Plans to name street after council leader who LIED to child sex abuse inquiry ditched after outcry
Rochdale council has U-turned on plans to name a street after late former leader Richard Farnell, who was found to have lied under oath to the national sex abuse inquiry. A new street on the site of the old Kirkholt Working Men’s Club was to be christened ‘Richard Farnell Avenue’ - after the Labour councillor who died in 2021, aged 62.