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Success with Off Road Bikers.<br />
On Sunday 13th August Police seized two uninsured vehicles used to<br />
transport off-road motor bikes up to the moor from Rooley Moor Road. On the<br />
same day in a separate incident the Police seized an off-road motor bike<br />
leaking petrol into a feeder stream to Naden reservoirs and the rider was<br />
reported for summons.<br />
Scout Moor Wind Farm Expansion Plan.<br />
Peel Energy have not appealed against the Secretary of States decision to<br />
refuse the 14 turbines in the Rossendale area and time has now run out. We<br />
don’t know at this stage whether the 2 planned for Scout Moor in <strong>Rochdale</strong> will<br />
still go ahead.<br />
3. I Didn’t Know That.<br />
The Coiners of Cragg Vale.<br />
Bell House, former residence of “King” David Hartley.<br />
The Cragg Vale Coiners were a band of counterfeiters based in Cragg Vale.<br />
They produced fake gold coins in the late 18th century to supplement small<br />
incomes from weaving.<br />
Led by "King" David Hartley, the Coiners obtained real coins from investors<br />
sometimes on the promise that they could "grow" the investment by smelting<br />
the original metals with base ores. They removed the coins genuine edges and<br />
milled them again, collecting the shavings. The coins were only slightly<br />
smaller. They then melted down the shavings to produce counterfeits. Designs<br />
were punched into the blanks with a hammer and coining kit and the fake<br />
coins circulated. The Cragg Coiners were so successful because Yorkshire<br />
was quite isolated from central England.
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