A man grabbed and attacked the child in an alleyway near to Partington Street and Sabden Close at around 2.30pm on Sunday.

The teenagers smacked and kicked Kelly Harding and beat her 15-year-old son, biting him on the neck, during the terrifying ordeal on Back o'th' Moss.

The 17-year-old required 16 staples for two head wounds after being attacked near to Tesco Express.

Gary Tatton, aged nine, was playing in the park with friends when a metal bar holding the swing up collapsed, hitting Gary in the face and stomach.

The event, which has provided entertainment for generations of Heywood families, takes place in Queen’s Park this Sunday, September 5.

The waste, which included old furniture, toys, Christmas decorations and even a rocking horse, was left near to the recycling bins off Pine Street last Thursday night and reported to the council on Friday morning.

Andrew Spratt, 21, is currently on a football scholarship at Missouri Valley College and his team, The Vikings, is hoping to make the national US championships in Alabama.

Officials have organised a meeting to gather ideas on how to save St Luke’s Church from closure.

Two years ago, Leilah Wright spent her Friday nights sharing vodka with friends, but she is now training to be a youth mentor and spends her spare time helping other young people.

The partnership between Heywood Rotary Club and the Advertiser presented a cheque for £200 to Heywood and District Angling Society.

This Saturday, September 4, the town centre will once again be transformed into a scene from days gone by.

Seventy-one per cent of students achieved five A* to C grades including English and maths after six years of sustained improvement.

The GCSE results were the borough's best ever, with 51 per cent achieving five top grades with the core subjects, compared with 47 per cent in 2009 and 43 per cent in 2008.

Pupils from the old Heywood Grammar School, which closed its doors on Hind Hill Street more than 40 years ago, are gathering at Heywood Cricket Club on September 10.

Heywood Charities Fete takes place on Sunday, September 5 and this year, the parade takes a western theme.

Queen’s Park was chosen as the setting for a children’s TV channel’s latest advert and will be seen by millions of viewers across the country.

The partnership between the Heywood Advertiser and Heywood Rotary Club presented a cheque for £200 to St James’s Church to support the ongoing drive for church funds.

Heywood's branch of the Royal British Legion raised £9,113 during last autumn's campaign, showing a determined desire to help the charity, despite the ongoing recession.

The event takes place on Monday, August 30, with music starting at 12noon and carrying on until the early hours.

The 17-year-old suffered a punctured lung on Rose Hill Street and is in a stable condition in hospital.

We are interested to hear from anyone who has done particularly well or has an unusual story to tell about their exams experience.

Our beautiful park continues to retain the lead position in Keep Britain Tidy's league table, which invites members of the public to vote for the 'People's Choice' site of the year Green Flag park or green space.

The watchdog carried out an inspection of the service provision in July and concluded that improvements have been made since the last inspection, but that more work is needed.

The founder of the Heywood and Middleton Lourdes group, Dominic Kenny, took the opportunity to propose to fellow charity worker, Kathryn Thompson – and she said ‘yes’.

Declan Curzon, 19, graduated at RAF Halton in Aylesbury after a gruelling training programme – despite discovering two weeks into his course that he suffered from dyslexia.

Nico Mirallegro, who currently plays Newt in Hollyoaks, has been filming on location for Bittersweet Pictures’ independant feature film, McQueen.

Peter Cordwell appeared at Bury County Court, where he promised to work within certain regulations at his Collop Gate Farm site.

Operation Quasar started at the end of July and runs throughout the school break.

A line-up of free entertainment has been organised to tickle tastebuds and fill the town with live music, which organisers say will be the biggest ever seen in the event’s history.

Jennifer Thomson, now living in Heywood, was 16 when she was given the order for ‘heaping misery’ on the people of Littleborough, Rochdale.

Firefighters from Heywood and Bury were called to one of the classrooms in the derelict building at 8.36pm on Tuesday, August 10.

The unit was given a reprieve last month when the new health secretary told staff he would review the decision to end night time maternity services at the unit.

The 'to be a pilgrim' event showed off the displays of numerous flower arrangers and was co-ordinated by horticulturists June Starkie and Jean Williams.

