Contents:
- Editor's welcome
- David Marshall Red Arrow engineer
- Feel Good Picnics are highlight of summer
- Hanson Springs celebrates 60 years
- New independent vet practice opens in Milnrow
- Noise phobias in dogs
- Lemon drizzle cake
- GEM Appeal Strawberry Sparkle Lunch
- Budding photographer’s snap of Ellenroad Engine House Steam Museum wins monthly contest
- Hairdressing trend - bubble bob
- Town hall restoration: new stained glass windows for Mayor’s Dining Room
- Rochdale Classic Car & Bike Show
- A short history of Hare Hill House: The Newall Family
- Success for Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club at the European Championships
- Tour of Britain »
- Health and wellbeing during Metal season
- Garlic chilli chicken with parmesan cream, gnocchi and seasonal tenderstem broccoli
- “It’s right on your doorstep and it deserves to be romanticised.”
- How late is too late to start saving for retirement?
- Rochdale scent company inspires employee to write children’s novel
- Rochdale Masonic Hall
- New specialised dementia garden launched at Springhill Hospice
- A typical week for a football lawyer
- Silver for Petrus at Tatton
- New ‘Chatty Café’ to reduce loneliness and social isolation opens in Rochdale town centre
- Local independent fashion retailers shortlisted for Drapers Awards
Autumn 2023Tour of Britain
Cyclists taking part in the Greater Manchester stage of the Tour of Britain were welcomed to Rochdale on Sunday 3 September.
Spectators lined the route to cheer on the peloton as cyclists made their way from High Crompton on Broad Lane to Oldham Road, before turning right at the central retail park onto Wood Street, Molesworth Street and up John Street.
The route then headed left onto St Mary’s Gate with riders turning right onto Spotland Road, continuing onto Edenfield Road and through Norden towards Edenfield.
The 163.6km anti-clockwise route around Greater Manchester started in Altrincham and finished at Deansgate.