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20 Most Recent News Stories
Middleton Tapestry Success
Thu 3rd Dec 2009
Middleton's Bayeux Tapestry - three large tapestries totalling 24 ft that chronicle the history of Middleton through its buildings, businesses and organisations - is finally expected to come home. The painstaking work from 60 volunteers was first started in the mid 1990s and completed for the Millennium celebrations. The tapestries were displayed for a short time in the old Middleton Civic Centre, but then have been kept in storage in Rochdale ever since.
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Fusiliers Homecoming Parade
Thu 3rd Dec 2009
On Monday 30th November, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers marched through Rochdale on their Homecoming Parade after long service in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
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Nick Clegg Comes to Town
Mon 30th Nov 2009
Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, is visiting the area in December. Since becoming Leader in 2007 Clegg has held around 50 public meetings up and down Britain, and talked to thousands of people. Anyone who wants to can attend the events and ask Nick Clegg the questions that they want the answers to.
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Sponsor a Window at Norden Old Library
Mon 30th Nov 2009
The Norden Old Library project is approaching another exciting milestone for the redevelopment of the building and Norden Community Trust is launching a major fundraising appeal to help with the costs.
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Wera Reports on the Scout Moor Windfarms
Mon 30th Nov 2009
Wera Hobhouse, Parliamentary Candidate for Heywood and Middleton, visited the windfarms on Scout Moor to find out some more information. Here is what she found out.
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Bamford Residents Can Finally Cross With Safety
Sun 3rd May 2009
The construction of a much-needed pedestrian crossing on a busy Bamford Road is now complete. Local residents called for a crossing because of the difficulties in getting to Bamford Primary School and local shops across the busy Norden Road. Local Councillors William Hobhouse and Andrew Abbott took up the issue 3 years ago and secured funding from the Rochdale Township for the traffic lights and crossing to be installed.
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Local MEP Slams Brussels 'Gravy-Train'
Mon 27th Apr 2009
Local Member of the European Parliament, Chris Davies, has expressed his dismay at the system of expenses in the European Parliament that can see MEPs become millionaires in just two terms. The rules allow MEPs to employ family members who can be paid up to £500,000 over one term, just one of the ways in which some members manipulate the system to take home more money themselves.
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Heywood & Middleton Labour Party Propose to Increase Their Own Pay
Thu 26th Feb 2009
Heywood and Middleton Liberal Democrats have expressed their shock and disgust at Labour Councillors after they put forward proposals to last night's budget council that would see two of their leading member's receive an extra £2,800 a year in allowances.
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Heywood Councillors Choose to Freeze Allowances
Thu 26th Feb 2009
Rochdale Borough Councillors have agreed to a freeze on their allowances. The increase in April was expected to be around 2%. Each Councillor is entitled to an increase which is set be the average income in the Borough.
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Residents Overwhelmingly Back 50% Recycling Target
Mon 2nd Feb 2009
A survey conducted by the Liberal Democrats has found that almost 90% of residents support the Liberal Democrat target to recycle 50% of our waste by 2011. The results of the questionnaire, carried out in Norden and Bamford, also show that over 60% of respondents would like the opportunity to have a wheelie bin to recycle paper and cardboard as opposed to the blue plastic bags that are currently used.
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Lib Dem Councillors lead the way on Facebook!
Tue 20th Jan 2009
Two Councillors in the Heywood and Middleton Constituency have embraced popular social networking site 'Facebook' to enable them to keep in touch with local residents and help them out with any issues they have. Heywood North Councillor, Peter Rush and Norden Councillor and Parliamentary Candidate, Wera Hobhouse joined up last year and have seen their 'friends lists' rocket, with nearly 600 'friends' between them.
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Councillor Turns up the Heat in Fire Debate
Tue 20th Jan 2009
Heywood North Councillor Peter Rush has taken another step in his plans to see the official Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service Museum relocated to Heywood. Councillor Rush recently invited Vice Chair of the Greater Manchester Transport Authority, Councillor Keith Whitmore, to the museum to have a look around at the exhibition and discuss his vision for Heywood.
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The Big Clean: Your Streets Need You!
Thu 27th Nov 2008
Rochdale Council has allocated £100 000 to be spent over coming months on cleaning up our streets. But it won't be the Council deciding where the money is spent, it will be you. The Council wants local people, community groups, schools, businesses, youth groups, friends and neighbours to get in touch and tell them about any grot-spots that they want to see cleaned up.
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