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Bosses at the Turner & Newall asbestos factory in Spodden Valley, Rochdale, spied on journalists and environmental campaigners who exposed the killer dust’s dangers and launched a...
Date Published 07/01/2016
For over 12 years, the Save Spodden Valley campaign (SSV) has been working to secure a safe future for the former Turner Brothers Asbestos (TBA) site,once the site of the world's...
Date Published 01/01/2016
Expert asbestos-related disease lawyers at Irwin Mitchell have called for significant improvements in the way asbestos is monitored, managed and handled after new statistics...
Date Published 27/10/2015
A new law to remove asbestos from workplaces, public buildings and homes in Britain has been proposed. The proposals, contained in a new report, 'The asbestos crisis – Why Britain...
Date Published 16/10/2015
An email exchange could cast doubt on the nature of Rochdale Council's “reassurance” testing of air around the former Turner Brothers Asbestos site in the Spodden Valley.
Date Published 28/09/2015
Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk has secured a meeting with a government minister to discuss the toxic legacy of the former Turner Brothers Asbestos works.
Date Published 18/09/2015
Rochdale Council has agreed to undertake air quality monitoring at the former TBA Site. Councillors on the Rochdale Township Committee agreed to proposals yesterday (Wednesday...
Date Published 17/09/2015
Rochdale Township is to vote tonight (Wednesday 16/9/15) on plans to conduct air monitoring around the perimeter of the site of the former Turner Brothers Asbestos site. Andy...
Date Published 16/09/2015
Ideas are being sought for the preservation of historic fencing due to be replaced with new security fencing around Meanwood Primary School playing field. Local resident Brian...
Date Published 05/12/2014
A dog and its owner were subjected to a vicious attack by a “staffy type” dog on Monday (24 November) afternoon on Lenny Barn near Falinge Park High School and the Spodden...
Date Published 28/11/2014
Former Rochdale MP Cyril Smith was involved in an attempted smear campaign against journalists who made a documentary regarding asbestos. Documents discovered by Spodden...
Date Published 22/07/2014
Local MPs Simon Danczuk and Jim Dobbin will be amongst MPs speaking at an Action Mesothelioma Day event on Friday 4 July. Doves will be released in Albert Square, Manchester,...
Date Published 25/06/2014
Jason Addy of the Save Spodden Valley Campaign, who has campaigned for years about the dangers posed by the former Turner Borthers Asbestos site comments on the publication of...
Date Published 04/04/2014
In the aftermath of the second TBA site fire in a year, a government agency relied upon by Rochdale Council and Greater Manchester Fire Service is not up to the job of protecting...
Date Published 20/03/2014
A new international science publication called Mosaic has just published an in depth investigation into asbestos. It features many of the issues published by Rochdale Online in...
Date Published 19/03/2014
The fire at the former Turner Brothers Asbestos site has brought concerns regarding site security, and the potential for serious risk to health, to the fore once more. Jason...
Date Published 01/02/2014
Members of the Save Spodden Valley group have criticised the Asbestos and Mesothelioma Bill, which has again been debated in the House of Commons. The bill, which will now go...
Date Published 13/01/2014
With the news that part of the Turner Brothers Asbestos (TBA) site is to be demolished, Save Spodden Valley (SSV) has given a guarded welcome to a "careful demolition of part of...
Date Published 16/08/2013
The digital artwork by Colombian artist Guillermo Villamizar called ‘the female face of Britain’s asbestos catastrophe’, recently unveiled in Westminster that addresses Rochdale’s...
Date Published 03/08/2013
Rochdale’s asbestos legacy portrayed by international artist unveiled in Westminster.
Date Published 02/08/2013
There has been an increase in deaths due to cancer caused by asbestos in Greater Manchester. Mesothelioma, which is a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos is a fatal cancer of...
Date Published 01/07/2013
The Mesothelioma Bill in the Queen’s Speech 8 May 2013 provides for a payment to sufferers of the asbestos cancer, mesothelioma, from an insurer-funded scheme in cases where...
Date Published 09/05/2013
New soil tests on the TBA site have confirmed asbestos contamination in most of the test holes recently dug. Earlier this year United Utilities did asbestos air testing and...
Date Published 07/03/2013
Air monitoring tests conducted before the February 15 fire at the former Turner Brothers Asbestos (TBA) Rochdale asbestos site have recorded elevated levels of asbestos fibres in...
Date Published 01/03/2013
Action has been promised by the Government regarding the former TBA site fire and its aftermath. Speaking in Parliament yeaterday, Rochdale's MP Simon Danczuk asked the...
Rochdale Council leader, Councillor Colin Lambert has been taken to task over reassuring residents that the smoke from the fire at Friday’s asbestos factory fire in Rochdale...
Date Published 19/02/2013
More than 50 firefighters have spent the night battling a difficult blaze at a former asbestos factory but now have it under control. Local road closures remain in place and...
Date Published 15/02/2013
A scheme to compensate some victims of the asbestos cancer mesothelioma has been criticised by a national asbestos victims' charity.
Date Published 21/08/2012
My question at Prime Minister's Questions to David Cameron on asbestos about to be exported from Canada to India also has strong connections with Rochdale.
Date Published 24/07/2012
Following on from events reported on Rochdale Online, in a dramatic move. the Government today announced it was backing down on the withdrawal of existing legal services funding...
Date Published 26/04/2012