‘Exciting milestone’ as Waterhead Academy celebrates national award for attendance 

WATERHEAD Academy is celebrating an ‘exciting milestone’ in its improvement journey after receiving national recognition for student attendance.  The establishment, on Huddersfield Road in Lees, has received the National…

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Funding admission as Moorgate Halt replacement cost detailed at inquiry 

HAVING to replace a Saddleworth level crossing with a footbridge would add millions of pounds to a multi-billion pound rail project’s cost.  But those behind Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) admitted…

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Ascot Ladies’ Day event promises frocks, fascinators and fundraising for hospice

“PUTTING THE ‘fun’ in ‘fundraising’” is how Joanne Penketh describes Saddleworth’s biggest women’s fashion event of the year.  She is talking, of course, about the…

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Saddleworth author’s upcoming book a ‘cultural celebration’ of Ireland – and Mossley 

“IMAGINE being sent away at 19-years-old and being invited with an old school friend to live in an Atlantic seaside cottage, by a legendary folk singer…

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