Councillors refused the application over concerns it would have a detrimental effect on nearby businesses.

The pool, which is named after Heywood’s Commonwealth Gold medal swimming champion, Christine Gaskell, closed its doors for the final time on Saturday, July 31.

The unfinished structure has loomed over surrounding homes on Rochdale Lane, Smith Street and Brierley Street since the building developer, Weldon Homes, went into administration some two years ago.

Veterans have reacted with outrage after the iconic monument in the Memorial Gardens was attacked using dye made from flower petals.

Dean, 36 and Stella Kelsall, 41, tied the knot at The Bolholt Hotel, Bury and Dean has arranged a secret honeymoon for the couple.

Royal Horticultural Society experts, John Bilsborough and Malcolm Eubank, were taken on a whistle-stop tour of our best green sites as part of Heywood's first ever entry to the national RHS In Bloom competition.

Father Paul Daly, of St Joseph's Church, was ordained on July 22, 1990, meaning he has now passed his china anniversary. He has shared some of his fondest memories from the past two decades with the Advertiser.

Staff at Double R Controls Ltd are working flat out to deal with their latest deal in Brazil and Argentina.

As the 10-year project comes to a close, we are looking at the investment made in different areas and this week feature a piece about TOPS Business Centre.

Matthew Cust and Adam Grace have launched MCD Construction Consultancy at a Doctor Fold Lane office after leaving their jobs at a Denton-based architectural practice.

Commercial Catering Spares has found a new home at the growing Axis Point development at Hareshill Business Park and is currently recruiting new staff.

Glynis Liley was arrested after neighbours, appalled by her cruelty, set up a camcorder outside her home to catch her in the act.

Darren Moores, aged 41, of Newbury Grove, was arrested in Slough last week after two shipments of the drug were found in a hired van.

AFM News on Bridge Street received a letter from Camelot declaring that the shop has sold a Lotto ticket worth more than £100,000 to a mystery shopper in recent weeks.

Figures reveal that Labour, the Lib Dems and Conservatives spent a total of £24,717 canvassing for votes in the run up to this year's general election.

Officials have now filled the 25m pool to carry out tests, 10 weeks before it officially opens to the public.

The Bench Diaries, made by 12 young people from the Catch 22 charity in Heywood, was short-listed in the 'experimental' category at the Limelight Film and Arts Awards 2010, which is referred to as the Oscar's of short films.

Peter Chadwick, owner of Gelderwood Country Park, Ashworth Valley, had wanted to put two static caravans in the park, but Rochdale Township Planning sub-committee rejected the application on the grounds that it was an inappropriate development in the green belt.

The school was filmed for forthcoming Sky1 TV show Promzilla, with a visit by celebrity stylists Gary Cockerill, Brix Smith and Stephen Glendinning, in the hours before the students' big night.

At July's Heywood Township meeting, the Bury Old Road and Berwick Close areas were said to be in need of urgent attention because of speeding motorists.

On Friday, July 16, canvassers will be collecting signatures in Heywood Market, between 11am and 2pm.

The Heywood in Bloom steering group has been working hard to draw up a route for the visit on Wednesday, July 21.

The dilapidated site has been on English Heritage's at risk register for seven years, but this year has been given the most serious category A rating, which is reserved for buildings in need of urgent action.

And firefighters came to the rescue after recent heat wave began to take its toll on Heywood's fish.

This week, we are examining the achievements made in education, schools and Sure Start.

The world champion plans to tie the knot to fellow star swimmer David Carry in the September after the London 2012 Olympics.

A party was held for members of the Friends group, dignitaries and park users to mark the milestone on Sunday, July 11.

The explosions were triggered by the theft of copper cable from a nearby electricity sub-station.

John Barrett Junior, 21, was wounded by a rocket-propelled grenade in August 2008, while serving in Helmand Province.

On Monday education minister Michael Gove announced that more than 700 schools across the country will no longer be rebuilt or refurbished through BSF.

The Sutherland Road gates were locked for the last time in the building’s 45-year history, following an emotional and poignant final day last Wednesday.

