Oldham’s hypocrite strikes again
Hypocrite Labour Oldham leader Jim McMahon stated at the Labour Party Conference this week that “Devolution is a Labour value It’s about distributing power from the powerful to the people” yet Mr McMahon was openly…
September 2015
Oldham Council is promoting pseudoscience for Health Awareness Day, what next leeches to cure anemia?
Oldham is having a Health Awareness Day where Oldham Council is teaming up with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Oldham Clinical Commissioning Group, and the Sri Sathya Sai Service Organisation UK a “spiritual” non-medical…
2009-2014 professional, scientific, technical employment increases 18.3% as Oldham continues to expand the lowest paid industry sector.
Oldham continues to miss out on the changing face of the economy as professional, scientific, technical employment increased by 18.3% between 2009-2014 and business administration & support services grew by 18.2% whilst Oldham Council’s chosen…
Bury, Oldham & Tameside are three of the worst ten local authorities for teaching reading.
Bury, Oldham & Tameside had three of the top ten worse results for local authority areas implementation of the Governments focus on phonics approach to teaching reading to children. Worse ten local authorities for phonics…
Oldham continues to top the universal credit claimant figures in the month to August 13th with the highest number of new claimants.
Oldham continues to top the universal credit claimant figures in the month to August 13th with the highest number of new claimants, the Department for Work & Pensions states “The Jobcentre Plus office with the…
Oldham Council is to re-name Cromwell Street, Oldham as University Way
Oldham Council is to re-name Cromwell Street, Oldham as University Way, the Council states “This to reflect the Council’s ambitions to create a “Campus Oldham” approach to the area stretching from the Regional Science Centre…
Budget cutting Oldham Council’s speculative property purchase spending continues unabated.
On the day Oldham’s former registry office at Metropolitan House, Hobson Street was auctioned at Manchester’s Ethiad Stadium with a guide price of £500,000, budget cutting Oldham Council decided to purchase the building. This is…
Oldham budgets under pressure but the Council purchases yet another empty “independent quarter” property
Oldham Council says budgets are under pressure and services & jobs must be cut but they have just allocated another £100,000+ spending (estate agent listing price asked for offers over £100,000) for the purchase of…
80% of social housing lets in Limehurst will be for people who meet the WorkingXtra criteria, xtra being not very much.
After a submission from Regenda Homes Oldham Council has decided that for twelve months 80% of social housing lets in Limehurst will be for people who meet the WorkingXtra criteria which is: one person must…
Early warning signs for the the future use of farming land in Oldham
Policy driven early warning signs could spell disaster for the future use of farm land in Oldham which you won’t see in the Labour leaders rose tinted grow some veg, plant a tree blog. The…
Greater Manchester Labour leaders want to introduce their own bedroom tax
Labour run Greater Manchester wants to introduce it’s own bedroom tax. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority wants to be the first UK region that charges a hotel “bed tax”. This would be a tax paid…