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The Manchester Evening News (MEN) is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in North West England, founded in 1868.It is published Monday–Saturday; a Sunday edition, the MEN on Sunday, was launched in February 2019. [3]
Sara Louise Rowbotham (MBE) is a British local councillor, community leader and former health worker in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, notable for helping to expose the child sex abuse ring there. She has served as Deputy leader of Rochdale Borough Council since 2018, and was first elected to represent North Middleton in 2015. She is also the ...
The Local Government Act 1972 created a two-tier system of metropolitan counties and districts covering Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, and West Yorkshire starting in 1974. Rochdale was a district of the Greater Manchester metropolitan county. [1]
Rochdale (/ ˈ r ɒ tʃ d eɪ l / ROTCH-dayl) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, and the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. [2] In the 2021 Census, the town had a population of 111,261, compared to 223,773 for the wider borough.
A by-election took place on 29 February 2024 in the UK Parliament constituency of Rochdale following the death of Labour MP Sir Tony Lloyd. [1] [2] [3] The winner was George Galloway of the Workers Party of Britain, who received 40% of the vote and overturned a 9,668 vote Labour majority at the 2019 general election. [4]
The county council was abolished in 1986 and its functions passed to Greater Manchester's ten borough councils, including Rochdale, with some services provided through joint committees. [ 9 ] Since 2011 the council has been a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority , which has been led by the directly elected Mayor of Greater ...
As a detective constable, Oliver worked on the Rochdale child sex abuse ring case for the Greater Manchester Police.She claims that the convictions that were made in the Rochdale child sex abuse ring of 9 men in early 2012 barely scratched the surface of what she describes as a highly-organised crime group of hundreds of perpetrators against countless young victims. [7]
An independent review of child sex exploitation was commissioned by the Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham after a BBC documentary The Betrayed Girls about child sex abuse cases in Greater Manchester was aired in 2017. [60] The third part of the review, which focuses on Rochdale was released on 15 January 2024.