Labour MP Debbie Abrahams tweeted a fake news story told at the Labour party conference about a pregnant woman who was beaten by her low life husband. Betraying her feminist stance on other stories you…
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Here’s Oldham Labour Council’s response to our freedom of information request on the numbers of foreign born children in Oldham schools. Apparently the Council the body who oversee school admissions don’t actually collect any data…
Figures released yesterday show that in the last year 42% of the increase in unemployment benefits claims across all 10 local authority areas that make up Greater Manchester occurred in Oldham.
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…
(Eighth update) Streets full of dog-mess, overflowing bins, fly-tipping, two green flag parks where the borough used to have seven yet cash strapped Oldham Council has spent has spent another £7,471 in August and £4,720…
The last 12 months have seen some genuine highlights and progress for Oldham. A personal favourite was confirming all the funding is in place for our exciting plans for a new Arts and Heritage Centre…
According to the UK official competitive index Oldham is the least competitive business place in Greater Manchester rating as the 15th worst out of 379 UK local authority areas. “competitiveness is considered to consist of…
In 2016 39.3% of births in Oldham occurred in families where either one or both parents are foreign born. When you add the increase in foreign born school aged children arriving in Oldham to the…
It is such a shame that Oldham Council couldn’t find time to show the Britain in bloom judges around the piles of festering rubbish around Ashton Rd whilst lauding their horticultural brilliance in neighbouring Alexandra…
In the financial year 2016/2017 Labour Oldham council paid out £22.4 million in interest charges alone for the boroughs ludicrous levels of prudential borrowing. The interest payment was almost three times the actual repayment cost…
Spineless Labour Oldham politicians, McMahon, Abrahams and Stretton are campaigning for a statue of suffragette Annie Kenney to be placed near the old town hall. All fine and dandy except they all stay silent on…
Why is Oldham Council paying the electricity bill at the old town hall cinema development? The council’s published official spending records show £67,548 was paid in January & February 2017 by the council for electricity…
In January Oldham’s Pennine Acute Trust had the second busiest A&E department in England & the second highest number of patients waiting more than twelve hours to be admitted.
Labour Oldham MP Jim McMahon’s crowdfunding appeal to raise £8,000 for a statue of suffragette Annie Kenney outside the old town hall cinema is little more than a contrived publicity stunt aimed at promoting the…