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22 Article(s) Found
I had to go into Heywood yesterday afternoon to buy a few bits and bats and do a few banking...
Date Online: 18/05/2012
In June, the Olympic torch will wend its way through Rochdale and Heywood, carried aloft by people deemed worthy of...
Date Online: 29/03/2012
The month after next, the local elections will be upon us once again and I am minded to stand as...
Date Online: 06/03/2012
I suppose by Hollywood standards, £54,000 is not much to spend on a film. I mean, it cost $200 million...
Date Online: 08/02/2012
On Rochdale Online’s news pages I was interested in three separate and seemingly unrelated stories relating to young people.
Firstly,...
Date Online: 16/01/2012
Twenty one years ago this week, the United Nations declared 1981 as the Year of the Disabled Person. We were...
Date Online: 05/01/2012
And so, next Wednesday, we are to be treated to a one-day strike of public sector workers which, depending on...
Date Online: 24/11/2011
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther...
Date Online: 14/11/2011
Well, I don't know Wera personally but I wish her well in her new role and hope that she possesses...
Date Online: 12/05/2011
“Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.”
John Mortimer
Congratulations to the Rochdale Infirmary Players who have just produced...
Date Online: 10/02/2011
It’s been a strange couple of weeks for me. I’ve started to write my opinion piece three or four times...
Date Online: 10/12/2010
Well, at last what we have long predicted and feared will soon come to pass.
Rochdale’s last hospital will soon...
Date Online: 09/11/2010
“In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall....
Date Online: 18/10/2010
And so, George Osborne of all people has found an issue upon which to unite the country. There’s nothing that...
Date Online: 05/10/2010
Great men should not have great faults
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
I was reading about the reaction of the late...
Date Online: 20/09/2010
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the...
Date Online: 06/09/2010
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was...
Date Online: 31/08/2010
Well, there I was in the town centre on Saturday together with Mrs Hardcastle and the two boys. The place...
Date Online: 15/08/2010
Word reaches my rheumy old ears about the Town Centre Mis-management’s latest contribution to their ‘Shop Local’ initiative that they’ve...
Date Online: 08/08/2010
Like many, I turned out to hear Mrs Gloria Oates OBE DL attempt to reassure us at the public consultation...
Date Online: 08/07/2010
I read with a mixture of boredom and general disinterest, news reports of Councillor Greg Couzens exhorting us to sign...
Date Online: 05/07/2010
Following England’s disastrous exit from the World Cup I was watching the BBC panel of Lineker, Hansen and Shearer dissect...
Date Online: 29/06/2010
