Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. The M62 has been shut westbound between junction 19 and junction 18 I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice The M62 has closed after a crash involving several vehicles left one person suffering “serious and life-changing injuries” The westbound carriageway of the motorway has been shut between junctions 18 Simister Island Interchange and junction 19 near Heywood in Rochdale A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police confirmed officers were called to the incident involving two lorries and a vehicle between the two junctions at 1.30pm A force spokesperson added one person had suffered “serious and life-changing injuries” and was taken to hospital North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) shared in a statement: "One woman was released from a vehicle and taken to the hospital for further treatment." The emergency service response to the serious collision has caused severe traffic and delays on the busy motorway route. Traffic cameras show drivers caught in the closure out of their vehicles In a statement, a Highways England spokesperson said: “The M62 is closed westbound between Junction 19 near (Heywood) and Junction 18 due to a collision “Emergency Services are on scene. National Highways traffic officers are on in attendance to assist with traffic management.” Travel service Inrix has shared the latest update: "M62 Westbound closed severe delays due to accident from J19 A6046 Middleton Road (Heywood) to J18 M66 J4 (Simister Island)." It adds that there is congestion to junction 21 for Milnrow, with delays on routes around Rochdale, Chadderton, Oldham and Middleton as traffic diverts." 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Floods of Fear (1958) a thriller set in the USA with imported star Howard Keel; The Heart of a Man (1959) a Frankie Vaughan musical; Upstairs and Downstairs (1959) The studio also loaned her out to an Italian company to make a peplum This really was a proper star-building effort from Rank for Anne Heywood made by big-at-the-time British directors (Ralph Thomas Rank even tried to launch Heywood as a singer releasing a single by her from Heart of a Man on its record label especially as Heywood hadn’t arrived at the studio off the back of anything notable like a popular or critically acclaimed movie and the studio had changed the name under which she had achieved that fame Rank may have been determined to boost Heywood in part because it had recently fired several other actresses it had been building into stars – Belinda Lee and Maureen Swanson – due to their personal life antics; no doubt the studio hoped to prove it could turn anyone into a star And Heywood clearly had tremendous drive and ability to get publicity though – none of Heywood’s films for Rank were hits all the movies basically cast her as “the girl” Rank then loaned out Heywood to United Artists to play “the girl” in A Terrible Beauty (1960) a film about the IRA with Robert Mitchum and Richard Harris an independent British filmmaker who specialised in edgy stories that used imported American stars in the lead (Flesh is Weak she and Stross fell in love at first sight despite him being married; Stross soon got a divorce to wed Anne (his ex remarried quickly Rank found itself with a female contract player who was causing headlines due to a romance with a married man The studio did not offer her any more roles “I’m fed up with playing wishy-washy good girls,” Heywood said “I want to play women with sex appeal.” In particular Heywood would have been aware of how Belinda Lee revitalised her career post-Rank playing sexy parts in Italy “I’ve got plenty of sex appeal,” insisted Heywood “British films just didn’t give me the chance to use it They are written around men.” In December 1960 Heywood broke off her contract with Rank two years early Petticoat Pirates (1961) and Stork Talk (1962) then starred in three films all produced by her husband aimed at turning Heywood into a star: The Brain (1962) a version of Donovan’s Brain from Freddie Francis; The Very Edge (1963) a thriller where Heywood is raped and stalked; and Ninety Degrees in the Shade (1965) as a woman having an affair with a married man Audiences didn’t particularly seem to care although The Brain has gained a cult fanbase Heywood made a Hollywood film shot in Peru but filming was abandoned after star Eric Fleming (from TV’s Rawhide) drowned during filming She had better luck establishing herself in the US with The Fox (1967) produced in Canada by her husband from a novella by DH Lawrence; Heywood played a Canadian farmer living with Sandy Dennis whose life is interrupted by the arrival of Keir Dullea Heywood utterly committed to the part – going nude The movie was done with taste by director Mark Rydell and had just the right amount of sexual content for 1967 audiences: it was a huge hit Heywood returned to sexually explicit material with a nunsploitation film shot in Italy a nun accused of breaking celibacy and plotting murder she and Stross made Midas Run (1969) with Richard Crenna who says Heywood arranged for the script to be changed to suit her