The Latest Breaking News from Rochdale

The council owned plot - previously home to Wynsors, Focus and MFI - is to be developed as part of the wider Station Gateway plans for a 1,500 home ‘urban community’.

An M.E.N investigation after death of Awaab Ishak in revealed the extent of problems of damp and mould at housing association RBH's properties in Freehold, Rochdale. But it isn't just Rochdale, and it isn't just RBH. Here, Jigsaw Homes Group tenants across Tameside speak of the hazards in their homes

The £100m regeneration of the town centre continues apace

11-month-old Kia was left with cuts and injuries to her face and eyes after being attacked in Rochdale

The youngest is a five-year-old girl who vanished while visiting relatives

It comes as the housing secretary promises action following the toddler's death

'I don't look forward to the future, I live day by day'

"It’s nothing to do with us. We haven’t had that housing stock for 10 and a half years now.”

Coun John Taylor said it was an ‘opportunity for change’ that Rochdale council ‘ought to grasp with two hands’.

Middleton Independents Party said they had ‘significant concern’ over a series of events that led up to the failure of the market

A watchdog has found "widespread failings" at the housing association where two-year-old Awaab Ishak was exposed to mould and died days after his birthday