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An important amendment in a controversial Parliamentary Bill was reheard in the House of Commons yesterday (Tuesday 24 April). Local concern had been expressed about a move in...
Date Published 25/04/2012
Relatives of asbestos victims won a landmark victory in the Supreme Court yesterday that could lead to £600million of insurance payouts. Thousands of new claims are now expected...
Date Published 29/03/2012
Tributes have been paid to John Murray, a man known for his tireless campaigning on ‘all things public transport.’ Mr Murray, 59, passed away on Wednesday (7 March) following...
Date Published 13/03/2012
Campaigners fighting for the future of the Turner Brothers Asbestos site in Spodden Valley believe they are one step closer to securing a safe future for the site.
Date Published 29/10/2011
An emergency meeting of the TBA Working party has been held to obtain facts about the Turner Brother’s site, following recent events, including the news that MMC is no longer...
Date Published 29/09/2011
Campaign groups have expressed their anger at being left out of a private meeting to discuss the future of the former Turner Brother’s site.
Date Published 13/09/2011
The former site of the world’s largest asbestos factory – Turner Brother’s in the Spodden Valley - has been put up for sale. The 72-acre site has been put on the market –...
Visitors judging Rochdale's Township in Bloom entry this Monday will learn of a new project that hopes to start a quiet revolution in promoting areas of community orchards, green...
Date Published 09/07/2011
A film that Save Spodden Valley campaign co-ordinator, Jason Addy, helped to produce for a group of national asbestos victim support charities has been added to the Health and...
Date Published 01/07/2011
Spodden Valley campaigners have welcomed key aspects of a government environmental White Paper just published. The Natural Choice is a 78 page report making a number of...
Date Published 08/06/2011
On the seventh anniversary of the formation of the Save Spodden Valley campaign, the future of the Turners Asbestos site still remains unresolved.
Date Published 19/05/2011
This week marks the seventh anniversary of the Save Spodden Valley (SSV) campaign. The campaign was formed as a result of the destruction of woodland around the former...
Date Published 18/05/2011
Campaigners have welcomed an important judgment made about exposure to asbestos announced by the Supreme Court.
Date Published 09/03/2011
The Chairman of the TBA Working Party, William Hobhouse, has asked the Council to change the housing allocation for the Turners site following the planning refusal.
Date Published 12/02/2011
Residents will get the opportunity to put together their own neighbourhood plan for the old TBA site under a Coalition Government Bill currently being discussed in Parliament.
Date Published 31/01/2011
Following the recent rejection by RMBC of the initial planning application, the owners of the Turner Brothers former asbestos factory site in Spodden Valley are to submit a fresh...
Date Published 17/01/2011
A planning application to develop the former Turner Brothers site has been rejected. Rochdale council announced today (Thursday 13 January 2011) that it has rejected an...
Date Published 13/01/2011
Spodden Valley campaigners will find out next week whether a building application for the controversial site has been rejected. A deadline set by Rochdale Council for MMC...
Date Published 07/01/2011
Widows and widowers of asbestos cancer victims protested outside the Canadian High Commission and Quebec Government offices on Thursday (9 December 2010). Concern has been...
Date Published 11/12/2010
Owners of the Spodden Valley site have less than 28 days to prove they have the resources to develop it or their planning application will be rejected. Rochdale Council wrote...
Date Published 03/12/2010
Mandale Park in Rochdale is one of many areas identified by AGMA (the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities) as a waste management site. The ten Greater Manchester...
Date Published 02/11/2010
There is a strong case for celebrating today, (Friday 22 October 2010) as a landmark date for Spotland. Historians suggest that this precise date 1000 years ago marked the...
Date Published 22/10/2010
Two ‘Save Spodden Valley’ campaigners are recovering after cycling from Manchester to Blackpool in support of Christies.
Date Published 06/07/2010
Asbestos victims and campaigners from Rochdale will be attending a raising awareness of mesothelioma event in Manchester this Friday (2 July 2010) The meeting has been...
Date Published 29/06/2010
The Save Spodden Valley (SSV) group celebrated their 6th anniversary earlier this month (June 2010), and campaigner Jason Addy says insists that they have no plans to stop. “We...
Date Published 08/06/2010
In 2004 woodland in the Spodden Valley was felled in an act that precipitated the Save Spodden Valley campaign. In the six years since that destructive act there has been much...
Date Published 28/05/2010
If the passing Ospreys sighted in Rochdale recently happened to be soaring across from the town hall clock spire above the Esplanade to Touchstones last Monday evening they would...
Date Published 22/04/2010
Councillor Elwyn Watkins has resigned from his position as councillor for Healey. Councillor Watkins is the Liberal Democrat candidate for Parliament in the Oldham East and...
Date Published 18/03/2010
Campaigners Dave Phillips, Laurie Kazan Allen and Jason Addy have met with Housing and Regeneration Minister John Healey in Westminster. The Housing & Regeneration minister was...
Date Published 12/03/2010
The Government has announced that it will not reverse the Law Lords decision which ended compensation for pleural plaques. Instead, the Government is willing to pay a £5,000...
Date Published 03/03/2010