IN March 2015 a committee of the House of Commons produced a document summarising our national constitution and some options for reform. A...

THERE are good reasons why it is a rule that all Councillors should file with the local body upon which they serve a list of their benefici...

The Guilty Men: Allen Brett (Council Leader) & Steve Rumbelow (Chief Executive) IN AN E-MAIL, which we felt was too long to publish i...

IN a recent piece I quoted the response of Councillor John Hartley to someone who contacted him highlighting the fact that Rochdale’s Chief...

'TWO-JOBS RUMBELOW' - A GIANT AMONG PYGMIES or is he MILKING the MASSES in the Land of Gracie Fields? SOMETIME in the future, th...

WHILST it's important that everyone in Rochdale hold their respective ward councillors to account for their WHOLESALE lack of oversigh...

IT’s no secret that since the Tories came into power in 2010 local authorities have been starved of money. My local authority, Rochdale Me...

Editorial Note:  IN May 2017, Northern Voice produced the piece of investigative journalism below in which we tried to shed light on the ...

 Editorial note:  The e-mail below was sent to Steve Rumbelow. Rochdale Chief Executive, when Mick Coats failed to get a satisfactory ...

A Correction! by Les May IN my article ‘A Breach of Trust!’ I said that the silence of the Rochdale Conservative opposition w...

by Brian Bamford WHEN earlier this month Rochdale's Labour Councillor Faisal Rana confessed to voting a couple of times during the lo...

Editor Northern Voices:  ON Monday the 19 March 2018 the   Rochdale Online website reported that in Rochdale the  Councillor's a...

LAST week , Steve Rumbelow the Chief Executive of Rochdale Council apologised for 'the events that took place at Cambridge House and Kn...

Is Blas é Behaviour an occupational disease in local politics? LAST Tuesday, Carl Faulkner a candidate in the 2016 local e...