She was in The Chairman (1969) with Gregory Peck she played the female led in Trader Horn (1973) If Heywood struggled to get a foothold in Hollywood she was in much demand in Italy: The Killer is on the Phone (1972) more nunsploitation; First Time on the Grass (1974) Heywood did two more remarkably gutsy performances: I Want What I Want (1972) playing a man who has a sex change; and Good Luck as a lonely teacher sexually assaulted by a black janitor (from a script by Polly Platt and a novel by William Inge and very ‘70s television direction from Marvin Chomsky) Neither managed to recapture the success of The Fox although both have plenty for a viewer to chew over We’re particularly surprised there isn’t more critical discussion over Miss Wyckoff considering its frank content and Polly Platt authorship – there is certainly a lot going on Heywood mostly worked in television – including a role in Don Sharp’s What Waits Below (1984) She was brave and had a tremendous work ethic She wanted to make something special of her life so she did whatever was needed – whether entering some silly beauty contest These were not “done” things at the time for most established white actresses even after The Fox – there was something a little distant about her persona perhaps; she lacked the warmth Her acting had its limitations and many of her movies badly needed better directors The leader of Rochdale Borough Council has welcomed a £20 million government funding boost for Heywood as part of the government’s Plan for Neighbourhoods initiative Councillor Neil Emmott said the cash injection would enhance the council’s ambitious regenerations plans for Middleton Heywood is one of just 75 areas to get a share of the £1.5 billion government package create jobs and transform local communities complementing the council’s vision to transform the town centre with new homes enhance safety and create new green spaces Decisions on how the £20 million will be spent will be taken by the local Neighbourhood Board businesses and community campaigners and is already working on an investment plan to be submitted to government later this year “Today’s welcome government announcement is about putting control in the hands of local people who are best placed to decide how they want this money spent Following on from the council’s radical budget proposals this is another boost for our ambitious regeneration plans for township areas like Heywood and Middleton The funding boost underlines both the council’s and government’s commitment to invest in our communities and unleash the enormous potential we have locally” You can browse from our homepage or use the search box above to find the information you need Call: 0345 646 0502 Mobile: 0781 278 0227 Will has a wide range of banking and finance law expertise.  His background is corporate and leveraged acquisition finance and has worked on several high-profile acquisitions and syndicated multi-stream corporate financings he has worked on asset financings in the developing markets natural resources space and several multi-jurisdictional general corporate and invoice discounting lines across Europe in senior and mezzanine lender-side Real Estate acquisition development and bridge finance including background funding lines A-note lines and loan-on-loan structures.  Call: 0345 646 0502 Mobile: 0781 278 0227 our wide ranging expertise is here to support you and your business so let’s start your legal journey today and get you in touch with the right lawyer to get you started 0330 100 1014 For general enquiries, please complete this form and we will direct your message to the most appropriate person. 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Sign our campaign for a grant funding review Plans for the Civic Centre were drawn up by K2 Architects Preston-based Conlon Construction has been appointed to extend and modernise the community hub that has provided events for the town for decades The total contract value reaches up to £5.5m Rochdale Development Agency directed the project on behalf of the council K2 Architects and Your Trust were also involved The building found off Pine Street will see a café and bar installed at its front and upgrades to the performance space to improve lighting and sound Retractable seating is to be installed in the centre’s auditorium Improvements will also be made to boost the building’s accessibility and sustainability credentials The centre’s auditorium will be upgraded with improved lighting and sound for its audience commercial director at Conlon Construction said: “This renovation is about more than modernising the building; it’s about creating a vibrant positive impact on the local community.” He continued: “From creating apprenticeships and training opportunities to collaborating with local suppliers and talent this project represents our dedication to investing in the people and places we serve.” Conlon Construction has hired local operatives and apprentices to work on the project part-time and is offering 20 weeks of training opportunities for local T-level students The contractor has a strong regional reputation Funding for the centre has been sourced from