Seven men have been found guilty of sexually exploiting two teenage girls who were repeatedly raped and assaulted in Rochdale for five years. The gang was convicted at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court of various sexual offences against the girls between 2001 and 2006. The victims were groomed from the age of 13 and treated...
Former Rochdale midfielder Joe Thompson has died at the age of 36. He was diagnosed with cancer for a third time in April last year, five years after he retired from playing. Thompson was found to have stage four lymphoma – a type of blood cancer – which had spread to his lungs after twice...