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206 Article(s) Found

Welcome victory in Parliament for asbestos cancer victims

Following on from events reported on Rochdale Online, in a dramatic move. the Government today announced it was backing down...

Date Online: 26/04/2012

Anger turns to hope in asbestos cancer victim amendment

An important amendment in a controversial Parliamentary Bill was reheard in the House of Commons yesterday (Tuesday 24 April). Local concern...

Date Online: 25/04/2012

Asbestos victims relatives win Supreme Court battle for compensation

Relatives of asbestos victims won a landmark victory in the Supreme Court yesterday that could lead to £600million of insurance...

Date Online: 29/03/2012

Campaigners ‘one step closer’ to securing safe future for TBA site

Campaigners fighting for the future of the Turner Brothers Asbestos site in Spodden Valley believe they are one step closer...

Date Online: 29/10/2011

Campaign group’s fight continues

An emergency meeting of the TBA Working party has been held to obtain facts about the Turner Brother’s site, following...

Date Online: 29/09/2011

Groups’ anger at ‘secret’ Turners meeting

Campaign groups have expressed their anger at being left out of a private meeting to discuss the future of the...

Date Online: 13/09/2011

Turner Brother’s site put up for sale

The former site of the world’s largest asbestos factory – Turner Brother’s in the Spodden Valley - has been put...

Date Online: 13/09/2011

Poignant pledge tackles asbestos deaths

A support group, which helps sufferers of asbestos diseases in Greater Manchester, is backing a new initiative to provide free...

Date Online: 07/09/2011

Asbestos cancer film goes 'viral' for Action Mesothelioma Day

A film that Save Spodden Valley campaign co-ordinator, Jason Addy, helped to produce for a group of national asbestos victim...

Date Online: 01/07/2011

A Spodden Valley ‘plan B’ could be the natural choice

Spodden Valley campaigners have welcomed key aspects of a government environmental White Paper just published. The Natural Choice is a...

Date Online: 08/06/2011

‘Disappointment’ as asbestos site's future remains unresolved

On the seventh anniversary of the formation of the Save Spodden Valley campaign, the future of the Turners Asbestos site...

Date Online: 19/05/2011

Seven years of the Save Spodden Valley campaign

This week marks the seventh anniversary of the Save Spodden Valley (SSV) campaign. The campaign was formed as a result...

Date Online: 18/05/2011

Campaigners welcome court judgement over asbestos exposure

Campaigners have welcomed an important judgment made about exposure to asbestos announced by the Supreme Court....

Date Online: 09/03/2011

Campaigners want council to change housing allocation for Turners site

The Chairman of the TBA Working Party, William Hobhouse, has asked the Council to change the housing allocation for the...

Date Online: 12/02/2011

Neighbourhood plan suggested for Spodden Valley

Residents will get the opportunity to put together their own neighbourhood plan for the old TBA site under a Coalition...

Date Online: 31/01/2011

MMC to submit new planning application to build on asbestos site

Following the recent rejection by RMBC of the initial planning application, the owners of the Turner Brothers former asbestos...

Date Online: 17/01/2011

Turner Brothers site planning application rejected

A planning application to develop the former Turner Brothers site has been rejected. Rochdale council announced today (Thursday 13 January...

Date Online: 13/01/2011

Spodden Valley decision imminent

Spodden Valley campaigners will find out next week whether a building application for the controversial site has been rejected. A...

Date Online: 07/01/2011

SSV in asbestos demo

Widows and widowers of asbestos cancer victims protested outside the Canadian High Commission and Quebec Government offices on Thursday (9...

Date Online: 11/12/2010

Spotland's 1000th birthday

There is a strong case for celebrating today, (Friday 22 October 2010) as a landmark date for Spotland. Historians suggest...

Date Online: 22/10/2010

Rochdale asbestos victims to attend cancer awareness day

Asbestos victims and campaigners from Rochdale will be attending a raising awareness of mesothelioma event in Manchester this Friday (2...

Date Online: 29/06/2010

SSV after six years: We are not going away

The Save Spodden Valley (SSV) group celebrated their 6th anniversary earlier this month (June 2010), and campaigner Jason Addy says...

Date Online: 08/06/2010

A natural, green regeneration of Spodden Valley

In 2004 woodland in the Spodden Valley was felled in an act that precipitated the Save Spodden Valley campaign. In...

Date Online: 28/05/2010

Housing Minister asks about Spodden Valley asbestos site

Campaigners Dave Phillips, Laurie Kazan Allen and Jason Addy have met with Housing and Regeneration Minister John Healey in Westminster. The...

Date Online: 12/03/2010

Government announcment - asbestos pleural plaques

The Government has announced that it will not reverse the Law Lords decision which ended compensation for pleural plaques. Instead,...

Date Online: 03/03/2010

Council u-turn on asbestos site

The Council has decided to delete reference to the Turner Brothers Asbestos (TBA) site in its Core Strategy. The government’s...

Date Online: 29/01/2010

Abestos site - planning application fifth anniversary

This week is the FIFTH birthday of the controversial planning application for hundreds of homes and a children's nursery on...

Date Online: 24/12/2009

TBA asbestos site - more shocking council documents...

Rochdale Online has gained access to public documents that raise the stakes in the Spodden Valley asbestos planning application saga....

Date Online: 11/12/2009

Council in asbestos site shock

At a meeting of the TBA Working Party this week, a frank admission was made by MMC Estates that “due...

Date Online: 27/11/2009

Asbestos - warning on hidden killer

A £1.2 million campaign is aiming to protect tradesmen from across Greater Manchester from the UK’s biggest industrial killer. Figures show...

Date Online: 04/11/2009