The jury in a trial of eight men accused of historical child sexual exploitation in Rochdale has been discharged for legal reasons. The men deny various alleged sexual offences said to have been ...

BOTH Labour MPs for Rotherham and Rochdale have now backed a national inquiry into child rape gangs - heaping further pressure on Sir Keir Starmer. The two northern towns were at the epicentre ...

Nearly 400 Trumbull residents signed a petition against the proposed new senior center's after-hours uses b the Parks and ...

THEY'VE seen off former Premier League side Oldham Athletic, now Stockton Town are eyeing up their next "huge" FA Trophy occasion and non-league giant killing. And, after the weekend freeze, they ...

Rochdale MP Paul Waugh backs an inquiry if that is "what victims want" The Labour MP for a town where one of the most notorious child sexual exploitation cases of recent years occurred has backed ...

He was found with a severe knife wound on Essex Street in Rochdale at about 02:40 GMT on 1 January and later died, Greater Manchester Police said. Hassan Suliman of Rothesay Terrace in Rochdale ...

Few people outside the town of Rochdale would recognise Abdul Rauf if they saw him. But for those in the know in this Greater Manchester town, the sight of the 55-year-old paedophile, a key figure ...

Looking up at the College Bank tower blocks - known locally as the Seven Sisters - just a few windows project a twinkle of light across the Rochdale skyline. These flats belong to a handful of ...

Paul Waugh, MP for Rochdale, said he backed an inquiry with "key caveats". Nine men who exploited girls as young as 13 in Rochdale were jailed in 2012. Waugh, who was elected last year ...

What makes their testimony all the more painful for me is that I was the Labour MP for Rochdale, one of the northern towns where the scale of the abuse had been at its worst. On the streets of my ...

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A report published in January concludes girls were “left at the mercy” of paedophile grooming gangs in Rochdale for years because of failings by senior police and council bosses. The damning ...