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A tribunal has found that the decision of the the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) to back the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in its decision not to disclose information...
Date Published 08/06/2014
Greater Manchester Police say there are now 21 suspects, including former Rochdale MP Cyril Smith, in the investigation into alleged abuse at Knowl View School. The suspects...
Date Published 15/05/2014
The joint Rochdale Council and Greater Manchester Police enquiry into the claims of a cover up over Cyril Smith's links with the former Knowl View children’s home has my full...
Date Published 13/05/2014
Rochdale MP, Simon Danczuk, is to be called before the Home Affairs Select Committee to give evidence on child sexual exploitation in Rochdale and he will be asked specifically...
Date Published 05/05/2014
Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable, Sir Peter Fahy, has announced that the scope of the ongoing investigation by GMP into alleged abuse at Knowl View School will be widened...
Date Published 28/04/2014
At a press conference to be held this morning (Monday 28 April) at Rochdale Town Hall, representatives from the local and national media are expected to be told that as well as...
Cyril Smith's family has said it would welcome an independent inquiry into allegations the former Liberal Democrat MP sexually abused boys. Police are investigating claims that...
Date Published 26/04/2014
In preparation for this review, I re-read ‘Big Cyril’ by Cyril Smith published in 1977 by Wyndam (second-hand copies still available from the usual online sources from £2.00)....
Date Published 24/04/2014
The preacher at our Sunday morning service at 10.30am will be Mr Cyril Whittle. There will also be Sunday Club activities for children aged 5-15.
Date Published 22/04/2014
The local launch of ‘Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith’, the long-awaited book on the late Cyril Smith by MP Simon Danczuk and his Parliamentary Secretary, Matt...
Date Published 17/04/2014
The family of the late Cyril Smith have said they are "saddened" by claims made against him in a new book written by Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk, reports the BBC. Mr Danczuk...
Date Published 13/04/2014
Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk held a dinner to help support the Mayor’s charity appeal this evening (Friday 11 April). The event, which was attended by local councillors and...
Date Published 11/04/2014
I want to start this week’s letter by offering my deep condolences to relatives and friends of the three Hain family members who were tragically killed in a car accident while...
Date Published 10/04/2014
Boxes of archived documents have turned up that could provide crucial clues about child sex abuse linked to former Liberal MP Sir Cyril Smith. According to Exaro, the...
Date Published 07/04/2014
Andrew Warnock QC will be conducting his review into the decision making process surrounding Knowl View School hopefully concluding in May 2014. The QC has been instructed by...
Date Published 02/04/2014
Serving the parish of Wardle and Smallbridge and the Methodist Circuit of Rochdale and Littleborough, we welcome to our Morning Service on Sunday, Mr. Cyril Whittle at 11.00am...
Smile For The Camera - The double life of Cyril Smith, is a book written by Matthew Baker and Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk exposing the double life of Cyril Smith, his abuse of power...
Date Published 01/04/2014
Rochdale Borough Council has instructed a QC to review allegations about abuse said to have occured at Knowl View School, Rochdale, which closed in 1995. Andrew Warnock QC...
Date Published 20/01/2014
2013 proved to be another difficult year for the borough of Rochdale. In fact, some may say that 2013 was Rochdale's 'annus horribilis' but was it really? Of course some...
Date Published 01/01/2014
The Christmas season is almost with us and on Saturday 14 December we will be singing carols in Wardle Library from 10.30am. Everyone is welcome to come and sing and join in with...
Date Published 11/12/2013
Simon Danczuk MP has backed a call by the former director of prosecutions, Keir Starmer, for a change in the law to make it a crime not to report child abuse. Simon Danczuk...
Date Published 05/11/2013
In 1951 a young, aspiring politician named Cyril Smith complained about the rates of pay of council officials and criticised plans to increase officers pay from £20 a week to £22....
Date Published 24/10/2013
Last week a light was shone on the sordid life of the late former Rochdale MP Cyril Smith in a Channel 4 Dispatches programme that detailed Smith's abuse of young boys over many...
Date Published 17/09/2013
Cyril Smith did visit a guest house linked to a child sex investigation, the Metropolitan Police has said. Scotland Yard's Operation Fernbridge is investigating allegations of...
Date Published 14/09/2013
Dispatches, Channel 4's award-winning investigative current affairs programme, is to broadcast a programme entitled 'The Paedophile MP: How Cyril Smith Got Away With It' next...
Date Published 06/09/2013
This Sunday we welcome Mr Cyril Whittle to our Methodist Morning Service at 10.45am with Sunday Club upstairs at the same time. Throughout the summer our Baby and Toddler...
Date Published 17/07/2013
Since 1856 Rochdale has had a Mayor with the first being Jacob Bright. Born in Green Bank near Rochdale, Bright was the first mayor elected on the town’s incorporation as a...
Date Published 21/05/2013
Ten people are being investigated over historical allegations of sexual abuse at a residential school, where it was claimed Cyril Smith abused boys. Greater Manchester Police...
Following a news report that claimed Greater Manchester Police have have dropped their investigation into sexual abuse of boys by Cyril Smith, Detective Chief Superintendent Mary...
Date Published 13/05/2013
The world of football prepared to bid farewell to one of its greatest managers this week, as Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement. Just about every superlative has already...
Date Published 10/05/2013