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The preacher at the morning service at 10.30am Sunday 21 February will be Rev Philip Baukham. The speaker at the Wives & Friends meeting at 7.30pm on Tuesday 23 February will...
Date Published 15/02/2010
Paul Rowen MP, Liberal Democrat Health and Safety spokesman, this week questioned the Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw on the issue of reinstating compensation for...
Date Published 11/02/2010
The Council has decided to delete reference to the Turner Brothers Asbestos (TBA) site in its Core Strategy. The government’s Planning Inspectorate has told the Council that the...
Date Published 29/01/2010
This week is the FIFTH birthday of the controversial planning application for hundreds of homes and a children's nursery on the former site of Turner Brother Asbestos - the...
Date Published 24/12/2009
Rochdale Online has gained access to public documents that raise the stakes in the Spodden Valley asbestos planning application saga. Campaigners suggest that Rochdale Borough...
Date Published 11/12/2009
Members of the Spotland Area Forum and Save Spodden Valley planted woodland bulbs trees and a hedgerow on Saturday (5 December). The planting took place at the start of the...
Date Published 07/12/2009
At a meeting of the TBA Working Party this week, a frank admission was made by MMC Estates that “due to the current economic climate” the company was unable to fund any site...
Date Published 27/11/2009
A £1.2 million campaign is aiming to protect tradesmen from across Greater Manchester from the UK’s biggest industrial killer. Figures show there were 917 male deaths from the...
Date Published 04/11/2009
Save Spodden Valley campaigners have discovered an 82 year old document advertising Rochdale. The advertisement, found in the Local Studies Archive at Touchstones, was...
Date Published 08/10/2009
Speaking to Rochdale Online, campaigners and experts say a landmark High Court decision could have “important parallels” for the future of the former asbestos factory site in...
Date Published 30/07/2009
The Government was last night accused of being “morally bankrupt” after it dealt a blow to hundreds of pleural plaques sufferers in Rochdale and failed to announce whether victims...
Date Published 22/07/2009
The mistakes made at Turners Asbestos factory in Rochdale, once the world's largest asbestos factory, are being repeated today at factories in India and Pakistan - that was the...
Date Published 30/05/2009
Asbestos experts are hosting a public meeting tonight at the Town Hall. Save Spodden Valley campaigner Jason Addy will meet with Dr Greg Deleuil, of Western Australia, and...
Date Published 26/05/2009
Anti-asbestos campaigners are to embark on a gruelling 1200 mile bike journey to raise awareness about mesotheliomia. Jason Addy, of Save Spodden Valley, will join two local...
Date Published 24/05/2009
Rochdale's Save Spodden Valley campaigners marked the fifth anniversary of their campaign at an All Party Parliamentary Asbestos Subcomittee meeting in Westminster yesterday...
Date Published 14/05/2009
The Prime Minister revealed how he has lost personal friends to asbestos related diseases, in a poignant meeting with a Save Spodden Valley campaigner. Jason Addy sat down...
Date Published 08/05/2009
The Prime Minister has agreed to meet with Rochdale MP Paul Rowen, to discuss the dangers of asbestos in schools. Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Gordon Brown said he...
Date Published 23/04/2009
Countryfile on Sunday (15 March) featured the struggle to stop Ding quarry reopening. The programme looked at the issue of dormant quarries nationally, using Ding quarry as an...
Date Published 17/03/2009
The Daily Mirror has a two page article on the Turner & Newall abestos factory in Spodden Valley with the headline: "How Turner & Newall condemned its workers to an agonising...
Date Published 14/03/2009
A letter from an asbestos campaigner has been released to Rochdale Online describing some of the working conditions at the Turner & Newall factory in Spodden Valley during the...
Date Published 02/03/2009
A tenacious campaigner for the victims of asbestos diseases who was a pioneer in revealing the cover-up of asbestos cancer by Turner & Newall, has died aged 89. As a Churchill...
Date Published 24/02/2009
Paul Rowen MP got a shock when he appeared on the Politics Show yesterday, when a technical slip-up broadcasted him to the nation as Labour MP. The Liberal Democrat politician...
Date Published 23/02/2009
Spodden Valley, the site of what was once the world's largest asbestos factory, will feature on the BBC Politics Show this Sunday. The Turner Brothers site will form the centre...
Date Published 20/02/2009
Information released to Paul Rowen MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions, under the Freedom of Information Act has revealed a worrying shortage of staff...
Date Published 16/01/2009
Almost nine out of 10 school buildings in Rochdale contain asbestos. Freedom of information figures show that 68 of Rochdale's 78 schools contain the deadly fibre. Other...
Date Published 14/01/2009
Sufferers of mesothelioma, the asbestos related cancer, have been given new hope through the development of a groundbreaking treatment in Germany. Rochdale has one of the...
Date Published 08/01/2009
Plans to transform the riverside on Spotland Road have been re-submitted almost a year after provisional planning permission was granted on the Dexine factory site. The...
Date Published 10/12/2008
Spodden Valley campaigners have their fingers crossed as Government bodies discuss the possibility of a National Centre for Asbestos Related Diseases. A meeting in Westminster...
Date Published 04/12/2008
Asbestos Victims Support Groups welcome the judgment announced which confirms that insurers who were “on” risk at the time someone was exposed to asbestos are liable to pay...
Date Published 23/11/2008
Plans for a 200 home development in Norden are in the balance after the company behind the proposal announced 80 job losses this week. Countryside Properties had received...
Date Published 19/11/2008