I now have the official figures (surprisingly) from freedom of information requests I made in October and the cost of the failed versions of Prince’s Gate to Oldham Council is £3.3 million and the cost…
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Despite already spending well over £42 million of public cash on the town hall cinema, a development originally supposed to cost £10 million, Oldham Labour Council are spending another undisclosed amount over £250,000 to fit…
Another quarter of a million allocated for new school places in just four Oldham schools due to ongoing record levels of international new arrivals. Migration already used up all spare Oldham school capacity with a…
When Jim McMahon’s brainchild “Our House” store was declared bankrupt just four months after opening in 2015 it was clear that Labour Oldham’s business acumen and suitable partner procurement protocol was clearly in question. Who…
You really couldn’t make this up Labour Oldham councillor Shoab Akhtar appearing on UK44 TV channel telling people that a vote for Labour will mean an increase in your benefits. UK44 is part of the…
Oldham Labour poster boy MP Jim McMahon’s Oldham Town Hall Cinema Opened 3 years ago today on 21/10/2016 let’s celebrate his success and the accuracy of his cost and outcome economic assessment which promised a…
Let’s play the democracy card by ignoring the biggest democratic mandate in UK history and order another referendum which will hopefully go the way I want. “Debbie Abrahams, Labour MP for Leave supporting Oldham East…
Romania rose up the rankings and replaced Poland as the second most common country of birth for foreign-born fathers and the third for non-UK-born mothers in the UK in 2018 just 4 years after being…
In his relentless hunt for votes Oldham Council leader Sean Fielding recently said he would like to help Ferranti at Greenacres move into green technologies rather than military contract work despite Ferranti never asking for…
Ironic at a time when the public are sick to death of out of touch politicians Labour Oldham who cut the entire £45,000 annual funding for the dial a ride service will be wasting £48,000…
Less than two weeks ago, after refusing our freedom of information request, we pointed out that Oldham Council refusing to disclose the cost of theft from Oldham parks after the recent £60,000 theft at Alexandra…
It didn’t take Oldham Labour Council long to refuse our freedom of information request regarding thefts from Oldham parks in light of the recent £60,000 theft from Alexandra park which has gone largely unreported and…
Figures released today show the number of adult migrants registering as living in Oldham between April and June 2019 is the highest number ever recorded for any second quarter time period on record. Don’t expect…
Today’s government release of tax credit figures for 2017 – 2018 shows that only Hackney and Tower Hamlets pay out an higher average amount of tax credit benefits than Oldham and 3 Greater Manchester areas…
Labour Oldham leader Sean Fielding telling everyone on Twitter (he hasn’t blocked) what a wonderful councillor he is when what it really shows is his nimby attitude to his own ward something he and his…