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• Global street artists to transform Rochdale town centre into outdoor gallery this September

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• Cancer survivors invited to join uplifting Bolton choir for special ‘Sing With Us’ event

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• Rochdale family leads heartfelt campaign for rare disease as World Mitochondrial Disease Week approaches

  A Rochdale family is urging the public to support World Mitochondrial Disease Week this September, as they shine a light on a devastating condition affecting their teenage son.

• Akinwale Arobieke, man banned from touching muscles, dies aged 64 in Liverpool

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• Lost wartime decoy reappears at Rochdale reservoir during drought

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• Bury singer Elliot James Reay to support Benson Boone on US tour

  A rising music star from Bury will make his biggest international debut yet as he joins pop sensation Benson Boone on the first leg of his “American Heart World Tour” across the United States.