In its latest round of capital spending changes Oldham Council has once again moved spending on its “gamechanging” “flagship” and wishful thinking regeneration projects forward in time. £9.5 million of spending for Prince’s Gate has…
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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…
Extra funding for the council to combat housing benefit fraud in the self-employment sector which has seen rapid growth since 2011. Oldham is to receive the second highest rate of new government funding in Greater…
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…
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show the employment rate for women with dependant children in England is 74% and the employment rate for women with dependant children in Oldham is 56.6% almost a…
The local press are staying silent on two Labour Oldham councillors who have been suspended from the Labour party. James Larkin from Royton and Montaz Ali Azad the Coldhurst councillor previously struck off as a…
Good to see Oldham leading the way again this time it is the number of hostilities committed against fire and rescue personnel in Greater Manchester with 8 incidents between April and June, the other 9…
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…
Anyone heard of “Northern Roots”? No neither have we, it appears to be another of those secretive Oldham Council public funded schemes which should be filed in a utopia wishful thinking portfolio. Although the council…
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…
There is nothing quite like edging your bets, I wonder if Oldham Council will win North West in bloom best town centre award again this year? You could not make this up, there’s no prestige…
Government statistics released today show that in 2013 fifty one other UK local authority areas had a lower percentage of children living in “working households” where all adults worked than Oldham, by 2017 just three…
Austerity challenged Oldham Council is spending £450,000 creating a Geospatial information system team with 67% of the money being spent on three new high salaried positions. Read the detailed information here Cash strapped Oldham…
Since taking over leadership of Oldham Council in May after the previous leader Jean Stretton was ousted by a political coup which was orchestrated by key members and influencers of the Oldham Labour group, Sean…