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211 Article(s) Found
Paul Rowen MP addresses the issue of Asbestos and Spodden...
Date Online: 09/09/2005
Save Spodden Valley campaigners have been invited to speak this month at an asbestos conference in the European Parliament buildings....
Date Online: 08/09/2005
Asbestos cancer: Are children up to 1000 times more at risk with HSE’s "acceptable" exposure levels? Campaigners say an article...
Date Online: 07/09/2005
Jayne Barrett of BBC North West Tonight reports that residents in Rochdale are today calling on the office of Deputy...
Date Online: 13/08/2005
In an unannounced move, landowners have re-blocked the Healey Dell entrance to Woodlands Rd to horse riders and disabled people,...
Date Online: 02/08/2005
Rochdale Online accompanied Rochdale’s MP, Paul Rowen, as he took a bird’s eye view of his constituency courtesy of...
Date Online: 28/06/2005
Government tests prove factory rubble contains deadly asbestos traces, an urgent debate has been called in Parliament.
Latest news from the...
Date Online: 28/06/2005
Landowners responsible for the emergency closure of Woodlands Road may be forced to take a step back, as Rochdale Township...
Date Online: 09/06/2005
A meeting with Rochdale Township Councillors, followed by a public meeting at Shawclough Primary School was held by Save Spodden...
Date Online: 26/05/2005
The whole of Woodland Road has been closed off today after reports that local people have been disturbing soil on...
Date Online: 16/05/2005
Save Spodden Valley have received information that a letter (dated 10th September 2004) was sent to the owners of the...
Date Online: 05/05/2005
At least 5000 people in the UK and 100,000 people worldwide die each year of asbestos related disease, and Rochdale...
Date Online: 29/04/2005
A candlelit vigil is to be held outside Rochdale Town Hall on Thursday 28th April from 8.00pm. Organised by Greater...
Date Online: 25/04/2005
Official concern has been raised about large piles of crushed rubble on the site of the former Turner Brothers asbestos...
Date Online: 21/04/2005
Save Spodden Valley Campaigners saw an opportunity and took it this week, when John Prescott MP visited Rochdale to publicise...
Date Online: 15/04/2005
Countryside Properties has confirmed that they are NOT to build on one of the woodlands destroyed in May 2004 on...
Date Online: 22/03/2005
The fight to stop exposed asbestos fibres in the woodland of Spodden Valley is growing ever more intense, as the...
Date Online: 17/03/2005
A gesture of goodwill to Rochdale's youngest citizens – local children and parents are calling on Countryside Properties to repair...
Date Online: 07/03/2005
Save Spodden Valley campaigners took to the air last week to give Rochdale Online readers a birds-eye view of the...
Date Online: 02/03/2005
Local people are still waiting for answers from Countryside Properties PLC about the confirmation of exposed asbestos fibres in woodland...
Date Online: 28/02/2005
Over 120 people braved a windy Saturday night to attend a fundraising evening for Save Spodden Valley. Guests from as...
Date Online: 15/02/2005
Controversial plans to build upon the worlds largest asbestos site finally came to a head in Rochdale, as dozens of...
Date Online: 08/02/2005
Local Parents concerned about recent events in the Spodden Valley have organised a protest. Dozens of children will be leading...
Date Online: 07/02/2005
In a desperate attempt to publicise that piles of asbestos fibres are still exposed, locals have donned protective suits and...
Date Online: 31/01/2005
A huge planning application has just been lodged at Rochdale Town Hall concerning a controversial site in the Spodden...
Date Online: 16/12/2004
Independent laboratory results have confirmed Spodden Valley's fears about the state of land surrounding the former Turner Brothers Asbestos ...
Date Online: 18/11/2004
Rochdale’s former asbestos factory site has been designated a planning “Area of Opportunity” in the town’s blueprint Unitary Development Plan....
Date Online: 03/11/2004
Save Spodden Valley campaigners welcome Rochdale Council’s decision to protect woodland around the former Turner Brothers Asbestos factory site. A...
Date Online: 29/10/2004
The Save Spodden Valley Group is meeting at Spotland Methodist Church on Monday 13 September to discuss the latest news...
Date Online: 08/09/2004
New fears have been raised about recent activity at the former Turner & Newall (T&N) asbestos factory site in Rochdale....
Date Online: 25/08/2004
