by Les May A week ago in an article for Northern Voices, I wrote: ‘ OSTENSIBLY Simon Danczuk’s 2014 book ‘ Smile for the C...

AT LAST night' s full council meeting of Rochdale MBC held in the Gothic revival Town Hall, Tory Councillor Pat Sullivan tabled a questi...

by Les May RICHARD Farnell’s claim at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) that he knew nothing of the unsavoury goi...

WHEN in June 2014 Rochdale MBC had begun a council-commissioned inquiry is into whether there was a town hall cover-up relating to possib...

By Les May ‘EX-MP set up deal to keep sex abuse secret’ screams the half page headline on the front page of today’s Rochdale Observ...

THE 'calling out' of Simon Danczuk by Chief Inspector Ian Hanson with it's implication that it is time for him to 'put up...

Letter published in Rochdale Observer in March: Dear Editor,   News of the delay in the release of the local report into sex  abuse...

ABI Jackson is the Green Party candidate for Heywood and Middleton, and is a Middleton lass who went to the Catholic Cardinal Langley High ...

THE first POLL by The Sun in the Heywood & Middleton constiency of the former MP Jim Dobbin suggests that Labour will win, but that Uk...

BECAUSE of his period in office as leader of Rochdale Council up to 1992 Richard Farnell who took over against as Council leader last May h...

LABOUR leader Ed Miliband, the House of Commons' Speaker, John Bercow, the Deputy Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, John Prescott, shadow Health S...

WHEN soon after Jim Dobbin, MP for Heywood and Middleton, died in Poland the Labour Party made an early announcement of the date of the by-...

JIM Dobbin, Labour MP for Heywood and Middleton, died suddenly died in Slupsk whilst on a Parliamentary trip in Poland, aged 73.  Jim was f...

says Richard Farnell Cleavage Politics on Rochdale MBC RICHARD Farnell has shown a skill for stating the obvious when he claimed the o...

Northern Saying:  'There is only them as knows their own, Knows!' COUNCILLOR Farnell the new leader of Rochdale Council has a...

LESS than  a week ago the leadership of Rochdale MBC was taken over by Councillor Richard Farnell when he displaced Colin Lambert, the leade...

Challenge to Labour MPs who write for the right-wing press   IN last Saturday's Rochdale Observer Jim Dobbin, the Labour MP for C...

LABOUR MP Jim Dobbin has given his support to the joint enquiry of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and Rochdale Council into the claims of ...