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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.

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.

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.

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direct to your inboxA nine-year-old boy has written a heartfelt appeal to flagstone thieves targeting his beloved church.

direct to your inboxPolice have shared images of an enormous cannabis farm they found at a 'business premises'.Officers said they executed a drugs warrant at the address on Cheetham Street in Rochdale town centre.Inside they found a 'sophisticated' cannabis growing operation with 170 plants at various stages of maturity.Police said the drugs had an estimated street value of £136,000.GMP Rochdale did not state whether any arrests have been made but said an investigation is ongoing.Police have had several successes targeting drug supply in Rochdale this year.The M.E.N reported last week how a woman who laundered money and allowed her home to be used to store cannabis was found to have a number of 24 carat gold bars worth thousands of pounds.

hereBut the news has devastated those who own businesses and work in the centre, and left shoppers extremely disappointed by the loss of the Baillie Street centre.We visited Rochdale town centre to ask shoppers how they felt about the Wheatsheaf closing.Christina regularly visited the centre to meet friends at the cafe, and says it is 'awful' that people will now lose the social connections it offered.Christina, who asked us not to use her last name, said: "The little cafe in there is a lovely meeting place for people"Older, retired people meet there for coffee. There's a piano there, they have a pianist come in.

New data shows Leicester still has the highest rate of coronavirus infections in England - but three new hotspots have been identified in worrying data.

A terrified victim of Rochdale's infamous child sex grooming gang has told how her heart 'stopped beating' when she bumped into her freed abuser while shopping in Asda.