Oldham Council very good at complaining about government budget cuts and not very good at managing diminishing finances, here are just a few of the things they spent money on in March. Architect, property management…
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An international law enforcement operation has disrupted what is believed to be one of the most significant people smuggling networks operating between Iraq and the UK. National Crime Agency (NCA) officers arrested three suspected members…
It is nine months since Oldham Council leader Jean Stretton was scheduled to announce a delivery partner for Prince’s Gate version 2 after version 1 which was originally due to open in 2017 failed &…
Oldham Labour Council have been debating a motion on adopting a modern slavery policy at their Council meeting on 28/03/2018. Now this would be admirable had it not been that one of their own Labour…
Schools census stats from January 2017 show minority ethnic pupils now make up 46.5% of primary school pupils in state-funded Oldham schools & 39.8% of pupils in state-funded Oldham secondary schools. According to Oldham Council’s…
We have all seen the report on the BBC about child poverty in Oldham which concentrated on tugging at the heart strings and chose to completely avoid an assessment of Oldham’s socioeconomic landscape or the…
Labour Oldham MP Jim McMahon is moaning about the latest employment figures for Oldham. This serial failure forgot to add that 3,130 minimum wage jobs he announced with a fanfare of press releases when serving…
In recent years the area around Foxdenton has been well and truly dumped on by Labour Oldham and the public sector enduring years of building work and loss of green space that is expected to…
Updated 20/03/218 Oldham Council spending records for January 2018 show that they paid the company commissioned to re-brand The Oldham Coliseum theatre, Creative Concern Ltd, £28,268. 29/01/2018 Cash strapped Oldham Council has just agreed to pay…
Oldham Council is yet again searching for yet another development partner for its ill thought out Oldham town centre masterplan. Quote from the latest press release from Oldham Council “Oldham Council is set to formally…
One of the many anomalous statistics we have called out over the years was the fact that 56% more Romanian workers are self-employed than any other nationality group, see here for details. We also went…
Oldham Council has purchased the former Oldham magistrates court site opposite the Civic Centre with the intention of building housing. The site sits in the 024 area which along with neighbour 022 has received the…
The number of pensioners in Greater Manchester has fallen by 5,665 in the last 4 years & the number in Oldham has fallen by 562. Remember that when you are fed purposely inaccurate statistics about…
20,442 adult foreign nationals have registered national insurance numbers from Oldham addresses in the last 16 years with 28% doing so in the last 3 years of which 35% came from Romania. 2015, 2016 and…
Here’s a great example of Oldham Council and their development partners creating public transport & traffic problems. They have moved a bus stop at the junction of Dean Lane, Broadway as part of the Foxdenton…