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1. Going extra mile to serve mobile meals

Rochdale Observer, Friday 29 February 2008
NOW in its 51st year, the meals on wheels service in Rochdale is still going strong, testimony to the hard working members of the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service (WRVS).

2. Eric brought taste of rural life to canal

Rochdale Observer, Saturday 1 September 2007
IT’S more than five years ago that the Rochdale Canal was officially reopened to navigation after a £15M facelift, making the canal navigable for its entire 33-mile length from central Manchester to Sowerby Bridge.

3. Youngsters flocked to match of the day

Rochdale Observer, Monday 26 March 2007
WITH the new Wembley Stadium set to host this year's FA Cup Final in May after the prolonged shenanigans of cost, over-runs and delay, it's perhaps an opportune time to have a trawl through the Observer archives this week to a very popular event much looked forward to by the town's schoolboys in the 1950s and 60s.

4. Looking to future at centenary party

Rochdale Observer, Saturday 25 February 2006
IT WAS an occasion described as 'an event unique in the newspaper life of Rochdale', and surely no-one can quibble with that.

5. Charles drove off into steam history

Rochdale Observer, Monday 16 May 2005
CHARLES Hodgson hailed from Yorkshire. But in the 1870s he moved across the Pennines to Lancashire on finding himself a job at Watergrove, where a new reservoir was being built.
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