It is an area of faded and sometimes derelict textile warehouses gathered around the Rochdale canal. The difference made by the CMDC since it was set up in 1988 is immediately apparent.
Mother-of-four Isobel Leyland, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, was shot dead during a terrorist attack on a security patrol in Belfast.
In the UK, a series of ritual abuse cases were supposedly discovered by social service investigators in the Orkney Islands and then in Rochdale, northern England.