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Face-to-face fostering information event returns to Rochdale
Held at the Royal Toby Hotel in Castleton the Council hopes the event will encourage more people to come forward to foster
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Housing scheme for adults with learning disabilities opened in Heywood
Costing £1.8 million the 17 self-contained homes and are based on Cherwell Avenue and aim to ensure residents living with learning disabilities have their own home
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Five ‘off the shelf’ affordable family homes completed in Rochdale
Oldham-based housing association, First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO), bought five four-bedroom homes on Spotland Road, Rochdale, directly from house builders
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Puttstars Rochdale to offer free game to anyone with an Addams Family name
This Halloween weekend, Saturday 30th or Sunday 31st October, any Rochdale resident named after the Addams Family can win a free game at Puttstars
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Rochdale MP thanked for support of Local Electricity Bill
Campaign group Power for People thanked Tony Lloyd for backing the Local Electricity Bill which would empower communities to sell their energy directly to local people
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Rochdale residents found to speak ‘Lancashire’ according to new accent study
Sociolinguists from Manchester Metropolitan University have been investigating how people speak across Greater Manchester and found there were four main distinct regional dialects
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Construction starts on new 750-place Whitworth secondary school
The design comprises a two and three-storey main teaching block with classrooms, main hall, specialist technology spaces, entrance plaza and parking
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Littleborough named as one of the top commuter towns in the UK
Hunters chose Littleborough based on key lifestyle staples including access to green space, transport routes, school performance and value for money against average house prices
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Littleborough man completes London marathon in memory of late father and mother in law
David Russon, who lives in Littleborough raised £750 for the British Heart Foundation after completing the gruelling 26.2 mile run last weekend
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Volunteers wanted for rough sleeping event at Rochdale AFC
Hosted by Adam Trennery, who runs Their4U Fundraising and set up Rochdale AFC’s Military Veterans team, the event will take place on Friday November 19 at the Crown Oil Arena
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Rochdale GP reassures patients that practices are open for business
The HMR Clinical Commissioning Group are aiming to reassure patients after what they said was ‘some misinformation suggesting practices are closed and are not looking to reopen’
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Rochdale NHS hospital trust dissolved and merged with Salford Royal Trust
The Trust which will be known as the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, will become one of the largest NHS organisations in the country, employing over 20,000 staff