The burden of EU mass migration has fallen unequally upon the UK as EU figures reveal a migrant worker increase more than twice that in any other EU country. The EU and in particular Eastern…
Oldham crime figures, top ten crimes which had the largest increase in the rolling year to December 2016. Public order offences up 48%, possession of weapons offences up 30%, theft from person up 29%, robbery…
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…
It is the first truly sunny day of the year more people are out and about and Labour Oldham start their election campaign in Oldham town centre. The High St where the photographs below are…
There are thirty four MSOA areas in Oldham yet just one of these MSOA’s has 7% of all Oldham Employment & Support Allowance claims and it just happens to be in ESA cuts champion Debbie…
The Manchester Evening News ran a story about GP’s under pressure on the 28/01/2017, although the figures showed reductions in full time doctors in Oldham we found that the patient figures showing a 6,296 increase…
Charity, independent age, has published its findings on care home quality in an article entitled “Best and worst areas for care home quality in England revealed in new research” They identified Oldham as the sixth…
Today’s International immigration and the labour market, UK: 2016 report shows that one in four Romanian & Bulgarian migrants in the UK are self-employed, that is over 56% higher than non-EU migrants who make up…
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…
In her latest blog Oldham Council leader Jean Stretton states “delivering Oldham’s Cultural Quarter is a major priority for this administration – and we are making really good progress.” Blink and you will miss Oldham’s…
We are only a month away from Oldham council beginning the fifteen year destruction of the green fields and open spaces of Foxdenton, this is a council that regularly spins its self-imagined green credentials in…
As the UK starts the Brexit process Oldham Council is expanding its involvement in EU funded selective utopianism as it partners once again with Europe’s poorest, Romania and Bulgaria, plus Flevoland in the Netherlands and…