Rochdale

[roch-deyl]

noun

1. a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.

Rochdale

/ ˈrɒtʃˌdeɪl /

noun

1. a town in NW England, in Rochdale unitary authority, Greater Manchester: former centre of the textile industry. Pop: 95 769 (2001)

2. a unitary authority in NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 206 600 (2003 est). Area: 159 sq km (61 sq miles)

Example Sentences

A victim of the Rochdale child grooming gangs killed herself after years of torment over the scandal, a coroner has ruled.

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Unite said members working for Stagecoach, Metroline and First Bus Rochdale had voted to take the action over the weekend of 19-22 September.

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Members at First Bus Rochdale felt a pay offer of 6% did not go far enough to address the fact that "they have been the lowest paid in the region for years", on £15 an hour, the union said.

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Hopwood DePree has led an operation to safeguard historic Hopwood Hall in Middleton, Greater Manchester, since 2017, and says he complied with an agreement with Rochdale Borough Council that gave him the option to buy the building.

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But he says relations soured when the council's Rochdale Development Agency became more involved in 2024, and DePree's legal case accuses the agency of trying to "poison everything my team and I had worked so hard to achieve".

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