Contents:
- Editor's welcome
- Stunning replica of planet Earth comes to Rochdale
- Cycling Without Age: Connecting with the great outdoors
- GEM Appeal funds Tecan machine for Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
- Keep your festive shopping local this Christmas
- Hairdressing Trend - Smoky Charcoal
- Do you speak ‘Manc’, ‘Lancashire’ or ‘posh’? Findings from largest ever study of Greater Manchester accents and dialects revealed
- New exhibitions at Touchstones explore Rochdale heritage and identities
- Gym owner’s World Record
- Make a difference this Christmas by choosing Fairtrade
- Toad Lane Concerts: Music at Lunchtime
- Busy Beans Coffee celebrates Good Food award
- Russell’s Café moves to Yorkshire Street
- Rochdale Riverside: Award-winning flagship shopping & leisure development transforms town centre
- Little Amal visits Rochdale »
- Barton Kendal wins The British Property Lettings Award for Rochdale
- Step-by-step guide to buying a new house
- Rochdale powerlifter wins bronze at International World Championships
- Chocolate Orange Yule Log recipe
- Beauty Feature: Skin supplements; working from the inside out
- Independent optician Stephen Holt celebrates 50 years of business
- Beware the coming winter of discontent
Winter 2021Little Amal visits Rochdale
Little Amal – a nine-year-old refugee girl in the form of a 3.5 metre puppet – walked through Rochdale on Tuesday 2 November, in search of her mother.
Little Amal has travelled from the Syrian border across Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium in search of her mother, stopping at 65 places on the way, including Rochdale where crowds gathered in their masses to greet her.
Her journey represents those taken by millions of people who have been displaced by war or persecution, especially children. At this time of multiple global crises, her urgent message to the world is, ‘don’t forget about us’.
‘The Walk’ is a public art project produced for Good Chance in association with Handspring Puppet Company, world-famous creators of the horse puppets in War Horse.