Charity appeal

MARIE Curie Cancer Care is searching for volunteers in Failsworth.

The role will involve collecting money from tins in local businesses, counting and banking the cash and completing paperwork. Volunteers will also be expected to find local shops and businesses to take a collection tin. Contact Anne-Marie on 0161-255 2809.


LOCALS keen for some close encounters of the bird kind are invited to an annual day of monitoring at Daisy Nook. The free bird-watching event will take place between 7 and 9am on Saturday with representatives from the British Trust for Ornithology. Call Gillian Mankarious on 0161-770 4056.


POLICE are urging Failsworth residents to make sure they lock their car doors after a recent theft. Local officers were called out in the early hours of Wednesday to deal with an incident on Minor Street.


FAILSWORTH will be playing its part in the annual Rochdale Canal Festival between August 18 and 26. It will include a range of free activities including arts workshops, parades, volunteering events, heritage and nature walks and talks, boat trips and horse-boating demonstrations between Sowerby Bridge and Manchester city centre.


OLDHAM Council planners have warned of potential problems surrounding the extension of a primary school car park. Permission was granted for an extra 21 car-parking spaces at Limehurst Primary School, Whitebank Road. But the site is within a coal mining area which, according to council documents, may contain “unrecorded mining-related hazards.”


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