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Campaigners calling for a 'green lung' link along the Spodden valley from Rochdale town centre to the South Pennine hills have welcomed a new study that confirms living close to...
Date Published 10/11/2008
Rochdale Council has spoken out about the current situation surrounding the development of Spodden Valley in response to a series of questions posed by Rochdale Online...
Date Published 24/10/2008
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) on the continuing use of asbestos overseas. The EDM raises awareness of the continued use of asbestos in the Third...
Date Published 16/10/2008
Mark Russell, Managing Director of MMC, the Heywood based developer that owns the Turners asbestos site, has told Rochdale Online the only way Spodden Valley can ever be rid of...
Date Published 15/10/2008
The bank which holds a mortgage charge on the Spodden Valley site has been nationalised. In a move described in the media as one that "fundamentally changes the nature of...
Date Published 13/10/2008
A new government scheme to pay a lump sum to all mesothelioma sufferers, irrespective of occupational exposure, came into effect yesterday (1 October). However, some asbestos...
Date Published 02/10/2008
The Communities Minister, Hazel Blears MP, has hailed the Save Spodden Valley (SSV) campaigners as ‘community heroes’ in a debate that celebrated the work being done by Britain’s...
Date Published 26/09/2008
T&N Known environmental asbestos hazard: 1957 Two documents from 1957, accompanied as images in this article, give an insight into the amount of dust emanated from the...
Date Published 11/09/2008
Following recent controversial claims by Cyril Smith about asbestos, health and Turner & Newall (T&N), Rochdale Online has been given first access to a series of documents that...
Sir Cyril Smith appeared on BBC TV news to defend himself against accusations that he lobbied for what was the world's largest asbestos factory, Rochdale's Turner & Newall, to...
Date Published 04/09/2008
Former Rochdale MP Sir Cyril Smith has reacted with anger after being accused of covering up asbestos problems in Rochdale in the early nineteen eighties. Sir Cyril was responding...
Date Published 01/09/2008
Jason Addy, of the Save Spodden Valley campaign, has spoken out following the revelations surrounding Sir Cyril's Smith's involvement with Turner Brother's Asbestos. Mr Addy says...
Rochdale Town Hall was packed for the launch of ‘Defending the Indefensible’; a book by Geoffrey Tweedale and Jock McCulloch about the history of asbestos, its role in the world...
Date Published 14/08/2008
Speaking at the launch of a new book "Defending the Indefensible", co-authored by Geoffrey Tweedale, Rochdale MP Paul Rowen said: "Geoff’s book and his research together with the...
Date Published 13/08/2008
Rochdale Town Hall will be the location for a book launch this evening (Tuesday 12 August). Geoffrey Tweedale, known by many for his previous book "Magic Mineral - Killer...
Date Published 12/08/2008
Members of the Save Spodden Valley group tucked in to a specially commissioned cake as they celebrated the group's fourth birthday. The sponge creation came complete with an...
Date Published 10/06/2008
The Save Spodden Valley campaign group has been given a huge boost as it reaches its fourth anniversary; as already noted in a report earlier this week citing Paul Rowen MP, the...
Date Published 16/05/2008
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen was pleased to attend a meeting of the Parliamentary Asbestos Group, in which the work of local campaign group Save Spodden Valley was singled out for...
Date Published 14/05/2008
Spodden Valley campaigners have welcomed the publication of a new government agency report on land remediation. It is entitled: 'Best Practice Note 27 – Contamination and...
Date Published 02/04/2008
Work is progressing with environmental improvements to the lower Spodden Valley. Council owned land has been cleared to allow for woodland planting and a new path. This is part of...
Date Published 18/03/2008
Japanese academics have visited Manchester to discuss the former Turner and Newall (T&N) site in the Spodden Valley. The Japanese government funded research is investigating...
Date Published 17/03/2008
Commenting on the announcement by Government Minister Hazel Blears that a new duty to cooperate will mean key government service providers will have a responsibility to work...
Date Published 05/03/2008
To co-incide with Action Mesothelioma Day the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a nationwide media campaign to raise awareness of continued exposure to asbestos -...
Date Published 26/02/2008
The ceremony to mark Action Mesothelioma Day will be held at the Asbestos Memorial in the memorial Gardens opposite the Town Hall. 12 noon, this Wednesday 27 February.A bench...
Date Published 25/02/2008
The last ten days continue to be extremely busy both in Westminster and in Rochdale. Following the floods in which areas in both Littleborough and Central Rochdale were affected...
Date Published 07/02/2008
An incident involving a Rochdale planning application was held up as the worst type of ‘spinning’ by an influential Common’s Committee. The committee in the House of Commons has...
Date Published 29/01/2008
Save Spodden Valley campaigners have welcomed the annoucenment by NICE that it has rejected an appeal against its decision to approve the use of Alimta for the treatment of...
Date Published 23/01/2008
Friends of the late Abdul Chowdry are to donate a tree and park bench for Rochdale Memorial Gardens, opposite the Town Hall.Mr Chowdry was killed in a road accident in July...
After outline planning permission was granted on the Dexine Mill site on Spotland Road earlier this week, the Save Spodden Valley group has greeted the news with a guarded...
Date Published 20/12/2007
An expert ‘time team’ has being formed to help Ding Quarry Campaigners.Academics from the Britain, Germany, Iceland and Scandinavia have been studying the Environmental...
Date Published 29/11/2007