http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/ Main News RSSMaster 1.0 (http://www.softtool.info/rssmaster) en-GB Local Conservatives have selected Stephanie Mills to represent Littleborough Lakeside Ward in this year's May local elections. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/news/littleboroughcandidate.aspx On the day the Conservative Party’s launched it’s General Election Campaign in the North West Baroness Sayeeda Warsi visited the Castlemere Community Centre in Rochdale. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/news/baroness-warsi-rochdale.aspx The people of Rochdale have been let down by both Labour and the Lib Dems. Never before has the Conservative slogan "It's time for Change" been so relevant and important to help change the direction of this town and our Nation. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/news/rochdale-let-down.aspx Rochdale Conservative Association for this year’s community action programme has collected toys for the Salvation Army Appeal. The collection has been organised by prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Mudasir Dean and Cath Merrick the Conservative candidate for Milnrow and Newhey in the local elections who are seen here with some of the items collected. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/news/salvation-army-appeal.aspx Councillor Mike Holly has been adopted as the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Conservative Party, for the Heywood and Middleton Constituency (including Bamford, Castleton & Norden) http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/news/mike-holly-heywood-and-middleton.aspx Rochdale Conservatives have selected Mudasir Dean as their Parliamentary Candidate to contest the next General Election. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/news/mudasir-dean-rochdale.aspx People across Rochdale paid their respect to the town’s fallen war heroes during Remembrance Day services. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/news/rochdale-remembers.aspx Former Bamford Conservative Councillor, Ian Duckworth welcomes Link4Life's decision to withdraw the application for a golf driving range in Springfield park http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/news/golf-driving-range-application-withdrawn.aspx A former Bamford Councillor, IAN DUCKWORTH, who has served as a professional soldier in Germany and Northern Ireland, is backing calls for the government to recognise and honour military service undertaken from 1945 onwards. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/new/national-defence-medal.aspx In thanking all those who recently voted for us, I write to remind all Heywood Conservatives that our positive results in the European elections still allow no room for complacency. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/news/heywood-conservatives-summer-update.aspx Conservatives came first in Rochdale Borough in the European Elections, gaining more votes than Labour and the Lib Dems. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/news/Conservatives-Top-Euro-Vote-in-Rochdale.aspx Bamford Primary School no longer have a lollipop lady to escort the children across the road and has been re-sited elsewhere - this is since the £50,000 Puffin Crossing was constructed by the Lib.Dem-run Council on Norden Road outside Bamford Precinct. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/news/lib-dems-scrap-school-crossing-patrol.aspx It is supposed to be good news that we now have a three star Council. I’m sure the good people of Rochdale will jump for joy at hearing that when we have a town centre that is slowly slipping further into decline, we have some of the worst roads in the north west, our once popular market is losing stalls and trade, and we have been labelled the benefit capital of the country. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/news/threestarsarenotenough.aspx Heywood Conservatives put on a Last Night of the Proms concert at the Hopwood Unionist Club. A packed hall of over a hundred music lovers were entertained by Rochdale Youth Wind Band. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/News/LastNightOfThePromsEvening.aspx Bamford Conservatives have hailed the decision, in which the Lib-Dem run Council planned to impose double yellow lines on residents of Norden Road, a victory for common sense. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/News/YellowLinesPlan.aspx Paul Rowen, the Lib Dem Council and Labour’s Simon Danczuk have all been given a massive slap across the face by the people of Rochdale over their support for a congestion charge. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/news/rochdalenovotecongestioncharge.aspx One the favourite Christmas pop hits always re-issued at this time of year contains a line suggesting that “the Christmas we get, we deserve.” Whether or not we share that belief in Karma it is difficult to imagine what so many thousands of people have done to deserve a miserable Christmas that sees their property prices falling, their savings dwindling and their jobs under threat. http://www.rochdaleconservatives.com/news/sothisischristmas.aspx