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Ofcom awards four new community radio licences

Ofcom today announces the award of four new community radio licences.

Community radio services typically cover a small geographical area and are provided on a not-for-profit basis focusing on the delivery of specific social benefits to enrich a particular geographical community or a community of interest.

Ofcom has awarded community radio licences in the following areas:

• Rossendale Valley, Lancashire
• Bollington, Cheshire
• Biddulph, Staffordshire
• Knowsley, Merseyside

The new community radio licensees in each of these areas are:

Rossendale Radio, Rossendale Valley
Contact: Antony Nixon, Rossendale Radio CIC, Haslingden Community Link & Children’s Centre, Bury Road, Haslingden, Rossendale, Lancashire, BB4 5PG. Telephone: 0800 043 0441. E-mail: info@rossendaleradio.co.uk Website: www.rossendaleradio.co.uk

Rossendale Radio will serve the people who live in, work in and visit the communities of Lancashire’s Rossendale Valley. The station will provide a comprehensive, trustworthy, community-focused service with a strong emphasis on local information, empowerment and social action campaigning.

Canalside Radio, Bollington
Contact: Nick Wright, Canalside Community Radio, Unit 2B, Clarence Mill, Clarence Road, Bollington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 5JZ. Telephone: 01625 576689. Email: office@ccr-fm.co.uk Website: www.ccr-fm.co.uk

Canalside Radio will be an accessible and open to all service, providing training, community activities and a broadcasting facility serving Bollington, and the surrounding area.

Moorlands Radio, Biddulph
Contact: Tony Mullins, 3, Mossfield Drive, Biddulph, Staffordshire ST8 6UL. Telephone: 07766 986688. Email: tony@moorlandsradio.co.uk Website: www.moorlandsradio.co.uk

Moorlands Radio will serve the rural towns of Leek and Biddulph along with smaller villages across the Staffordshire Moorlands. It will include programmes produced and presented by local people, local music, access to local leaders and politicians, and it aims to develop local talent through in-house training schemes.

KCC Live, Knowsley
Contact: Hywel Evans, KCC Live, Knowsley Community College, Rupert Road, Liverpool L36 9TD. Telephone: 0151 477 5997. Email: communityradio@knowsleycollege.ac.uk Website: www.kcclive.com

KCC Live will broadcast to young people (10-24 year olds) in Knowsley. This target community will benefit from participation in exciting, non-elitist, highly-varied radio which values and explores, in ways which are relevant to them, their opinions, musical tastes and lives in general.

Licences are awarded for a five-year period.

A statement setting out the main determining factors for the award of the four community radio licences referred to above will be available shortly from the Ofcom website.

NOTES FOR EDITORS

1. In addition to the licence awards detailed above, Ofcom considered five further applications, but has decided not to award a licence to the following groups:

• Kat FM, Crewe and Nantwich
• Tatton FM, Tatton, Cheshire
• Halt FM, Altrincham, Cheshire
• CCM, Congleton, Cheshire
• Southport Community Radio

2. Applications for community radio licences are being invited on a region-by-region basis. Further details can be found on the Ofcom website at: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/commun_radio/

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