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1. Singer Shirley was first to hold Kylie's crown
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 26 August 2006THERE was news this week that Kylie Minogue, Australia's best loved singer now recovering from life-threatening cancer, is to make one of her final performances in Manchester next year.
2. Cattle on track for their moving day
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 26 August 2006THESE days rail traffic in the Rochdale area is predominantly for the purpose of conveying passengers.
3. Parish held its own conversion
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 19 August 2006IT IS said that the Lord helps those who help themselves and if that is true Rochdale's Ukrainian community had certainly earned plenty of divine help.
4. Braving the chill to forge out fresh start
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 19 August 2006KUAZ Ali, aged 64 was among the very first Bangladeshi arrivals in Rochdale and one of the leading members who set up community projects that are still running in town to the present day.
5. Taking first steps towards a better life
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 19 August 2006A GOOD slice of the African continent is represented by Rochdale's African communities, yet it is only four years ago that a bona fide organisation was born to support them.
6. Family home at last after saga of misery
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 19 August 2006WHILE the end of the Second World War brought a flood of refugees from Eastern Europe to Britain, the journey took longer for some than others.
7. Expanding firm cast its net across the globe
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 19 August 2006MANY Rochdale firms benefitted from an influx of workers from overseas - few more so than the Alderglen Manufacturing Company.
8. Church row hung over club's big night
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 19 August 2006ALTHOUGH it was a time of celebration there was a touch of controversy, too, about the opening of the £4,000 extension to Rochdale's Anglo-Yugoslav Club.
9. Moon landing no match for egg and spoon race
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 19 August 2006ON 20 July 1969, most Rochdale folk were among the largest audience for any single event in human history gathered before their television sets across the world to watch Neil Armstrong become the first man on the moon.
10. Port in storm for people all at sea
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 19 August 2006THEIRS was a plight that touched the hearts of the world - so desperate were they to escape their homeland they risked death in hope of finding a new life.