The secret safety battle over Rochdale’s Seven Sisters
SPECIAL REPORT: As clutter boxes pile high in the living rooms of the 90 remaining households on Rochdale's College Bank estate, an M.E.N. investigation uncovers BSR building safety notices, £1.7m empty council tax bills, and the human cost of a decade-long housing limbo. George Lythgoe reports.
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