Dog Mess 4 - Dog Ends 1196: Council Get Litter Police Score WRONG
Local pupil Daniel goes to Highview School each day down a path blighted by dog fouling - as our photo shows.
7 Nov 2012
National News
MP and councillor ask local residents to support Oxenholme Post Office
Local MP Tim Farron has joined with Councillor Brenda Gray to ask local residents in Oxenholme to support the Post Office after the proprietor Bill Riddell said it could close.
7 Nov 2012
Large Grant for Milnrow and Newhey
Leader of the Rochdale Liberal Democrat Group Cllr Andy Kelly has been been successful in securing a £78,000 grant from the Veolia Environmental Trust for the Friends of Milnrow Memorial Park to build a skateboard and BMX facility for the local community. The grant comes after a fundraising drive that has seen £22,000 already raised making this a six figure project for the local community.
7 Nov 2012
Warning about 'fat-burner' substances containing DNP
Urgent advice has been issued by the Food Standards Agency to the public, and to people in the bodybuilding community in particular, following the deaths of two people believed to have taken a 'fat-burner' substance in tablet or powder form.
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6 Nov 2012
Adoption charities say adoption myths are preventing children finding permanent homes
A fifth of adults in the UK believe they would be ruled out of adopting a child after the age of 40, a study has revealed.
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6 Nov 2012
Postcard from China: A Fly on the Great Wall
It was not my first visit to China (in fact my third time climbing the great wall) but certainly the most intense: ten days from 22nd October to 1st November. Along with 26 other Overseas Chinese delegates involved in politics from eight nations in Europe and Africa, I was on a study visit at the invitation of the Chinese Government on the eve of the 18th Peoples' Congress.
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6 Nov 2012