Cyril Smith, child grooming gangs, paedophile networks and now this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35574470
Quick let's find the Rochdale Gazette (or whatever it's called) and start searching through the articles for summat worse. That'll show that dingdangblue. No, hang on a minute, I'd forgotten, I don't give a monkeys.
Have you some evidence to back this up? Does it not happen as much in London? Or Birmingham? Or Sheffield? Or Doncaster? You could be right but please produce the evidence. Rochdale does indeed yet a lot of media coverage.
I've found something much worse from that neck of the woods.. http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=10897
Ok, so then the answer to your question in the title of this thread is, for now, "not much more than anywhere else". As you were.
Yes, because of my inability to compile detailed crime statistics across all of the metropolitan boroughs in the UK, you have won at this this thread. You massive Lancashire Joey.
To be fair to him, he's only on here because Rochdale are experiencing the same issue with Wembley tickets as we are. Eh? Oh...
Just wondering....do you and dingledangle have some kind of alert in place that tells you when someone on here mentions Rochdale for some reason? Or do you both just love passing the time of day on here, so are constantly monitoring this forum just in case there is something that interests you? Just curious that's all.
To be fair, most of these have also been recorded in Rotherham - and I'm not sure anyone has ever seen Cyril Smith and Steve Evans together... A couple of jobs ago we were all called to a redundancy meeting in Rotherham (while they locked us out of the office in Wakefield!). We were all sat around waiting except for one lad. When we rang him to find out where he was, he was just driving around the outskirts of Rochdale ...