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A striking new mural has transformed the exterior of Rochdale Borough Libraries’ Balderstone branch, creating a vibrant community garden space for visitors of all ages.

A major refurbishment of Radcliffe Library will create a new centre to support local entrepreneurs and tackle high unemployment

Police and council efforts in Whitefield are tackling serious crime and antisocial behaviour while transforming problem areas into safer, greener spaces.

A report by Transport for Greater Manchester has found Rochdale’s modern bus interchange was pivotal to the borough’s most significant urban regeneration project in decades

Transformation of Heywood's popular venue and square enters new phase with new café and bar area taking shape

Police are appealing for witnesses after a van stolen in a violent robbery in Rawtenstall was later found dumped in Ramsbottom alongside a burnt-out car.

A scout group in Kirkholt will start paying for use of its long time venue at St Thomas Church from August 2025, after confirming it operates independently as a non-church group.

A Rochdale man has been banned from owning animals for a decade and given a suspended prison sentence after puppies in his care were discovered in filthy, faeces-covered conditions.

Plans for a world-leading centre for sustainable manufacturing in Rochdale have taken a major step forward, after a landmark agreement was signed by regional leaders and the University of Manchester.

A key stretch of a local bus route in Middleton has been reinstated following pressure from Rochdale Council after it was controversially axed by transport officials.

Roch Valley Radio has officially launched our first ever Community Heroes Awards, celebrating the everyday people, groups and organisations going above and beyond to make Rochdale and Bury a better place to live.

Repair works to the cremator at Middleton’s Boarshaw Cemetery are set to begin in late July, with cremations expected to resume shortly after.

A new touring outdoor performance is calling on 100 Greater Manchester residents to help bring giant puppet animals to life this summer, with a key stop in Heywood.

Work has started to to transform a major M60 motorway junction – with FIVE LANES of traffic and a new link road all on the cards.

Fans urged to plan ahead with 100,000 people expected across three major events on Tuesday

Officers are appealing for help to identify a man following two separate reports of indecency on Metrolink services, including one on the Oldham to Rochdale line.

Recent political scandals and inter-party squabbles have raised question marks over who is really in control of our local councils.

An Oldham mother has launched a High Court compensation claim worth more than £1 million against the NHS, alleging that medical errors at Royal Oldham Hospital left her son with permanent brain damage.

A pioneering conservation project using satellite collars could transform how threatened landscapes are managed in Lancashire

Anthony Englishby handed two-year exclusion order and suspended prison sentence following thefts in Stockport

ELR to host their biggest ever live music festival with iconic acts, vintage fair, and unlimited rail travel this weekend.

Jason Donovan wowed the crowd in a lively and laugh filled revival of The Rocky Horror Show at Manchester’s Palace Theatre, with high heels, mishaps and plenty of sparkle.

A bold new open air exhibition has transformed the entrance to Rochdale town centre, as the borough celebrates its year as Greater Manchester's Town of Culture

Littleborough is gearing up for a packed calendar of community events in 2025, kicking off this weekend with a band concert in Hare Hill Park.

As the glitter settles on this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, the contest is proving to be as outrageous, emotional and unpredictable as ever.

Rochdale has officially launched its year as Greater Manchester’s Town of Culture for 2025–26 with a preview event packed with local talent, voices and plans for the months ahead.

Madrid-based band Track Dogs will perform at The Met in Bury on Wednesday 7 May 2025, as part of their current UK tour.

Players, fans and club officials came together to celebrate a 97 point season that narrowly missed promotion, recognising standout contributors both on and off the pitch.

Southend United knocked Rochdale out of the play-offs after coming from 3-1 down to win 4-3 in extra time.

It’s all on the line tonight as Rochdale AFC face Southend United in a huge Vanarama National League Playoff Eliminator under the lights, in front of a packed Crown Oil Arena. Kick-off is at 7.45pm.

Bury have bolstered their squad with the signings of Scott Duxbury from Radcliffe and Callum Spooner from Hyde United, as manager Dave McNabb begins shaping his team ahead of the new campaign.

Bury Football Club has appointed Tony Cunningham as its new club secretary, following a competitive recruitment process involving over 20 applicants.

The funeral of former Rochdale midfielder Joe Thompson will take place on Monday, May 12, at 11am at St Mark’s Church, Worsley (M28 2WH).

A newly built sports facility at Redbank Playing Fields has been officially named The Paul Hilton Pavilion, in honour of Paul’s outstanding contribution to sport, Radcliffe Football Club, and the wider Radcliffe community.

Over 200 people from across the Rochdale borough gathered at Rochdale Town Hall on Tuesday evening for a community event hosted by the Ogden family.

The teacher of one of the Southport stabbing victims has told Sky News they "don't want her to be forgotten", 10 months after the knife attack in which she was murdered.

Football pundit Gary Neville is to miss coverage of the Premier League finale on Sunday after being banned by Nottingham Forest, whose owner he recently criticised.

Scientists from Kew Gardens are using a new study to track which trees bees prefer to try to stem the decline in our vital pollinators.

Speaking to supporters and soaking up the scene around the Tottenham High Road told you everything about what it means to end a trophy drought.

"The target was never particularly ambitious," says the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) about Labour's plan to add two million extra NHS appointments during their first year in power.

Sir Keir Starmer's claim he is U-turning on cutting winter fuel payments for pensioners because he now has the money is not "credible", Harriet Harman has said.

Billy Joel has cancelled all his upcoming concerts in the UK and the US after being diagnosed with a brain illness that has affected his "hearing, vision and balance".

Kneecap have released a new single ahead of their headline performance at London's Wide Awake festival, just days after one of their members was charged with a terror offence.

