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• Bury Hospice awarded £46,000 as part of £25 million national hospice funding boost

  Bury Hospice is set to receive £46,591 as part of a nationwide £25 million uplift to support vital end-of-life care across the UK.

• Therme Manchester launches youth art competition to transform construction site into outdoor gallery

  A new art competition aimed at young people across Greater Manchester has been launched by Therme Manchester, with winning entries set to be displayed on a large-scale public gallery surrounding its TraffordCity site.

• Older entrepreneurs invited to launch their own businesses at Bury Library event

  Residents over 50 with ambitions to start their own business are being offered free expert support through a dedicated event at Bury Library next month.

• Tobacco dog Dora helps uncover £25,000 in illegal goods across Bury

  Dora the tobacco dog helped uncover illegal cigarettes, vapes, counterfeit toys and hand-rolling tobacco worth £25,000 during a joint operation between council officers and Greater Manchester Police.

• Rochdale marks Hate Crime Awareness Week with community outreach

  Rochdale has taken part in Hate Crime Awareness Week, with housing, council and police teams working together to engage local communities and support victims.

• The immersive tour of Rochdale, revealing hidden secrets

  Culture, music, religion and the history of the town centre Wetherspoons. Only Rochdale could weave tales of these things together into a compelling intertwing web.

• Andy Burnham to give homeless kids school bus passes

  Andy Burnham has committed to giving 8,000 homeless children in temporary accommodation free school travel in a win for Manchester Evening News and Roch Valley Radio readers.

• Call out to Falinge Park High School leavers from 1996

  Organisers are appealing for help in finding as many former pupils as possible who left Falinge Park High School in Rochdale in 1996, as plans take shape for a Class of ’96 reunion.

• Pupils 'not safe' at Royton school, DfE warns, as Ofsted safeguarding concerns trigger closure

  A Royton school has closed following serious safeguarding concerns, with the Department for Education (DfE) warning families that children are “not safe at the school”.

• Tributes paid to Arian Abbasi after fatal light aircraft crash in Littleborough

  A man killed in a light aircraft crash in Rochdale has been named as Arian Abbasi, 36, from Harrow in Greater London. His family have described him as a “deeply loving father and a devoted husband”.

• Greater Manchester borough with one of the ‘lowest funding per person’ faces £14m budget hole

  Bury has some of the ‘lowest levels of funding per person’ in Greater Manchester as its council faces a £14m budget gap, bosses say.