Rochdale play Crawley Town for the first time this weekend with manager Keith Hill in need of a result rather than a pretty performance.

Simon Danczuk MP is calling for the resignation of South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner Shaun Wright in the wake of Rotherham’s child sexual exploitation scandal.

A Rochdale road thug who repeatedly rammed a police car while driving a stolen Land Rover in a high-speed pursuit has been jailed for 15 months.

MM speak’s to a World War Two re-enactor keeping the memory of those who died during World War Two alive.

Hill took a gamble with his starting line-up in Tuesday’s 5-2 defeat of Crewe Alexandra – sticking last season’s left-back Matty Done up front which raised eyebrows – however the makeshift forward responded emphatically with a hat-trick.

Sir Peter Fahy should ‘get on and do’ his job, says MP John Leech, backing the Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable following a police watchdog probe.

Two goals either side of half time were enough for Preston North End to see off fellow League One outfit Rochdale at Spotland for a comfortable 2-0 win in the first round of the competition.

For the elite sides who already enjoy regular Champions League football the League Cup has increasingly become a competition in which to hand opportunities to youngsters, though not so for Manchester United this term.

Preston will play Rochdale in an all League One clash at Spotland in the first round on Tuesday after the pair began their league campaigns with a draw and a defeat respectively.

While Rochdale’s past campaign was all about securing promotion, the focus of the former FA Cup winners’ League One bow is likely to be staving off relegation as they prepare to welcome Peterborough on Saturday.

A cyclist has died following a collision with a truck in Rochdale on Monday afternoon.