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Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Jordan Tarrant-Short is smiling as he stands in a church hall. He is wearing a dark suit with white shirt and blue tie. He is wearing a large light blue-and-white Reform UK rosette.

Reform wins second Greater Manchester council seat

Reform UK's Jordan Tarrant-Short says he is "ecstatic" to be elected to Rochdale Council.

Two red-cased bleed control kits sat in a red cabinet mounted to a wall.

Town gets first life-saving bleed kits

The emergency first aid kits are installed in Rochdale as part of a knife crime safety campaign.

A woman in a red coat walks down a shopping street in Oldham clutching bags as other people mill around

Two towns to get £40m government windfall

The £40m investment will "breathe life back into the town centres", the government says.

Aerial images of the progress on the flood defence scheme in Littleborough

Flood defences take shape in £46m project

New images show the progress of works aimed at protecting thousands of homes in Greater Manchester.

Six tower blocks can be seen to the right of the camera lining a road, with snowy hills in the far background

'Hundreds of empty homes as people sleep on street'

A decision is yet to be made on the future of the Seven Sisters tower blocks in Greater Manchester.

Victorian Gothic building of Rochdale Town Hall with a clock tower to the left and a church on a slope behind it. Part of the town hall is covered in scaffolding for refurbishments.

Victorian town hall's extra repairs may cost £1m

Rochdale's Victorian-era Town Hall has been undergoing extensive renovation work since 2021.

A photograph of Hopwood Hall in Middleton provided by Rochdale Council. It is an old brick building that has boarded up windows with a patch of untended grass at the front. A group of young people sit on the steps in front of it.

Options for historic hall to be used by community

A study will look at how Hopwood Hall can be brought back into use to benefit the community.

Michelle Kight, wearing a grey hoodie, and Denise Murphy, wearing a grey jumper, stand together in front of the new double yellow lines on Major Street in Milnrow.

Residents see red over new double yellow lines

Some residents say parking restrictions, designed to ease traffic congestion, are a "nightmare".

Hopwood DePree stands outside Hopwood Hall, in Middleton, Rochdale. He has blond hair and his wearing a tie under a blue jumper.

US actor's dream to own ancestral home is in ruins

Rochdale Council has pulled out of a deal to sell Hopwood Hall to actor Hopwood DePree.