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…
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Labour Oldham have cancelled library fines the decision “was made to encourage more people to use the 12 libraries across the borough and increase literacy levels among young people.” The Council’s press release just casually…
More evidence of the impact of recent high fertility immigration on both the benefit system and early years provision. Government tax credit figures show that in the 2 years between August 2014 and August 2016…
Tucked away in the back of the recently published Oldham Council housing needs document they finally admit that immigration is now the main cause of population growth in Oldham. This is just part of the…
Here’s our graph with the updated ONS mid 2018 population estimates released yesterday. There has been no population density increase in Scotland population up by just 13,300, no population density increase in Wales population up…
Rarely has Chronic-Oldham read such a delusional analysis of Oldham and how Labour Oldham are going to change things than the imaginary outcome they have conjured up for the Northern Roots project at Alexandra Park…
Nasim Ashraf a member of the Oldham interfaith forum which receives funding from Oldham Labour Council (£18,000 this year) is behind the protest group complaining about same sex education in Oldham schools according to The…
Todays quarterly National Insurance allocation figures show that the number of adult migrants moving to Oldham in the first 9 months of 2018 is at the same level as it was in 2017 with 29%…
Now confirmed as we reported even before the by-election was announced Labour Oldham will be adding Councillor Paul Jacques wife to the Failsworth clique in control of Oldham Council which currently stands at former council…
First Choice Homes Oldham is demolishing 247 rental properties at two high-rise blocks in Coldhurst namely Crossbank House and Summervale House, Oldham’s largest social housing provider will then build 100 new family homes. Like most…
Oldham MP Debbie Abrahams has signed a pledge not to report illegal immigrants to the home office who attend her constituency office. She shared the link on social media for those who think this is…
Local MP Debbie Abrahams Twitter account has endless tweets about the benefits system and failures as a consequence of the Governments ill thought out universal credit system. What she most definitely is not obsessed with…
While Foxdenton Hall in Foxdenton Park rots austerity challenged Oldham Council are spending another £100,000 on Alexandra Park which has already had millions in lottery grants and consumes the majority of Oldham’s annual park and…
Despite Oldham having the highest UK unemployment growth in the last year, the UK’s fourth lowest number of children living in fully working households and the UK’s fourth highest tax credit payment rate the allure…
Today’s regional labour market statistics show that UK unemployment fell to 1.36 million the lowest rate for more than 40 years meanwhile unemployment in Oldham is double the England, Great Britain and UK averages and…