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1. Fuel used to be regular, cheap - and poisonous
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 5 July 2008WITH Britain, like most countries in the world, feeling the pinch of rising oil prices, there has never been a more pressing need to turn to alternative forms of energy.
2. What's on guide
Rochdale Observer, Tuesday 1 July 2008YOUR weekly guide to the best of what's on in Rochdale borough and beyond ...
3. Community noticeboard - Rochdale
Rochdale Observer, Thursday 19 June 2008COMMUNITY Noticeboard is our service to all societies, associations and church groups in the area ... here's what's going on in the Rochdale area.
4. Community Noticeboard - Whitworth and Healey
Rochdale Observer, Monday 9 June 2008COMMUNITY Noticeboard is our service to all societies, associations and church groups in the area ... here's what's going on in the Whitworth and Healey area.
5. Remembering mill visit of famous Fred
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 7 June 2008AN INDUSTRIAL historian and author is looking for help from Observer readers about the demolition of the Era Mill chimney by Fred Dibnah in April 1979.
6. End of the line for rail route
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 31 May 2008THE news that the Government has finally released the funding to allow the Metrolink extension to reach Rochdale, albeit the station rather than into the town centre, is another milestone in the town’s transport history.
7. Putting a different spin on things
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 31 May 2008AS MOST people of a certain vintage will probably know, Rochdale was Britain’s first industrial boomtown – and its success was built on its burgeoning cotton industry.
8. Rochdale Expats - try our new map!
Rochdale Observer, Friday 30 May 2008OUR popular Expats feature has just got better, with the introduction of a new interactive map which shows you exactly where in the world Rochdalians now live. Click here to explore the map and to mark your own pinpoint on it ...
9. Mayor and his wife travel back in time
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 17 May 2008IT’S not every day that workers going home at tea-time have a visual reminder of times past – but that’s what happened one sunny July evening in Rochdale town centre in 1967.
10. When the town looked to Africa
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 17 May 2008AS MAJOR unrest continues in Zimbabwe against a backdrop of rampant inflation, electoral fraud, and failing crops, it’s perhaps not all that well known that Rochdale was once a major trading partner of the African country – then known as Southern Rhodesia.