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19 Article(s) Found

Falinge: Lights, camera... obfuscation

I suppose by Hollywood standards, £54,000 is not much to spend on a film. I mean, it cost $200 million...

Date Online: 08/02/2012

Is Rochdale troubled by its teens?

On Rochdale Online’s news pages I was interested in three separate and seemingly unrelated stories relating to young people. Firstly,...

Date Online: 16/01/2012

2012: Year of the Disabled?

Twenty one years ago this week, the United Nations declared 1981 as the Year of the Disabled Person. We were...

Date Online: 05/01/2012

Living with dignity: the great pension debate

And so, next Wednesday, we are to be treated to a one-day strike of public sector workers which, depending on...

Date Online: 24/11/2011

Remembrance Day 2011

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Martin Luther...

Date Online: 14/11/2011

Leadership change: Spring clean or total makeover

Well, I don't know Wera personally but I wish her well in her new role and hope that she possesses...

Date Online: 12/05/2011

Infirmary ‘Players’: Tragedy or Farce?

“Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.” John Mortimer Congratulations to the Rochdale Infirmary Players who have just produced...

Date Online: 10/02/2011

The party’s over?

It’s been a strange couple of weeks for me. I’ve started to write my opinion piece three or four times...

Date Online: 10/12/2010

Rochdale left with the stick... again!

Well, at last what we have long predicted and feared will soon come to pass. Rochdale’s last hospital will soon...

Date Online: 09/11/2010

CSI Rochdale

“In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall....

Date Online: 18/10/2010

The government of national unity?

And so, George Osborne of all people has found an issue upon which to unite the country. There’s nothing that...

Date Online: 05/10/2010

Sir Cyril: Thanks for the Memories?

Great men should not have great faults Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld I was reading about the reaction of the late...

Date Online: 20/09/2010

Last Day of Summer

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the...

Date Online: 06/09/2010

A Tale of Two Cities

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was...

Date Online: 31/08/2010

Dream a little dream

Well, there I was in the town centre on Saturday together with Mrs Hardcastle and the two boys. The place...

Date Online: 15/08/2010

Keeping it local

Word reaches my rheumy old ears about the Town Centre Mis-management’s latest contribution to their ‘Shop Local’ initiative that they’ve...

Date Online: 08/08/2010

Our disappearing hospital

Like many, I turned out to hear Mrs Gloria Oates OBE DL attempt to reassure us at the public consultation...

Date Online: 08/07/2010

The Law Society

I read with a mixture of boredom and general disinterest, news reports of Councillor Greg Couzens exhorting us to sign...

Date Online: 05/07/2010

Panel of experts

Following England’s disastrous exit from the World Cup I was watching the BBC panel of Lineker, Hansen and Shearer dissect...

Date Online: 29/06/2010