Local News from Thursday, January 29th, 2026

A Bury fast food branch has reopened after a makeover promising to deliver ‘better customer service’.

Rochdale’s Feel Good Festival will return on Saturday 8 August, with early bird tickets for the main stage set to go on sale at 10am on Friday 6 February.

More than 2,700 children across Rochdale received Christmas presents last month thanks to the borough’s biggest-ever toy appeal.

A new initiative aimed at tackling homelessness and boosting wellbeing has been launched by Rochdale AFC Community Trust.

An inclusive sporting event aimed at raising funds and awareness for the visually impaired community is set to take place in Bury next month.

A masterplan to effectively build a new town on farmland just next to a key M60 motorway junction is set to be approved next week. A total of 1,550 new homes are earmarked for a large chunk of land between Simister and Bowlee.

A man has been found dead in the water at Healey Dell Nature Reserve in Rochdale, police have confirmed.

Emergency services are responding to an incident at Healey Dell Nature Reserve in Rochdale this afternoon, with police, firefighters and paramedics currently at the scene.

A 20-year-old man who posted a hateful antisemitic message online hours after a terror attack on a Manchester synagogue has been sentenced.

A new home could be built in the garden of one of Rochdale’s oldest surviving farmhouses if planning permission is approved.

A woman from Radcliffe has been handed a community sentence after police discovered a hidden cannabis farm worth up to £13,000 in her home and found cocaine in her bedroom.

Bury Council’s adult learning service has been told it needs to improve in two key areas following a recent inspection by Ofsted under its newly introduced reporting framework.

Families in Middleton are in for a treat this half term when a dazzling new circus show rolls into town for one day only.

A £3.5 million investment fund has been approved by Rochdale councillors to support neighbourhood initiatives across the borough.

Survivors of rape and serious sexual assault across Rochdale and the wider North West can now challenge decisions to drop their cases before they are finalised, under a newly expanded pilot backed by Rochdale MP Paul Waugh.

A deputy team manager from a Rochdale-based care organisation has been commended for saving the life of a police officer who was seriously injured while on duty.