1. School vandal bill to hit £1M

Rochdale Observer, Friday 28 January 2005
VANDALISM at Rochdale schools could give the council a massive £1M headache.

2. Boat firm gets royal approval

Rochdale Observer, Friday 28 January 2005
A BOAT-building couple from Castleton received royal praise at an exhibition for their range of specially-adapted boats.

3. £120,000... and still rising

Rochdale Observer, Friday 28 January 2005
ROCHDALE Council is spending almost £120,000 on mobile phones for staff, plus tens of thousands of pounds more in call charges.

4. Remembered... the Holocaust horror

Rochdale Observer, Friday 28 January 2005
ROCHDALE paid its respects to people who lost their lives in the evil of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

5. Schools hit jackpot as art dream comes true

Rochdale Observer, Friday 28 January 2005
TWO schools are in for massive cash windfalls to become centres of excellence for art.

6. Preacher’s journey of hope

Rochdale Observer, Friday 28 January 2005
GLOBETROTTING preacher, the Rev Alan Reeve, has been giving aid to Indian people who had their lives devastated by the tsunami.

7. Spikey will add a buzz to cash bid

Rochdale Observer, Friday 28 January 2005
FALINGE Park High School is getting extra-special help in its bid to gain performing arts status.

8. Prejudice the enemy

Rochdale Observer, Friday 28 January 2005
IF northern towns have a fair knowledge of racial strife, the Oxford and Cambridge of sectarianism is certainly Northern Ireland.

9. Property price guide - OL13 to OL16, OL2 to OL3

Rochdale Observer, Wednesday 26 January 2005
OUR table shows the latest house prices in your neighbourhood. Simply scroll down the left hand column to locate your postcode and sector and move across to the type of house you own - detached, semi-detached or terraced. That will give you the average prices of similar homes in your immediate area that were sold from October to December 2004. Also included is the number of sales of houses of that type during the quarter. The table is compiled every quarter by the Land Registry and is the most reliable indicator of house price trends. We will update the table each quarter when the statistics are made available. The figures are Crown Copyright Click here for the prices from between July and September 2004.

10. Property price guide

Rochdale Observer, Wednesday 26 January 2005
OUR table shows the latest house prices in your neighbourhood. Simply scroll down the left hand column to locate your postcode and sector and move across to the type of house you own - detached, semi-detached or terraced. That will give you the average prices of similar homes in your immediate area that were sold from October to December 2004. Also included is the number of sales of houses of that type during the quarter. The table is compiled every quarter by the Land Registry and is the most reliable indicator of house price trends. We will update the table each quarter when the statistics are made available. The figures are Crown Copyright Click here for the prices from between July and September 2004.