by Les May ON the evening of the local elections a lady who had spent the afternoon watching the antics of two Tory ‘ num ber take...

Council Leader says he has 'confidence' in Aasim Rashid CASTLETON Councillor, Aasim Rashid, found himself under attack in the R...

DAVID Alan Snowden, 60, died on Tuesday the 27th, March, in his front room on Kingsland Road,  Castleton in Rochdale, Lancs.  Neighbours wh...

By Les May YOU may have noticed a bundle of documents dated 29 January 2018 fastened to a lamp post close to a patch of gree...

Hello Brian, I have looked at the Milkstone and Deeplish result from 2015 and to be honest I don't agree with you. There are plenty...

by Les May IN a recent article I made reference to the fall in the UK birth rate since 1960, and the impact this will have on my child...

OVER 20 local residents of Castleton turned up last night to hear that the former Castleton Library Carnegie  building may now face the pro...

THE Carnegie building in Castleton, Rochdale has now been bought by a local businessman.  The building is one of the most iconic buildings ...

IN the first two hours of polling this morning in the Heywood and Middleton by-election caused by the sudden death of Jim Dobbin last month...

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...

in bid to keep up 'Standards'  FATTY Farnell (still with his bad back but minus his hearing-aid) , who became the leader of   Ro...

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

CASTLETON has been allowed to fall into decline for years as various buildings have been neglected or abandoned.  The original old library ...

TODAY supporters of the old Carnegie Library building in Castleton, Rochdale, were at Tesco's in Sudden trying to rally support for the...