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This week has seen Parliament voting on the budget and we also had the first pre-election debate by the three would be chancellors. By common consent, Vince Cable came out on...
Date Published 31/03/2010
The preacher at the morning service at 10.30am on Sunday 21 March will be Mr Cyril Whittle. There will also be special Kidzone activities for children aged 5-12 with games, DVD,...
Date Published 16/03/2010
People joined together today to celebrate the 25th birthday of the Sparth Community Centre on Norman Road. Sparth Community Centre is a small, multi-cultural centre offering a...
Date Published 13/03/2010
Rochdale Liberal Democrats have commissioned a local artist to create a painting celebrating 175 years of the Liberal movement in the town. Walter Kershaw, a mural artist from...
Date Published 13/01/2010
Ludovic Kennedy, the man who stood for the Liberals in Rochdale in the 1958 by-election, the first British by-election to be televised, has died aged 89. Sir Ludovic was more...
Date Published 20/10/2009
The news that must have had a worrying effect on all of us this week is the story of two young boys being abused and tortured by two equally young boys. How can this happen and...
Date Published 08/09/2009
Sir Cyril Smith, the former Rochdale MP, is recovering at Rochdale Infirmary after a recent fall. Sir Cyril attended the Infirmary 10 days ago after being found collapsed in...
Date Published 20/08/2009
Last year the National Health Service celebrated sixty years since its creation. The brainchild of William Beveridge, Liberal MP for Berwick upon Tweed and introduced by fiery...
Date Published 19/08/2009
A life member of Rochdale's amateur football league and former president of the midweek cricket league has died. Cyril Fletcher passed away last weekend and his death will be a...
Date Published 14/08/2009
Though Parliament is not sitting, my office and I continue to work and deal with issues and constituents. My office is open from 9.00am until 5.00pm. Though I am taking a few...
Date Published 03/08/2009
This week the House of Commons has elected a new Speaker to succeed Michael Martin. Michael Martin was in my view much maligned by the media and the Westminster set. We should...
Date Published 24/06/2009
Over thirty five years ago, one of my predecessors, Cyril Smith, famously described Westminster as the “…longest running farce in the West End”. Tragically, in my view,...
Date Published 26/05/2009
In a bid to prove that he is not on the Westminster gravy train, Rochdale MP Paul Rowen has revealed full details of his expense claims to Rochdale Online. Rochdale Online...
Date Published 22/05/2009
Easter is a busy time though Parliament is in recess. During the first weekend at home I attended the Heartbeat Ball at the Town Hall.
Date Published 15/04/2009
A number of Rochdale residents have received letters telling them that they have won a significant amount of money. The letters ask for personal details including banks...
Date Published 16/02/2009
A couple of weeks ago I went to the open day organised by Care UK of the mobile CATS (Clinical Assessment and Treatment Services) units at the top of Yorkshire Street. These are...
Date Published 04/02/2009
A Local Liberal politician, who was awarded the MBE for services to Rochdale, has died following a long illness. Walter Ridgeway, 89, was a long-serving councillor in the...
Date Published 18/01/2009
Dr Jack Taylor, who worked at both Rochdale Infirmary and Birch Hill Hospitals during a medical career which spanned more than 50 years, died before Christmas at the age of 97....
Date Published 06/01/2009
One of the faces of the 'Yes' campaign visited Rochdale this week to promote a 'yes' vote in the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport referendum, while the local Conservatives...
Date Published 02/12/2008
The Jarrow MP, Stephen Hepburn, has tabled a House of Commons motion calling for Rochdale’s former MP Sir Cyril Smith to be stripped of his knighthood. The Chairman of the All...
Date Published 13/11/2008
Sir Peter Ogden of the Ogden Trust today (Tuesday 11 November) officially handed over a portrait of Sir Cyril Smith by artist Paul Temple. The event, at the National Liberal...
Date Published 11/11/2008
Sir Cyril Smith has come under more pressure to apologise for claiming that “there is no danger to the public at large from asbestos”, as the Member of Parliament for Manchester...
Date Published 10/11/2008
Picking up on documents first brought into the public domain by Rochdale Online, The Daily Mirror newspaper has called for Sir Cyril Smith to be stripped of his knighthood after...
Date Published 05/11/2008
The news this week has continued to be dominated by the world banking crisis. David Cameron’s offer to PM Gordon Brown was sensible and shows that we do politics different here in...
Date Published 01/10/2008
Rochdale /health campaigner, Councillor Jean Ashworth, has slammed Gordon Brown’s decision to allow free prescriptions for cancer patients in England but not all patients...
Date Published 24/09/2008
Local Labour politicians have expressed shock and disbelief at the latest allegations to emerge about Sir Cyril Smith’s relationship with asbestos giant T&N after correspondence...
Date Published 23/09/2008
Rochdale Online again has first access to original archived documents. These newly revealed documents from asbestos company archives, once believed to be destroyed, shed new light...
Date Published 17/09/2008
Recent revelations surrounding the asbestos cover-up at Rochdale's T&N factory and Sir Cyril Smith's interaction with the company have been featured in satirical magazine Private...
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...
Date Published 11/09/2008
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