by Brian Bamford Political activist & teacher first elected as a Labour councillor in Rochdale in 1964 WHEN I first met Eileen Kers...

'EL GORDO' - Richard Farnell - Suspended by Labour COUNCILOR Richard Farnell, a former leader of Rochdale MBC, has quit the L...

by Les May UNLIKE many Labour supporters in Rochdale, I found it difficult to get too excited about whether Richard Farnel l did ...

THE police investigation into allegations that the former Rochdale council leader Richard Farnell committed perjury when he appeared at th...

by Brian Bamford LORD Steel, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, has today been suspended by the party owing to his admission mad...

ON Tuesday the 12th, March, the mother of a lad who was resident at Knowl View School, commented on a post entitled 'Midsummer Murder...

by Les May THE TV land of Midsummer is a fictional place of pretty villages and dark deeds. People who always like to grab the ...

How much freedom of speech do we really have? John Wilkins THIS article summarises the problems a local campaigning group BOLD (Buildi...

by Les May THE decision to posthumously strip Cyril Smith of his ‘Freedom of the Borough’ is unlikely to change the impression that ...

Tini Owens and Cliff Richards By Les May That’s not the sort of juxtaposition of names you would expect. In case you don’t know who ...

DEAR LES (MAY), I defer to nobody in my admiration for your dogged and forensic analysis of Danczuk and his book. Were others more aware...

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