Local News from Thursday, July 2nd, 2026

Famous Toad Lane Pioneers Museum at risk of closure without urgent funding

The trust responsible for Rochdale Pioneers Museum has warned the birthplace of the modern co operative movement could close within two years unless a long term funding solution is found.
A fourteen-year-old horserider beat all the adults to secure a place in the prestigious Horse of the Year Show in Birmingham in October.

Whitworth Community High School Year 9 student Abby Parnell was competing in only her second ever Horse of the Year Show, HOYS, qualifying heat on Sunday June 28 in Formby.
Daughter of Bernadette Mcneilly sets up petition to protect children from abusive parents and trauma

The daughter of one of the killers of Suzanne Capper, Kelly Higgins, has started a petition to 'Automatically remove parental responsibility for parents convicted of abuse'
Rochdale MP urges Ministers to do 'everything possible' to deport grooming gang criminals

Shabir Ahmed was convicted of 30 child sexual offences and was jailed for 19 years in Liverpool Crown Court in 2012, but just 14 years into his sentence, he is set to be released from prison today.

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