Manchester Health Newswire Archive

North Staffs NHS-SOS Needs Your Help!

Phil Burton-Cartledge, Secretary North Staffs NHS-SOS, 06-04-2006 09:40

Upcoming events in the campaign against jobs cuts at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Spodden Valley - green gateway opens for walkers, wheelchair users and cyclists

Save Spodden Valley, 06-04-2006 08:02

Glorious spring weather greeted dozens of well wishers to the official opening of the lower Spodden pathway improvements and community artwork at Spotland Bridge. Read more >>

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Sheila McKechnie Foundation backs ‘Save Spodden Valley’

Save Spodden Valley, 31-03-2006 11:53

Asbestos concerns and the Save Spodden Valley campaign were recognised this week by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown at a national campaign award ceremony.

Save Spodden Valley campaign co-ordinator Jason Addy and web designer Alice Smith were invited to London by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation. The community campaign from Rochdale was nominated for the Consumer Action award sponsored by Which?
Read more >>

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guerrilla gardeners reclaim some land to grow food!

gorrilla, 20-03-2006 11:23

yesterday a group of people from saturday clubs dosummat reclaimed some land to make a nice space that is now a garden. Read more | 4 comments >>

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Countryside Properties - illegal flyposting danger to cyclists...

Save Spodden Valley, 19-03-2006 09:26

Rochdale has a problem with illegal flyposting on street furniture next to its busiest roads. Many of the culprits are building companies directing drivers to new multi-million pound developments.

Safety groups are concerned that drivers can be distracted by the illegal signs. Cyclists have expressed particular concern about Countryside Properties PLC advertising its Mayfield housing development.
Read more | 2 additions | 2 comments >>

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GET CLUED UP BOUT FOOD Tuesday 28th March 7pm

dosummat, 16-03-2006 20:39

You've seen Supersize Me, know it's time to find out more! Read more >>

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Action Mesothelioma Day 2006 - Manchester

Save Spodden Valley, 01-03-2006 11:27

Over 200 people demonstrated outside Manchester Town Hall -many holding photographs of loved ones lost to asbestos cancer.

A meeting was then held in the Great Hall to remember victims of asbestos and to discuss mesothelioma- past, present and future... Read more | 1 comment >>

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Mesothelioma - Asbestos cancer protest and meeting.

Save Spodden Valley, 26-02-2006 09:38

British Lung Foundation’s Action on Mesothelioma Day

Monday 27th February. Manchester Town Hall:
Photo call 12.30pm Town Hall steps.
Meeting: Great Hall 1-3pm.
Read more | 2 additions >>

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More All-Party asbestos support for Spodden Valley

Save Spodden Valley, 27-01-2006 14:01

Local MP’s Paul Rowen and Jim Dobbin attended the Parliamentary Asbestos All-Party group this Tuesday.

MP, Peers and representatives of organisations concerned with asbestos disease were given an update of the past 6 months in the Spodden Valley.
Read more >>

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Am I the only one in Manchester, with MS?

Elvira Braun, 09-01-2006 20:32

The following letter has been sent to both John Leech MP and the South Manchester Labour Party Read more >>

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European film crew visits Spodden Valley.

Save Spodden Valley, 22-12-2005 21:56

Producer Hendrik Verbeure and Cameraman Mark Schellingerhout are Belgian based filmmakers who have just visited the Spodden Valley. They came to Rochdale to film the former Turners Brothers Asbestos site. This visit is central to their 2 hour documentary on asbestos and the diseases caused by exposure to the dust and fibre. Read more >>

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It was beautiful

saturday club, 20-12-2005 14:33

saturday club got together during dosummats anti over consumption month to say you cant buy beauty... Read more | 6 comments >>

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Big demonstration to protect NHS in Huddersfield

Private Eisenhower Existence, 11-12-2005 20:09

Protection of the National Health Service, in Huddersfield and nationally. Opposal to closures, privatisation, redundancies.
Oodles of people marched in Huddersfield on Saturday 11th December, so many I couldn't see the end of the column, and everyone cheered us on. Read more | 1 addition | 6 comments >>

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Countryside Properties: Yesterday in Parliament-and on the streets of rochdale

Save Spodden Valley, 23-11-2005 23:04

Yesterday, Save Spodden Valley campaigners accompanied by reporters from Granada TV, BBC’s TV North West Tonight, Channel M, BBC GMR and the Manchester Evening News, watched as the first wagons took away asbestos factory rubble from the Spodden Valley site. Read more >>

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Countryside Properties: Contamination blues...

Save Spodden Valley, 23-11-2005 22:47

Last night at Rochdale Town Hall, a packed public audience cheered as the Township planning committee rejected a Countryside Properties (Northern) Ltd application to build 186 homes on the site of a former Tannery, Bleach and Dye works at Greenbooth, Norden. Read more >>

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Spodden Valley asbestos: Tony Blair lost for words...

Save Spodden Valley, 19-11-2005 00:00

At Prime Minister's Question Time, Tony Blair was asked if he could guarantee that the Environment Agency and Health & Safety Executive (HSE) can protect the public against asbestos from the Spodden Valley

The Prime Minister replied:
"I am looking around the Chamber, but I am afraid I am not getting a great deal of help. [Laughter.] "

The Save Spodden Valley campaign explains why this is no laughing matter... Read more | 2 comments >>

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Spodden Valley asbestos - what is going on? ...

Save Spodden Valley, 17-10-2005 12:08

• Urgent ‘secret’ council meeting to curb public rights to speak?
• The public deadline to ask council a question missed by a minute?
• Missing paragraphs in official answers?
• Still no ‘joined-up’ thinking?
Read more | 1 comment >>

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Manchester McD-Day update

Ronald, 15-10-2005 12:25

updates from Manchester's anti-McDonalds weekend: critical mass and stink-bombs Read more | 7 comments >>

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Spodden Valley asbestos- a ‘hot potato’ that nobody wants to hold?

Save Spodden Valley, 11-10-2005 09:47

There is still confusion over which government and council agencies have powers and responsibilities over the site of what was the world’s largest asbestos textile factory. A consortium headed by Countryside Properties wants to build 600 homes and a children’s nursery there.

Was the public’s chance to question the council- ‘Gone in 60 seconds’...?
Read more >>

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Spodden Valley asbestos: Indymedia coverage mentioned in European Parliament

Save Spodden Valley, 27-09-2005 12:43

INDYMEDIA and other internet news archives have been mentioned in the European Parliament’s recent conference on asbestos that discussed a planning application to build 600+ homes and a children's nursery on the site of what was the world's largest asbestos textile factory- Spodden Valley, Rochdale in North West England.. Read more | 2 comments >>

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