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As a community we are fighting to ensure the whole of Rochdale is kept safe. If we were mere 'NIMBY's' perhaps we should be expected to want the rubble to be removed as quickly as...
Date Published 22/11/2005
Hundreds of tonnes of asbestos factory rubble is to be disturbed, transported and dumped from next Tuesday 22 November.This news came by way of a press release issued by the...
Date Published 18/11/2005
The question was asked by Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin in response to concerns of the apparent lack of information relating to the unannounced plans to remove asbestos...
Date Published 16/11/2005
Save Spodden Valley has submitted an official complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority alleging seriously misleading information has been included in a glossy brochure...
Date Published 09/11/2005
Last week Save Spodden Valley received shocking news that some of the rubble on the TBA site was to be removed in less than a week's time.Despite reassurances by the...
Date Published 08/11/2005
Confusion was caused this week when TBA Working Party councillors were called to a meeting that could have resulted in campaign groups Save Spodden Valley (SSV) and Friends of...
Date Published 17/10/2005
Paul Rowen MP has joined with councillors from all parties to ask a question about the Turners site at this Wednesday’s full council meeting.The move was in response to the...
Date Published 10/10/2005
One of the North West’s Conservative MEPs, Den Dover joined Conservative Rochdale councillors to visit the Turners site last weekend. Save Spodden Valley campaigners showed the...
Date Published 27/09/2005
Save Spodden Valley campaigners Su Wilson, Nigel Morrell, Mick Coats and Jason Addy travelled to Brussels last week to attend an international asbestos conference.Whilst in...
North West MEP Den Dover was recently interviewed by Allan Beswick on the BBC GMR Breakfast Show. They spoke at length about many of the issues facing the controversial planning...
On the day that Save Spodden Valley campaigners travel to the European Parliament in Brussels to discuss asbestos concerns with MEPs and European Commissioners there has been a...
Date Published 21/09/2005
The leader of the British Liberal Democrats in Europe, Chris Davies MEP has visited Spodden Valley where there is currently a controversial planning application for over 600 homes...
Date Published 20/09/2005
Paul Rowen MP addresses the issue of Asbestos and Spodden Valley...
Date Published 09/09/2005
Save Spodden Valley campaigners have been invited to speak this month at an asbestos conference in the European Parliament buildings. Whilst in Brussels, campaigners are also...
Date Published 08/09/2005
Asbestos cancer: Are children up to 1000 times more at risk with HSE’s "acceptable" exposure levels? Campaigners say an article just published by a national expert on health and...
Date Published 07/09/2005
Jayne Barrett of BBC North West Tonight reports that residents in Rochdale are today calling on the office of Deputy Prime Minister to for a Public Inquiry because they suggest...
Date Published 13/08/2005
In an unannounced move, landowners have re-blocked the Healey Dell entrance to Woodlands Rd to horse riders and disabled people, and MMC site owner has claimed that it is to block...
Date Published 02/08/2005
Government tests prove factory rubble contains deadly asbestos traces, an urgent debate has been called in Parliament.Latest news from the troubled former asbestos factory...
Date Published 28/06/2005
Rochdale Online accompanied Rochdale’s MP, Paul Rowen, as he took a bird’s eye view of his constituency courtesy of Save Spodden Valley campaigners. The flight took in good views...
Landowners responsible for the emergency closure of Woodlands Road may be forced to take a step back, as Rochdale Township Councillors have voted unanimously for the road to be...
Date Published 09/06/2005
A meeting with Rochdale Township Councillors, followed by a public meeting at Shawclough Primary School was held by Save Spodden Valley campaigners this week, after news that...
Date Published 26/05/2005
The whole of Woodland Road has been closed off today after reports that local people have been disturbing soil on the site of the old asbestos factory which is potentially fatal...
Date Published 16/05/2005
Save Spodden Valley have received information that a letter (dated 10th September 2004) was sent to the owners of the TBA site confirming exposed asbestos in the Spodden Valley....
Date Published 05/05/2005
At least 5000 people in the UK and 100,000 people worldwide die each year of asbestos related disease, and Rochdale is no stranger to these deaths. Because of the number of...
Date Published 29/04/2005
A candlelit vigil is to be held outside Rochdale Town Hall on Thursday 28th April from 8.00pm. Organised by Greater Manchester Hazards Centre, this is to commemorate Workers'...
Date Published 25/04/2005
Official concern has been raised about large piles of crushed rubble on the site of the former Turner Brothers asbestos factory. The piles of rubble are believed to be the crushed...
Date Published 21/04/2005
Save Spodden Valley Campaigners saw an opportunity and took it this week, when John Prescott MP visited Rochdale to publicise the newly published Labour manifesto. Mr. Prescott...
Date Published 15/04/2005
Countryside Properties has confirmed that they are NOT to build on one of the woodlands destroyed in May 2004 on the former Turner Brothers Asbestos site.
Date Published 22/03/2005
The fight to stop exposed asbestos fibres in the woodland of Spodden Valley is growing ever more intense, as the public meeting in the Great Hall of Rochdale Town Hall on...
Date Published 17/03/2005
A gesture of goodwill to Rochdale's youngest citizens – local children and parents are calling on Countryside Properties to repair the damage to destroyed woodlands in the Spodden...
Date Published 07/03/2005