Residents on Queen’s Park Road have found their flowers disappearing as Heywood in Bloom – which sees the town judged on its horticultural and environmental merits – draws nearer.

Samba band Battuta led the annual parade through the estate on Saturday, starting at Argyle Parade before making its way to St Margaret’s Primary School.

Sunday, July 11, is the 21st birthday party of the Friends group which continually works to make the park a place for all residents to enjoy.

The town’s first Veterans’ Day parade of recent years was organised by the Lancashire Veterans Association and proudly marched through the town centre on Sunday, June 27.

The George Street surgery has organised a health and wellbeing fair on Saturday, July 10, between 10am and 2pm.  

Alex Pearson, 23, was told he would never walk again after the taxi he was a passenger in collided with another car on Bury New Road last January.

Shortly after 9.10pm on Wednesday June 23 police were called to an address in School Street, following reports a woman had taken an overdose.

At around 6am on Friday three armed men broke into a house in Manchester Road, near to the junctions with Bader Drive and Mercers Road.

The gates to the school, which has served generations of pupils, closed for the final time on Wednesday when it shut as part of the Building Schools for the Future programme.

The George Street surgery has organised a health and wellbeing fair on Saturday, July 10, between 10am and 2pm.

The Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch is coming to St James’ Church as part of his pilgrimage to visit all 335 parishes in the diocese of Manchester.

The former Dressers Arms on Dawson Street has been revamped as The Grants Arms in a tribute from new manager, James Grant, to his late father.

National Grid has been working on Middleton Road since April, on a £400,000 project to replace 2km of pipes.

The three men in balcalvas took a knife and baseball bats to the house on Manchester Road, Heywood at around 6am today (Friday).

The unit was due stop providing overnight care to mums-to-be and children next summer, with patients facing journeys to new multi-million pound units at North Manchester and Bolton General Hospitals.

The 40-year-old lady, who does not want to be named, was walking to work with her white stick on Monday, June 14, at around 8.20am, when the teenagers surrounded her, tossed her hair and waved their hands in front of her face.

Rochdale Cabinet approved the sale of number 88 Hill Street and adjacent vacant land in a bid to stimulate regeneration in the area.

The Argos Distribution Centre community team, based at Heywood Distribution Centre, won the best Group of Volunteers award at the Rochdale Council for Voluntary Service’s annual presentation.

That is the message shops and businesses affected by the ongoing roadworks want to convey to Advertiser readers.

Born in Back Starkey Street, Heywood, on June 21, 1910, Elizabeth moved to nearby Queen’s Park Road with her parents Elizabeth and Charles and her younger brother Charlie when she was 10 years old.

St John's scouts troop has been established for 100 years and a reunion took place on Saturday, June 19, for past and current members, leaders and friends.

Fairfield General Hospital in Bury was due to stop providing overnight care to mums-to-be and children next summer.

The existing Gaskell Pool is due to close at the end of July, and the new pool at Heywood Sports Village will not open to the public until Monday, September 20.

A meeting takes place at the Civic Centre on Tuesday, June 22, between 6pm and 9pm, and groups are invited to express their interest in using the new facilities.

Heywood Business Group, Heywood Market and Link4Life teamed up for a football extravaganza to get the town in the mood to cheer on the national side.

Members past and present of the 1st Heywood St John’s group are reuniting at the Ashworth Valley campsite on Saturday, June 19, for an afternoon and evening of commemorative celebrations.

But two residential lanes off Egerton Street have gone all out in showing their pride in the national football side.

Nicola Cunningham, 22, spent 10 weeks in six different communities in the northern state of Rajasthan, where she discovered the harsh realities of life in one of the poorest parts of the world.

Andy Hargreaves, of High Street, is the star of the breakfast show on the recently launched Rossendale Radio.

Youngsters from the Year 5 class studied the 1665 Great Plague of London, in all its gory, gloomy and gruesome detail, before producing their own news broadcasts about the horrific episode.

The Woodfield Terrace site has been plagued by vandals for years, but attacks are getting more and more prevalent.