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Littleborough playing fields have been earmarked as a potential new site for a secondary school after approval by Rochdale council’s cabinet on Tuesday (26 June).
Date Published 27/06/2018
Daniel Hollinshead is the only child at his primary school who will not be attending the closest secondary school to his Littleborough home, despite living in the catchment area.
Date Published 21/06/2018
Volunteers made a local record-breaking £3,600 during their seventh annual car wash on Sunday 10 June.
Date Published 14/06/2018
Wardle Academy has been granted an £11,000 donation for music education by the EMI Music Sound Foundation in celebration of the charity’s 20th anniversary.
Date Published 13/06/2018
A potential new secondary school could be built on popular playing fields in the Pennine region of the borough.
Two teenagers have been hospitalised after a vicious and unprovoked racial attack.
Date Published 04/06/2018
One in every five children aged 10 or 11 in Rochdale is obese, new analysis by Public Health England shows.
Date Published 01/06/2018
Schoolchildren discussed a range of Wardle Trust projects at a student council meeting at Kentmere Academy.
Date Published 25/05/2018
Choirs from Rochdale were amongst those performing at the commemorative Manchester Together - With One Voice concert in the city centre on Tuesday (22 May).
Date Published 23/05/2018
The new Mayor of Rochdale, Mohammed Zaman, attended his first official engagement as Mayor on Thursday (17 May) at Wardle Academy to celebrate the Youth Band's achievements...
Date Published 19/05/2018
Wardle Academy Youth Band are European Champions having won the 2018 European Brass Band Championships, just two weeks after becoming National Champions.
Date Published 10/05/2018
A local grassroots football club is still waiting for a pitch extension to meet with Lancashire FA guidelines, three years after receiving a funding boost for these very works.
Date Published 09/05/2018
A good night overall for Labour holding 16 seats to retain its significant majority on Rochdale Borough Council with 46 councillors.
Date Published 04/05/2018
Senior Reserve Attendant William S Harrison: William was born in Rochdale and having lived at 432 Halifax Road with his mother Ann and siblings in 1901, a year later he married...
Date Published 01/05/2018
Wardle Academy Youth Band, Wardle Academy Junior Band and Wardle Junior Blast all came first in the National Youth Band Championships in Warwick.
Date Published 29/04/2018
It was the end of an era at St Andrew's, Dearnley when church wardens Ray Milligan and Peter Shrigley retired from office to be succeeded by Christine Longhurst and Janice
Date Published 25/04/2018
Year 10 pupils from Oulder Hill Community School, Beech House School, Hollingworth Academy, Middleton Technology School, Wardle Academy, Siddal Moor, Matthew Moss High School, and...
Date Published 19/04/2018
Wardle Football Club is raising £300 for new security fencing at Rutherford Park.
Date Published 28/03/2018
People from across Rochdale attended the Rochdale Science Extravaganza, including the Mayor and Mayoress, Ian and Christine Duckworth, Rochdale MP Tony Lloyd and local ward...
Date Published 19/03/2018
Councillor Carol Wardle, chairwoman of Rochdale Borough Council Planning committee, has said she may have "mistakenly misled objectors" to a greenbelt planning application.
Date Published 15/03/2018
Wardle’s Junior Blast took part in a charity concert at St Ann’s Church, Manchester on Saturday and helped to raise £1,500 for Help for Heroes.
Private Stanley Bamford Stanley was born in Wardle in 1898 and lived at 4 Bk Chapel Street, Wardle with his parents Abraham (a Cotton Weaver) and Fanny.
Date Published 05/03/2018
Kentmere Primary School has been rated outstanding in all areas by Oftsed, just three years after being deemed inadequate and placed in special measures (in 2015 the school broke ...
Date Published 22/02/2018
Wardle Academy Youth Band had the honour of performing at the RNCM Festival of Brass along with bands such as Black Dyke, Fairies, Brighouse and Rastrick, on Saturday 27 January.
Date Published 08/02/2018
Wardle Academy has been given a ‘good’ grading by Ofsted inspectors following a full inspection of the school on Tuesday 12 December and Wednesday 13 December 2017.
Date Published 31/01/2018
Just two secondary schools in Rochdale borough are exceeding the new national standards.
Date Published 27/01/2018
Disgruntled Littleborough residents asked police why their cases have been closed at the local PACT meeting on Tuesday (23 January), following the news of police closing cases and...
Date Published 24/01/2018
Christmas Day Family Services, Meal for the homeless, Breakfasts, Beers & Band, Motown & Northern Soul, Winter Walk, Indie Christmas Party lots to do in-between Christmas and New...
Date Published 23/12/2017
Littleborough residents Jeni Wardley and her mum, Linda Chappell, are set to shave their hair to raise £10,000 for the Post Pals charity, who are dedicated to making seriously ill...
Date Published 11/12/2017
Members of the Wardle Academy brass band played at the funeral of Pam Anderson, wife of first head teacher of Wardle High School William Anderson.
Date Published 08/12/2017