In Rochdale, lights on Drake ... The borough’s Christmas tree, stripped of decorations, cuts a forlorn figure outside the town hall. A number of decorations still remain above the streets ...

We may be enjoying an unseasonal autumn heatwave but preparations are already being made for Christmas. As Rochdale ... Town hall bosses say workmen are combining putting up the decorations ...

Final preparations are under way to ignite the Fire Festival in Rochdale town centre this weekend, leading up to the Christmas lights switch-on at the town hall. Ignite will be transforming ...

The bells of Rochdale Town Hall will replace the usual chimes of Big Ben on BBC Radio 4 this Christmas Eve. A recording of the 13.7 tonne bell, which hangs in the Elizabeth Tower in Westminster ...

The chimes that mark Radio 4's 6pm news this Christmas Eve could sound a little ... This year the bells of Rochdale Town Hall will ring instead of the in Parliament's Elizabeth Tower, The Sunday ...

Rochdale's will be the only bells - other than Big Ben - used over the festive period The traditional Big Ben bongs on BBC Radio 4 will be replaced by bells from Rochdale town hall on Christmas Eve.

The building has been re-serviced, the roofs and external masonry repaired, the interior decoration conserved and the stained glass cleaned. Indeed, the Town Hall now houses a stained-glass studio as ...