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• Hopwood Hall College to honour former governors by naming new buildings after them

  Hopwood Hall College will name two new buildings after former governors Robert Clegg OBE and Clive Reid in recognition of their decades of voluntary service to the college.

• College Bank relocation programme reaches 100 home offer milestone

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• Empty warehouse could become new SEND school

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• Government to change law in bid to deport Rochdale grooming gang ringleader

  The government plans to change immigration law to allow the deportation of the released ringleader of a Rochdale child sexual exploitation gang after existing legislation prevented his removal from the UK.

• Gabrielle to headline Rochdale Feel Good Festival with Ash and Starsailor

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• Heywood HMO protest to go ahead despite council plea to move from memorial gardens

  Organisers of a protest against plans for a house in multiple occupation next to Woodlands Primary School say the demonstration will go ahead at Heywood Memorial Gardens despite Rochdale Council asking them to relocate the event.

• Man jailed for 26 years after decades of sexual abuse against five children

  A man has been jailed for 26 years after being convicted of 31 offences including rape, sexual assault and indecent assault against five children over a period spanning more than two decades.

• Four more Bury North schools to offer free breakfast clubs from September

  Four primary schools in Bury North will begin offering free breakfast clubs from September under the government’s expansion of its Best Start programme.

• Poll suggests Rochdale shoppers see themselves as big spenders

  A poll carried out at Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre found that six in ten people who took part described themselves as big spenders rather than savers.