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Ding Quarry campaigners have just received a tremendous boost in their legal challenge against DP Williams’ planning application.The Friends of the Earth rights and justice...
Date Published 28/11/2007
A huge operation to remove burned out cars from the River Spodden has been carried out.Ten car shells were removed from beneath the cliff next to Lenny barn and Falinge Park...
Date Published 23/11/2007
Spodden Valley campaigners say a planning approval for over 100 homes at the former Alexander Drew site at Mellor Street may be the ‘final straw’ that could scupper controversial...
Date Published 14/11/2007
Autumn sunshine greeted visitors to Rochdale’s beautiful Memorial Gardens to thank Rochdale Council’s Environmental Services Department and the British Trust for Conservation...
Date Published 11/11/2007
A packed public meeting with standing room only in the Horners Suite at Rochdale AFC saw speaker after speaker from the floor vent their anger and frustration over the application...
Date Published 07/11/2007
The media is at its best when it is in investigative mode – Would President Nixon ever have been impeached and Watergate uncovered had not the Washington Post published the story?...
The truism that “a picture can say a thousand words” may be seen in photographs just taken of the 'green corridor' of Spodden Valley to the South Pennine moorlands.To capture...
Date Published 06/11/2007
Rochdale’s Labour Parliamentary Candidate Simon Danczuk has added his support to the Say No to Ding Quarry campaign, but has called for a calm and measured approach instead of...
Date Published 31/10/2007
Save Spodden Valley (SSV) campaigners have offered their support to the Say NO to Ding Quarry campaign. SSV spokesman Jason Addy said: "The future of Ding Quarry is an important...
Date Published 29/10/2007
Following discussions with local people and local politicians from all parties, the Save Spodden Valley campaign is supporting Ding Quarry campaigners.As reported by Rochdale...
Date Published 25/10/2007
Thousands of British workers suffering from an asbestos-related condition will not be able to claim compensation, the Law Lords have ruled.The move only applies to sufferers...
Date Published 17/10/2007
Leigh Carlisle, a 27-year-old cancer sufferer who is pioneering new treatment for a deadly asbestos-related form of the illness, mesothelioma, is beginning to beat the...
Date Published 11/10/2007
At the recent TBA Working Party meeting Adrian Watson, Rochdale Council’s Chief Environmental Officer said that he was “extremely disappointed” with “a lack of progress” by MMC...
Date Published 04/10/2007
A 'Spodden Gorge' subcommittee of the Spotland Area Forum has been formed and has proposed a community-led project to create a safe 'Green Corridor' linking the communities of...
Date Published 25/09/2007
When I visit schools, colleges or various groups, I’m often asked what it is like to be MP for Rochdale and how it is different from being Leader of the Council. The first thing I...
Date Published 12/09/2007
An asbestos victim support group is helping to mark an important landmark in the history of health and safety.It is 25 years since Yorkshire TV broadcast its groundbreaking...
Date Published 08/08/2007
Rochdale asbestos campaigners are backing calls for an inquiry into allegations of 'bribing, bullying and bugging' regarding residential planning applications. The claims have...
Date Published 01/08/2007
Rochdale Councillors have paid tributes to the life of Abdul Chowdry, which was lost in a road traffic accident in Pakistan this week. A minutes silence was held at a full Council...
Date Published 27/07/2007
Former councillor Abdul Chowdry has died tragically in a road traffic accident in Pakistan.Mr Chowdry was on his way to catch a flight home when the car he was travelling in...
Date Published 25/07/2007
Three of the borough's parks and open spaces have been awarded Green Flag status after impressing judges.Green Flags now fly above the Memorial Gardens in Rochdale Town Centre...
Date Published 17/07/2007
During each parliamentary session the opposition parties are allocated a number of days when we can decide the subject for debate. Last Monday was such a day, when the topic of...
Date Published 20/06/2007
BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme reported on the latest Spodden Valley news that Countryside Properties PLC has pulled out of the controversial Spodden Valley planning...
Date Published 14/06/2007
Save Spodden Valley campaigner Jason Addy has responded to what he calls "personal allegations" about him contained in a press release issued by owners of the former Turner...
Date Published 12/06/2007
At the Spotland area forum, on Thursday evening (8 June), Rochdale Council’s Head of Planning and Regeneration, Ken Smith, shocked those present with news that Countryside...
Date Published 08/06/2007
The Owners of the land of the former TBA site in Spodden Valley, MMC Developments Ltd and Rathbone Jersey Ltd, are to be prosecuted by Rochdale Council for the alleged breach of...
Date Published 06/06/2007
Rochdale Council have confirmed that property development company Countryside Properties were forced to pay fixed penalty fines of £75 for each of three flyposting offences that...
The new Save Spodden Valley campaign logo has been launched at Westminster at a meeting of Parliamentarians, national and international campaigners.The logo sees the Spodden...
Date Published 22/05/2007
Riders from all over Greater Manchester and beyond will be tackled Blackstone Edge - the road over the Pennines - on the annual British Heart Foundation "Over the Edge" charity...
Date Published 14/05/2007
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen has spoken of his frustration that a report that gives guidance on testing for asbestos has been postponed until the end of this year.other improvements to...
Date Published 09/05/2007
A tree was planted beside the International Asbestos Memorial opposite Rochdale Town Hall to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day, Friday 27 April, to remember asbestos...
Date Published 27/04/2007