Mike Harding News

After their triumphant evening at this year's Radio 2 Folk Awards, veteran singer June Tabor and Oysterband must be wondering why they left it 21 years before resuming a collaboration that began in 1990 with the album Freedom and Rain .

Mike Harding put the town in the pop charts with his 1974 novelty hit Rochdale Cowboy.

The cream of the folk scene will on Wednesday head to Salford for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, the showpiece event of the year.

PREMIER roots couple Miranda Sykes and Rex Preston arrive at the Westward Inn, Lee Mill, for Folk On The Moor this Sunday.

He will collect his gong from the station's folk DJ Mike Harding - who he first recorded with in the 1970s.