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1. Lifted out of trouble at the double
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 23 December 2006THERE was a rude awakening for Spotland Bridge residents as two double decker buses smashed into each other.
2. Touch of international flavour came to scouting movement
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 16 December 2006SCOUTING is a worldwide movement and has been since it was established by Robert Baden Powell in 1907.
3. Fear swept town after outbreak of notorious disease
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 16 December 2006POLIO, or more properly poliomyelitis, was one of the most feared and studied diseases of the first half of the 20th century.
4. Sports crowd fall under duo's spell
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 9 December 2006THE scene: Rochdale Cricket ground, Dane Street, Saturday 2 June, 1951. The occasion: Rochdale Borough Police sports.
5. Dapple-grey stallion led bride-to-be in fine style
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 9 December 2006HEADS usually turn as a bride drives to her wedding. They did in Castleton last month when a young bride arrived at the church in a fire engine, complete with blue flights flashing and sirens going.
6. Grandfather of Co-ops is still standing
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 2 December 2006IT IS the great survivor of the Pioneer movement - there at the beginning and now, more than a century and a half on, its oldest surviving relic.
7. Price check
Rochdale Observer, Wednesday 29 November 2006HOW times change - see how products and prices changed over the years in Rochdale ...
8. Pupils wing their way back to school
Rochdale Observer, Friday 24 November 2006AIR travel has come a long way in the past 60 years or so.
9. Family’s guest always made gallop for the dinner table
Rochdale Observer, Friday 24 November 2006WITH the advent of fast food, TV dinners and the like, that grand old tradition, the family Sunday lunch, seems to be relegated to the pages of history.
10. New-fangled computer keeps 'Big Brother' eye on motorists
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 18 November 2006WITH the advent of the new, modern Rochdale Exchange shopping centre came a state-of-the-art car park - with Ernest Taylor proudly at the helm.