Corrections & complaints

When we get something wrong, this page is how you have it put right — with response times we hold ourselves to and a public log of significant corrections.

Corrections

When Rochdale Daily publishes a significant inaccuracy, we correct it promptly, and with prominence proportionate to the original error — a corrected article carries a note explaining what was wrong and when it was fixed, and significant corrections are recorded in the public log at the foot of this page.

How to request a correction

Email cc@rochdaledaily.co.uk with:

• the link to the article concerned;
• the precise words or details you say are inaccurate;
• what the accurate position is, with any evidence you can provide; and
• how we can contact you.

We aim to acknowledge correction requests within two working days and to resolve them within seven working days. Where a report concerns an ongoing matter and the facts genuinely remain unclear, we will tell you that and explain what we are doing to establish them. Urgent matters — anything involving safety, legal restriction or serious ongoing harm — are acted on as soon as they are seen; mark your email URGENT and say why.

Right of reply

Anyone directly referenced in our coverage is entitled to respond. If that is you — as an individual, a business or an organisation — email cc@rochdaledaily.co.uk identifying the article and setting out your response. A fair and relevant response is added to the article concerned, clearly presented as your reply. This right exists whether or not the reporting is inaccurate: being the subject of accurate coverage you dispute or wish to contextualise also qualifies.

Complaints

Complaints about our journalism or conduct — as distinct from a factual correction — follow this procedure:

• Step 1. Email cc@rochdaledaily.co.uk with the article or conduct concerned, which of our editorial standards you believe has been breached, and the outcome you seek. We acknowledge within two working days.
• Step 2. The editor investigates and provides a written outcome, normally within fourteen working days: what we found, what we will do, and why. Remedies can include correction, clarification, a published response, amendment, or removal.
• Step 3. If you consider the outcome wrong, reply saying so and why. The complaint is reviewed again in full before a final written position is given.

Rochdale Daily is not currently regulated by IPSO or Impress, so there is no external press regulator to escalate to; this procedure is our undertaking to you, and nothing in it affects any legal rights you have independently of it.

Removal and anonymisation requests

Published articles form a permanent public record and are not removed merely because they are unwelcome. We will, however, act where content is inaccurate, unlawful, in breach of a reporting restriction, or where its continued availability causes harm that clearly outweighs the public interest in the record — for example where charges are dropped or a conviction is overturned, in which case the record is updated to reflect the outcome. Requests go to cc@rochdaledaily.co.uk and are decided under the same procedure and timescales as complaints.

Corrections log

Significant published corrections from July 2026 onwards are recorded here, most recent first.

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Procedure version 1.0 — July 2026. The corrections log above is permanent.