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169 Article(s) Found
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 truism that “a picture can say a thousand words” may be seen in photographs just taken of the 'green...
Date Online: 06/11/2007
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 (SSV) campaigners have offered their support to the Say NO to Ding Quarry campaign. SSV spokesman Jason...
Date Online: 29/10/2007
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
