable said would be abandoned two years ago.
Two Rochdale sections of the GM Ringway, Greater Manchester’s walking trail, that take walkers through the borough have now been signposted. The two trails have been...
Rochdale Town Hall reopened with a fanfare on Sunday 3 March 2024 after being closed for more than three years for restoration work.
Date Published 05/03/2024
New proposals looking to improve journeys in Heywood town centre have been revealed. They include new signal-controlled pedestrian and cycle crossings, a bus and cyclist-only...
Two new housing complexes for those at risk of homelessness have been approved for Heywood, following a tense meeting of the planning committee. The meeting at Number One...
An autistic author and blogger from Middleton has released her latest book on 1 March, aimed at surviving puberty as a teenage girl.
Date Published 04/03/2024
Information on current and forthcoming roadworks planned to take place across the borough.
A head-on crash on Wildhouse Lane on Sunday 3 March 2024 has left one person in hospital in a life-threatening condition.
Citizens Advice Rochdale is a local charity that provides free, independent, impartial, confidential advice to people in Rochdale. Each month, we share advice around a key issue...
Date Published 03/03/2024
Councillor Mike Holly was sworn in as the Mayor of Rochdale in May 2023. This column is about the places he has been and the people he met in February 2024.
The Toad Lane Concerts series welcomes choirs and vocal groups, both local and visiting, as part of its diverse schedule of all kinds of musicians. Eccles Community Choir (est....
The UK’s telephone network is being upgraded, and landline services are changing. For decades, landlines have been delivered through an analogue network, but this is being...
Date Published 01/03/2024
All the headlines for the Rochdale by-election will go to George Galloway with his win for the Workers Party of Britain – but even he had to commend local man David Tully on...
Just 129 households in Greater Manchester have had insulation measures installed under a government scheme to help them save money on energy bills. The Great British Insulation...
The multi-award-winning Flying Horse Hotel in Rochdale town centre has once again been named the best pub in the borough by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).
Vicolo Del Vino has become the first restaurant to join Petrus’ new Kitchen Twinning Programme, which calls for local restaurants, cafes and even workplaces to ‘twin,’ their...