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169 Article(s) Found

What better place to push for co-operation than Rochdale?

Commenting on the announcement by Government Minister Hazel Blears that a new duty to cooperate will mean key government service...

Date Online: 05/03/2008

Asbestos waste in Spodden Valley must be made safe

To co-incide with Action Mesothelioma Day the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a nationwide media campaign to raise...

Date Online: 26/02/2008

Action Mesothelioma Day - tribute to Abdul Chowdry

The ceremony to mark Action Mesothelioma Day will be held at the Asbestos Memorial in the memorial Gardens opposite the...

Date Online: 25/02/2008

Letter from Parliament

The last ten days continue to be extremely busy both in Westminster and in Rochdale. Following the floods in which...

Date Online: 07/02/2008

MP calls for complete ban on third party lobbying

An incident involving a Rochdale planning application was held up as the worst type of ‘spinning’ by an influential Common’s...

Date Online: 29/01/2008

Asbestos cancer drug approved

Save Spodden Valley campaigners have welcomed the annoucenment by NICE that it has rejected an appeal against its decision to...

Date Online: 23/01/2008

Remembering Abdul Chowdry

Friends of the late Abdul Chowdry are to donate a tree and park bench for Rochdale Memorial Gardens, opposite the...

Date Online: 23/01/2008

Ding Time Team prepares for action

An expert ‘time team’ has being formed to help Ding Quarry Campaigners.
Academics from the Britain, Germany, Iceland and Scandinavia have...

Date Online: 29/11/2007

Campaigners’ legal team named for Ding Quarry battle

Ding Quarry campaigners have just received a tremendous boost in their legal challenge against DP Williams’ planning application.
The Friends of...

Date Online: 28/11/2007

Spodden Valley group responds to Dexine development

After outline planning permission was granted on the Dexine Mill site on Spotland Road earlier this week, the Save Spodden...

Date Online: 20/12/2007

River Spodden clean up

A huge operation to remove burned out cars from the River Spodden has been carried out.
Ten car shells were removed...

Date Online: 23/11/2007

Final straw to scupper 600 homes on abestos site?

Spodden Valley campaigners say a planning approval for over 100 homes at the former Alexander Drew site at Mellor Street...

Date Online: 14/11/2007

5000 UK asbestos deaths remembered in bulb planting

Autumn sunshine greeted visitors to Rochdale’s beautiful Memorial Gardens to thank Rochdale Council’s Environmental Services Department and the British Trust...

Date Online: 11/11/2007

Ding Quarry - packed public meeting

A packed public meeting with standing room only in the Horners Suite at Rochdale AFC saw speaker after speaker from...

Date Online: 07/11/2007

Letter from Parliament

The media is at its best when it is in investigative mode – Would President Nixon ever have been impeached...

Date Online: 07/11/2007

The autumn glory of Spodden Valley, Healey Dell to Ding

The truism that “a picture can say a thousand words” may be seen in photographs just taken of the 'green...

Date Online: 06/11/2007

Danczuk calls for a calm approach to Ding Quarry campaign

Rochdale’s Labour Parliamentary Candidate Simon Danczuk has added his support to the Say No to Ding Quarry campaign, but has...

Date Online: 31/10/2007

Save Spodden Valley campaigners support Ding Quarry campaign

Save Spodden Valley (SSV) campaigners have offered their support to the Say NO to Ding Quarry campaign. SSV spokesman Jason...

Date Online: 29/10/2007

Lower Spodden Valley - green corridor proposal

A 'Spodden Gorge' subcommittee of the Spotland Area Forum has been formed and has proposed a community-led project to create...

Date Online: 25/09/2007

SSV supports Ding Quarry campaigners

Following discussions with local people and local politicians from all parties, the Save Spodden Valley campaign is supporting Ding Quarry...

Date Online: 25/10/2007

Letter from Parliament

When I visit schools, colleges or various groups, I’m often asked what it is like to be MP for Rochdale...

Date Online: 12/09/2007

Asbestos condition claims stopped

Thousands of British workers suffering from an asbestos-related condition will not be able to claim compensation, the Law Lords have...

Date Online: 17/10/2007

Mesothelioma sufferer pioneers new hope

Leigh Carlisle, a 27-year-old cancer sufferer who is pioneering new treatment for a deadly asbestos-related form of the illness, mesothelioma,...

Date Online: 11/10/2007

Councillors pay tribute after tragic death of Abdul Chowdry

Rochdale Councillors have paid tributes to the life of Abdul Chowdry, which was lost in a road traffic accident in...

Date Online: 27/07/2007

Abdul Chowdry dies in car crash tragedy

Former councillor Abdul Chowdry has died tragically in a road traffic accident in Pakistan.
Mr Chowdry was on his way to...

Date Online: 25/07/2007

MMC Estates not completed health and safety measures

At the recent TBA Working Party meeting Adrian Watson, Rochdale Council’s Chief Environmental Officer said that he was “extremely disappointed”...

Date Online: 04/10/2007

Flying Green Flags for picturesque parks

Three of the borough's parks and open spaces have been awarded Green Flag status after impressing judges.
Green Flags now fly...

Date Online: 17/07/2007

Rochdale Online readers invited to see asbestos TV documentary

An asbestos victim support group is helping to mark an important landmark in the history of health and safety.
It is...

Date Online: 08/08/2007

Asbestos campaigners call for 'bribing, bullying and bugging' investigation

Rochdale asbestos campaigners are backing calls for an inquiry into allegations of 'bribing, bullying and bugging' regarding residential planning applications....

Date Online: 01/08/2007

Letter from Parliament

During each parliamentary session the opposition parties are allocated a number of days when we can decide the subject for...

Date Online: 20/06/2007