Rochdale Council which will operate the facility and be responsible for readying the building for the public cabinet member for communities and cooperation at Rochdale Council said: “This Arts Council England-supported project will really lift the cultural offer in this area and enable it to put on an even wider variety of productions which will attract people from the local area and beyond.” Cllr Danny Meredith, cabinet member for housing and regeneration at Rochdale Council, noted that the project is a part of the town’s wider masterplan which includes 72 affordable homes that are already being built at the former Marina Ropeworks site Heywood is one of the 55 areas across the country that received £20m in funding from the Towns Fund to support their regeneration use the reference number 23/01241/FUL on Rochdale Council’s planning portal Read our comments policy Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" The borough claims it has a ‘disproportionately high number of HMOs’ and is pursuing the introduction of measures to wrestle back control The housing association is working with main contractor Caddick to build 69 social rent homes for over 55s and a GP surgery on 2.5 acres of disused land on Arrow Street in Broughton Register for free North West property intelligence Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" Join more than 13,000 property professionals and sign up to receive your free daily round-up of built environment news direct to your inbox By subscribing, you are agreeing to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy. Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_3" ).setAttribute( "value" Tom Roebuck and Bevan Rodd all return to Alex Sanderson’s starting XV to face Newcastle Falcons in our final pre-season friendly before the start of the new Gallagher Premiership season (Saturday 7th September Hyron Andrews and Gus Warr also return to the team to face Steve Diamond’s men at Heywood Road while Fiji skipper Waisea Nayacelevu starts again in the number 13 shirt.  The game is part of a double-header to mark 25 years of Sale Sharks with a PWR Up Series clash against Loughborough Lightning (KO 2pm) and Rachel Taylor has named three debutants in her side including internationals Alba Capell and Olivia Ortiz.  Cowan-Dickie and Opoku-Fordjour to start in a powerful Sharks front-row and they’ll have South African duo Ernst van Rhyn and Andrews behind them in the second-row.  England flanker Tom Curry joins his brother Ben and Jean-Luc du Preez in the back row.  Newly capped Scotland international Gus Warr is named at scrum-half alongside George Ford who will have Rob du Preez and Nayacelevu outside him in the centres.  who won his first England cap against Japan and Joe Carpenter form an exciting men’s back three Sharks Women Head Coach Rachel Taylor has gone with a familiar front-row to kick off Sharks Women’s season Niamh Swailes and co-captain Tysh Harper getting the nod Iona Antwis and Molly Morrissey will form a towering second row with debutants Trudy Cowan and Spanish star Capell joining Jo Brown in the back-row USA international Ortiz starts at scrum-half and she’ll have co-captain Lizzie Duffy alongside her at number 10 Laura Perrin and Beatrice Rigoni make up the centre pairing Sophie Hopkins and Nikita Prothero picked in the back three  Sale Sharks Women Starting XV:    *denotes a player making their Sharks debut Stalwart of the British stage who was also known for her film roles in Romeo and Juliet and 10 Rillington Place who was wrongly convicted and hanged for the murders Christie had committed Heywood was the staunch and reliable leader of any creative ensemble, and her reputation for being the heart, the backbone, of the regional theatre, stemmed from her earliest days at the Bristol Old Vic and her meeting there with the actor and director Oliver Neville starting with the Old Vic’s tour to India in 1962 When he was appointed principal at Rada in London in 1986 while managing to maintain a busy career on stage and screen had her hands full with the children – to Manchester and then Nottingham where Pat attended West Bridgford grammar school (and where the writer Malcolm Bradbury was a contemporary) but had to leave before completing her exams as the family funds were over-stretched She worked in the Nottingham central library and as an auxiliary nurse before joining the Bristol Old Vic theatre school she was immediately taken on as an actor/assistant stage manager and made her stage debut in the 1952-53 season in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Sheridan’s 18th-century The Duenna Before Salad Days – whose multitasking cast of 12 included Reynolds herself Alan Dobie and Eric Porter – Heywood was also Dunyasha in The Cherry Orchard in 1953 then moved on to seasons in the late 50s in Nottingham Her West End prominence in the 70s was capped by a wonderfully stern, comic performance in Mary O’Malley’s award-winning satirical and inoffensively blasphemous comedy Once a Catholic (1977) at the Royal Court and the Wyndham’s (where it ran for over two years) delivering a final speech as Mother Peter to the departing convent girls: “Remember