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211 Article(s) Found
The Mesothelioma Bill in the Queen’s Speech 8 May 2013 provides for a payment to sufferers of the asbestos cancer,...
Date Online: 09/05/2013
New soil tests on the TBA site have confirmed asbestos contamination in most of the test holes recently dug.
Earlier this...
Date Online: 07/03/2013
Air monitoring tests conducted before the February 15 fire at the former Turner Brothers Asbestos (TBA) Rochdale asbestos site have...
Date Online: 01/03/2013
More than 50 firefighters have spent the night battling a difficult blaze at a former asbestos factory but now have...
Date Online: 15/02/2013
A scheme to compensate some victims of the asbestos cancer mesothelioma has been criticised by a national asbestos victims' charity....
Date Online: 21/08/2012
Following on from events reported on Rochdale Online, in a dramatic move. the Government today announced it was backing down...
Date Online: 26/04/2012
An important amendment in a controversial Parliamentary Bill was reheard in the House of Commons yesterday (Tuesday 24 April).
Local concern...
Date Online: 25/04/2012
Relatives of asbestos victims won a landmark victory in the Supreme Court yesterday that could lead to £600million of insurance...
Date Online: 29/03/2012
Campaigners fighting for the future of the Turner Brothers Asbestos site in Spodden Valley believe they are one step closer...
Date Online: 29/10/2011
An emergency meeting of the TBA Working party has been held to obtain facts about the Turner Brother’s site, following...
Date Online: 29/09/2011
Campaign groups have expressed their anger at being left out of a private meeting to discuss the future of the...
Date Online: 13/09/2011
The former site of the world’s largest asbestos factory – Turner Brother’s in the Spodden Valley - has been put...
Date Online: 13/09/2011
A support group, which helps sufferers of asbestos diseases in Greater Manchester, is backing a new initiative to provide free...
Date Online: 07/09/2011
A film that Save Spodden Valley campaign co-ordinator, Jason Addy, helped to produce for a group of national asbestos victim...
Date Online: 01/07/2011
Spodden Valley campaigners have welcomed key aspects of a government environmental White Paper just published.
The Natural Choice is a...
Date Online: 08/06/2011
On the seventh anniversary of the formation of the Save Spodden Valley campaign, the future of the Turners Asbestos site...
Date Online: 19/05/2011
This week marks the seventh anniversary of the Save Spodden Valley (SSV) campaign.
The campaign was formed as a result...
Date Online: 18/05/2011
Campaigners have welcomed an important judgment made about exposure to asbestos announced by the Supreme Court....
Date Online: 09/03/2011
The Chairman of the TBA Working Party, William Hobhouse, has asked the Council to change the housing allocation for the...
Date Online: 12/02/2011
Residents will get the opportunity to put together their own neighbourhood plan for the old TBA site under a Coalition...
Date Online: 31/01/2011
Following the recent rejection by RMBC of the initial planning application, the owners of the Turner Brothers former asbestos...
Date Online: 17/01/2011
A planning application to develop the former Turner Brothers site has been rejected.
Rochdale council announced today (Thursday 13 January...
Date Online: 13/01/2011
Spodden Valley campaigners will find out next week whether a building application for the controversial site has been rejected.
A...
Date Online: 07/01/2011
Widows and widowers of asbestos cancer victims protested outside the Canadian High Commission and Quebec Government offices on Thursday (9...
Date Online: 11/12/2010
There is a strong case for celebrating today, (Friday 22 October 2010) as a landmark date for Spotland.
Historians suggest...
Date Online: 22/10/2010
Asbestos victims and campaigners from Rochdale will be attending a raising awareness of mesothelioma event in Manchester this Friday (2...
Date Online: 29/06/2010
The Save Spodden Valley (SSV) group celebrated their 6th anniversary earlier this month (June 2010), and campaigner Jason Addy says...
Date Online: 08/06/2010
In 2004 woodland in the Spodden Valley was felled in an act that precipitated the Save Spodden Valley campaign. In...
Date Online: 28/05/2010
Campaigners Dave Phillips, Laurie Kazan Allen and Jason Addy have met with Housing and Regeneration Minister John Healey in Westminster.
The...
Date Online: 12/03/2010
The Government has announced that it will not reverse the Law Lords decision which ended compensation for pleural plaques.
Instead,...
Date Online: 03/03/2010
