Heywood, England News

Tips in Oldham, Prestwich, Heywood and Bolton shut at the end of September after Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority agreed to close them.

Plans to double the size of Heywood Distribution Park are in doubt after a key council planning document was shelved.

A plan which will allow a waste and recycling facility to be built in Heap Bridge is set to be rubber stamped this month.

Heywood is in for a very bright future, according to a leading councillor. Township chairman, Alan McCarthy, updated colleagues on Rochdale Council about various boons for the local economy duringA a full council meeting last week.

Queen's Park has become a popular nesting site for herons and visitors can see the trees alive with activity as eggs are incubated and then hatch in the spring Local people are being urged to help recognise Queen's Park as one of the most important heron nesting sites in the region.

Richard William Cook, 29, was driving to his Birtle home after a family meal along Bury and Rochdale Old Road in Heywood towards Bury in wet conditions when he lost control of his Toyota Rav4 near to the junction of Ashworth Road.

Several thousand locomotive lovers young and old flocked to the East Lancashire Railway station in Bolton Street, Bury, for its annual winter steam gala.

Rochdale has the third highest number of fire-related injuries in the UK, the Observer can reveal.