that God made your bodies for himself … All parts of the body are sacred but none more so than the parts connected with the mystery of motherhood.” Pat Heywood and Richard Attenborough as John and Ethel Christie in the 1971 film 10 Rillington Place. Photograph: SNAPHeywood joined the National Theatre in 1979 to play in excellent solid productions of JB Priestley’s When We Are Married and the Victorian melodrama The Ticket-of-Leave Man by Tom Taylor in which she was memorable as a loquacious granny in a “stunning cast” that included Jack Shepherd she returned to the Bristol Old Vic as Paulina – a wonderful role to match her quiet constancy and humanity – in The Winter’s Tale and as the more lubricious Kath in Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane she popped up in one of the West End’s most notorious flops – the Rocky Horror Show writer Richard O’Brien’s Top People (1984) at the Ambassadors as a newly widowed niece and her sick aunt Other films included a touching coming-of-age sex comedy, Getting It Right (1989), in which she played the concerned mother of an attractive boy (Jesse Birdsall) assailed by women – Lynn Redgrave Helena Bonham-Carter and Jane Horrocks – on all sides Not Just Travel has appointed Richard Lowrey-Heywood as business development manager to offer training and support for its homeworking agents He joins the company from Seaside Travel, where he was brand manager Lowrey-Heywood started his first travel job after leaving school aged 16 and his other roles since then have included holiday repping in Rhodes retail management at Thomas Cook and being a contact centre agent at Jet2.com and Jet2holidays He has since undertaken Not Just Travel’s induction training alongside new starters joining the agency’s 720+ homeworking travel consultants The new BDM said he had not been looking to move until he saw the job advert from Not Just Travel I’m so obsessed with travel that I even love living under a flight path,” he said “The job is incredibly exciting; to be able to help people who have taken the leap of faith and start businesses in travel makes my heart swell “I’m excited to help consultants develop their businesses “My priorities are to be there whenever my consultants need me and share the knowledge I have earned “I love social media and have built successful businesses off the back of promoting authentic content that is true to you and your values don’t try to be perfect; people want to do business with the real you.” said: “Richard’s passion and energy is infectious and he’s already a real asset to our team “We’ve created a system that hones in on actions that directly boost sales recruiting BDMs who instil confidence in our consultants to sell with passion and authenticity.” Following his departure after two-and-a-half years from Seaside Travel, the 13-branch agency promoted a raft of its long-standing shop managers to create a senior management team to cover his responsibilities Jacobs Media is a company registered in England and Wales Greater Manchester Police confirmed that Ivy Costa has been charged with two counts of indecent exposure The charges relate to incidents reported during the early morning hours of Sunday 31 March and Friday 5 April 2025 Costa appeared at Manchester and Salford Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning (12 April 2025) He is due to appear again at Tameside Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 17 June 2025 The defendant has been placed under strict bail conditions including a curfew and the use of an electronic monitoring device A GMP spokesperson said the investigation remains ongoing and urged anyone with information to come forward Reports of sexual offences can be made by calling 101 to speak with specially trained officers information can be passed anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 Want to tell us about something happening in our Borough Let us know by emailing newsdesk@rochvalleyradio.com Subscribe to our newsletter and stay updated Roch Valley Radio is a not-for-profit radio station serving Bury and Rochdale including the surrounding areas on DAB, your Smart Speakers and Online. Guy Heywood stepped down from his role as vice president of sales marketing and business strategy at Hankook Europe effective January 2025 to take up a new role as vice president supporting Hankook in Europe as an “internal consultant” and with “strategic projects management” Tyrepress and Tyres & Accessories subscribers can log in below to read the full article If you are not yet a Tyrepress or Tyres & Accessories subscriber Subscribe now If you would like the latest news from the Chinese tyre industry in Chinese, visit our partner site TyrepressChina.com Ollie Heywood’s loan with Leek Town has been extended until the end of the season The 21-year-old full-back joined Leek in September after starting the season out on loan with Hanley Town Heywood has made 16 appearances for Leek so far this term are a community benefit society operating under the name of Chester Football Club and are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority The club is fan owned and does not have any major shareholders