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Cutting edge: metal cutting company booming following council grant

A Middleton metal company is boosting jobs after becoming the first business in the UK to own a state-of-the-art fibre optic metal cutting machine, with the help of a council grant.

Concept Metals Ltd in Mills

Heywood bridal boutique says ‘I do’ to council’s business rates sale

Heywood’s only bridal boutique is gearing up for its first wedding season, as vacancy rates tumble in the town, thanks to the council’s business rates sale.

Lavinia Rose Bridal in Market Place is marking

Record planning income shows growing confidence in Rochdale

The first ever £1 million annual planning income for the council is being seen as a sign of growing confidence in the borough as a place for business investment.

A clutch of major investments helped push Rochdale

On the front foot! New Middleton scheme boosts shop facades

Shops in the Middleton town centre conservation area have been given a much-needed facelift, thanks to a council improvement scheme.

The businesses around Middleton Gardens and Fountain Street, many of which are in 19th century buildings,

Unemployed back on the job circuit with council-supported smart meter scheme

A group of formerly unemployed people from Rochdale are finding their career is ticking along nicely, thanks to a new jobs scheme, which will see them fit smart meters in people’s properties.

Twenty eight people

Young apprentices engineer better future with council scheme

A council scheme has given young apprentices, Matthew Steele and Lucas Stenhouse, extra bounce, with a job at local company Hanson Springs in the pipeline.

Matthew and Lucas are two of 17 apprentices who have taken advantage

Boulting Environmental Services inaugurates new Rochdale office

Cleanroom and laboratory design and construction specialist, Boulting Environmental Services (BES) officially opened its new office in Sandbrook Park, Rochdale on February 6, 2017. This impressive new facility, with excellent links to the motorway network, enables the business to continue

PTG’s Chief Executive Officer is presented with OBE

Dr Tony Bannan, 52, Chief Executive Officer of Rochdale-based Precision Technologies Group (PTG), received the OBE from HRH The Prince of Wales at an investiture at Buckingham Palace on Friday, 27 January 2017.

Dr Bannan was appointed an Officer