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Long-awaited plans to build 223 homes on a retail park on the edge of Rochdale town centre have been submitted. Developer Willmott Dixon has applied for planning permission on behalf of Rochdale council for Central Retail Park off Drake Street.

Police have released an image of a man they want to speak with after a 13-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in a town centre alleyway. Greater Manchester Police said the image was used on a social media account that was contacting the victim before the incident.

Two friends have been convicted of murder after an Uber driver was brutally killed. Ali Asghar, 38, was set upon by 20-year-old Connor McPartland and 18-year-old Martin Treacy after the pair got into his Mercedes taxi on Halloween weekend last year.

Amelia was just a child when she met her abuser in Rochdale town centre in 2009. Still dressed in her uniform, the schoolgirl was flattered by the older boy who asked for her number.

A teenager has been charged after officers raced to Rochdale last week over a report of a suspected suspicious item. Police were called at around 3.10am last Thursday (April 21) to the item on Dane Street.

A huge blast echoed across Rochdale town centre this morning as the bomb squad carried out a controlled explosion on a 'suspicious device'.

The picture of a neat football ground dwarfed by a vast nearby factory was taken 92 years go.

A man is fighting for his life in hospital after being punched and knocked unconscious at the end of a night out in Rochdale town centre.

The towns in Greater Manchester have always held a fierce pride in their own sense of identity and community.

Police have released images of a man they want to speak to after a 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in Rochdale town centre.

A man who faced two crown court trials accused of manslaughter has been found not guilty after prosecutors offered no further evidence.

Jurors have been unable to reach a verdict in the trial of a man who allegedly knocked out a rival during a 3am row - moments before he was run over by a taxi and killed.

Two drug dealers led police on a terrifying chase through a Rochdale village armed with a machete.

A man knocked out a rival during a 3am row in a street seconds before his victim was run over and killed by a taxi, a court heard.

Two women have died following a crash in Cheshire.

Police have discovered a 'large and sophisticated' cannabis farm on the outskirts of Rochdale town centre.

Police have launched an investigation after a tram driver ended up in hospital following an assault at a Metrolink stop.

A young man who racked up £35,000 of debts killed himself by throwing himself from the ninth storey of a Rochdale town centre car park.

Rochdale town centre was completely packed out to welcome the astonishing Little Amal puppet, as she made her penultimate stop on an epic 8,000km journey.

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