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CAN You Spare A Minute? That’s what we are asking Observer readers for the next 12 months. To tie in with 25 years of fundraising for Springhill Hospice, we have launched an appeal to raise £25,000. And all it is going to cost you is a fiver!Hospice care is free to all patients, but the running costs of Springhill Hospice currently stand at around £6,500 per day – around £5 per minute – which is where you, our readers, can help. To celebrate 25 years of fundraising, the Rochdale Observer aims to raise £25,000 through our Can You Spare A Minute Appeal, which will refurbish one of the hospice’s three in-patient bays. Spare us a minute and donate a minimum of £5 to our appeal – with luck, as the hospice enters its 20th year of providing vital services to our community, we will raise not just enough to refurbish one bay, but all three – the last pieces of the refurbishment jigsaw. This special section will carry news about the fundraising and the hospice throughout the year ...
Election day is 1 May 2008
THE 2008 Rochdale Council elections take place on May 1. This special section will be your comprehensive guide to how the election will work, how and where to vote, all the candidates and - of course - the results as they come in on the big night.
RENEWED plans to re-open a Rochdale quarry, 12 years after residents blocked similar proposals, have been met with outrage once again.All the latest news on the campaign against the plans will appear here ...
PLANS to give Rochdale a major overhaul have been made available to the public. In this section, LAURA SHANNON gives you full details of what each developer has planned for the town centre, complete with images and video of each.
IF YOU have lost a close friend, colleague or family member and would like to pay tribute to them in the Observer, please contact our newsdesk on 354321 or email rochdaleobserver@gmwn.co.uk. Tribute reports in the Observer are free of charge and are separate from the Family Notices service in our classified section but you can also ask your funeral director for a form to fill in and return to us. We are also happy to include a photograph of your loved one with the tribute report.Classified death notices, acknowledgments and in memoriams appear in our Family Notices section where you can leave your messages and create your own 'moving tributes' to your loved ones - click here to go there ...
AS THE sound of Christmas crackers banging is replaced by New Year’s resolutions being broken, Observer news editor Jeni Harvey has set herself a slimming target to shed the festive excess and tone up in a month.You can Jeni’s progress in the Observer this month and also on here our website, where her diary will be regularly updated below ...
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