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• New McDonald’s drive-thru plan officially tabled

  A new McDonald’s drive-thru could soon be coming to Rochdale.

• Detective Sergeant Dismissed and Banned from Policing following Sexual Assault Conviction

  A Greater Manchester Police detective has been formally dismissed from the force and barred from ever returning to policing after being convicted of two counts of sexual assault.

• Each candidate hoping to win the Balderstone and Kirkholt by-election

  Seven candidates will battle it out at next month’s by-election to become Rochdale’s newest councillor.

• Thousands enjoy spectacular town centre parade

  More than 2,500 flocked to Rochdale Town Hall Square as the ‘Flight of Fancy’ parade came to town last week.

• GMP and partners made more than 130 visits to business premises as part of a national intensification crackdown in March

  The three-week-long action, called Operation Machinize, began with three warrants on 3 March, which resulted in the recovery of 150 cannabis plants, the arrest of three individuals, and the detention of two individuals by Immigration Enforcement.

• Pub continues fight to keep outdoor ‘tipi’ after council orders them to remove it within a month

  A long-running saga about an unauthorised teepee in a pub’s beer garden is set to continue.

• Cannabis plants worth up to £350k seized in Rochdale

  Neighbourhood officers in Rochdale have uncovered a cannabis farm with £350,000 worth of plants discovered.

• ‘You’ve missed a bit’ Road markings gaffe at entrance to one-way street

  Highways contractors repainting road markings have been left red-faced after ‘missing a bit’ at the junction of a one-way street in Bury.

• Man charged following reports of indecent exposure in Heywood

  A man has been charged in connection with two incidents of indecent exposure in the Heywood area.

• Middleton Township councillors blasted for turning public concern into online mudslinging

  A inflammatory worded Facebook post from Middleton Township Chair Cllr June West and Vice Chair Cllr Peter Williams has sparked political backlash and raised questions about professionalism, transparency, and tone in local Labour party communications.

• Life on Rochdale’s ‘sink estate’

  The flats around them are set to be bulldozed, and they are the last ones left in Rochdale’s so-called ‘sink estate’.

• 33 arrests, 80 traffic offences and £19k in illegal vapes seized as Operation AVRO makes dent in criminality across Bury

  An early morning briefing was held at the Sir Robert Peel statue, the founder of the Metropolitan Police who was born in Bury, in Bury town centre.