Wes Anderson is a rarity in Hollywood, with an unswayed distinct aesthetic which has every big name in Hollywood pleading to be in his next project.

Eight people have been found guilty of crimes connected to the gunpoint robbery of Kim Kardashian at a Paris hotel.

Billy Joel has cancelled all his upcoming concerts in the UK and the US after being diagnosed with a brain illness that has affected his "hearing, vision and balance".

Kneecap have released a new single ahead of their headline performance at London's Wide Awake festival, just days after one of their members was charged with a terror offence.

Before the amps are even switched on in Brockwell Park, there's been a lot of noise about who should or shouldn't be performing.

Home hero Charles Leclerc topped an eventful first practice for the Monaco Grand Prix despite clashing with Lance Stroll.

Liam Delap has been granted permission to speak to other clubs with Ipswich expecting him to leave this summer.

Pep Guardiola has claimed he would quit as Manchester City boss if he is given too big a squad next season because he cannot bear to leave a large number of fit players out.

Em Arlott starred as England took an unassailable 2-0 lead in their three-match T20I series against West Indies with a nine-wicket hammering at the 1st Central City Ground in Hove.

Nathan Aspinall said Michael van Gerwen looked like he had "given up" as he dealt him a 6-2 loss in their Premier League quarter-final on Night 16 in Sheffield to end his chances of making the Play-Offs.

A cargo ship has crashed into a man's front garden in Norway, missing his home, where he was sleeping, by just a few metres.

A chess grandmaster who is playing a single game against 140,000 people thinks the match is heading for a draw.

An issue of the Magna Carta, which was wrongly catalogued as a copy in the 1940s, has been identified as original.

A duck has been caught on a radar image breaking the speed limit in central Switzerland - and it could be a repeat offender.

An Australian woman accused of murdering her estranged husband's parents and an aunt by serving them a beef wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms is on trial.

The head of the UN has said Israel has only authorised for Gaza what amounts to a "teaspoon" of aid after at least 60 people died in overnight airstrikes.

The man suspected of shooting dead two Israeli embassy workers in Washington DC leaned over and fired at them repeatedly after they fell to the ground, the FBI has said.

"The target was never particularly ambitious," says the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) about Labour's plan to add two million extra NHS appointments during their first year in power.

Donald Trump has issued advice on how UK energy bills could come down further, after households on the energy price cap were told they would see a 7% reduction from July.

Fears of a US-EU trade war have been reignited after Europe refused to back down in the face of fresh threats from Donald Trump.

Before the amps are even switched on in Brockwell Park, there's been a lot of noise about who should or shouldn't be performing.

Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 50% tariff on the EU, starting from next month, after saying that trade talks with Brussels were "going nowhere".

Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney for fuelling antisemitism after two Israeli embassy workers were shot dead in Washington DC.

"The target was never particularly ambitious," says the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) about Labour's plan to add two million extra NHS appointments during their first year in power.

Sir Keir Starmer's claim he is U-turning on cutting winter fuel payments for pensioners because he now has the money is not "credible", Harriet Harman has said.

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The UK has signed a long-awaited deal to hand control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

Campaigners have hit out at the "short-sighted" decision not to include prisoners on indefinite sentences in the plans to reduce the prison population.

Scientists from Kew Gardens are using a new study to track which trees bees prefer to try to stem the decline in our vital pollinators.

Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 50% tariff on the EU, starting from next month, after saying that trade talks with Brussels were "going nowhere".

The mother of a 14-year-old boy who claims he took his own life after becoming obsessed with artificial intelligence chatbots can continue her legal case against the company behind the technology, a judge has ruled.

The wife of OceanGate's chief executive asked "what was that bang?" as she unknowingly heard the moment the Titan submersible imploded.

Chemical castration has been used on sex offenders in several countries over many years, with some success - but it remains controversial.

The head of the UN has said Israel has only authorised for Gaza what amounts to a "teaspoon" of aid after at least 60 people died in overnight airstrikes.

In mid-May, the World Health Organisation assessed that there were "nearly half a million people in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death".

A man has been charged after a cargo ship ran aground in a front garden as the homeowner was sleeping indoors.

Russian forces are reportedly gathering across the border from Ukraine's "fortress city" - but why?

Fears of a US-EU trade war have been reignited after Europe refused to back down in the face of fresh threats from Donald Trump.

A woman has been arrested after 17 people were reportedly injured in a stabbing at Hamburg's central train station in Germany.

Eight people have been found guilty of crimes connected to the gunpoint robbery of Kim Kardashian at a Paris hotel.

The man suspected of shooting dead two Israeli embassy workers in Washington DC leaned over and fired at them repeatedly after they fell to the ground, the FBI has said.

Fears of a US-EU trade war have been reignited after Europe refused to back down in the face of fresh threats from Donald Trump.

British taxpayers are set to swallow a loss of just over £10bn on the 2008 rescue of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as the government prepares to confirm that it has offloaded its last-remaining shares in the lender as soon as next week.

Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 50% tariff on the EU, starting from next month, after saying that trade talks with Brussels were "going nowhere".

President Trump's Friday flurry of pronouncements marks the return of negotiation by smartphone and may trigger another period of profound uncertainty for international trade and financial markets.

Donald Trump has issued advice on how UK energy bills could come down further, after households on the energy price cap were told they would see a 7% reduction from July.

The latest energy price cap announcement brings a welcome if modest reduction in prices for 22 million consumers, and valuable context to the politically corrosive debate over the Winter Fuel Allowance.

A £500m deal to end the two-year ownership impasse at the Daily Telegraph has been agreed "in principle", it has been announced.

The British-born newspaper-owner whose takeover of The Daily Telegraph appears to have been thwarted by a £500m deal with RedBird Capital Partners has called on the title's stakeholders to rally behind his bid instead.