Seven people have alleged that they were sexually and physically abused at a residential school linked to the late Sir Cyril Smith.
The allegations from the 1970s onwards relate to Knowl View School in Rochdale, where the Liberal Democrat MP served as chairman of governors.
In November 2012, Greater Manchester police said Smith abused young boys in the 1960s in his role as secretary of the Rochdale Hostel for Boys Association. He had been accused of abusing eight youngsters at Cambridge Hostel in the town by spanking and touching them.
Police then began looking at fresh claims of abuse at Knowl View, a council-run school for vulnerable boys which closed in the mid-1990s .... http://www.theguardian.com
