Oldham Labour Council have been debating a motion on adopting a modern slavery policy at their Council meeting on 28/03/2018. Now this would be admirable had it not been that one of their own Labour…
Schools census stats from January 2017 show minority ethnic pupils now make up 46.5% of primary school pupils in state-funded Oldham schools & 39.8% of pupils in state-funded Oldham secondary schools. According to Oldham Council’s…
We have all seen the report on the BBC about child poverty in Oldham which concentrated on tugging at the heart strings and chose to completely avoid an assessment of Oldham’s socioeconomic landscape or the…
Labour Oldham MP Jim McMahon is moaning about the latest employment figures for Oldham. This serial failure forgot to add that 3,130 minimum wage jobs he announced with a fanfare of press releases when serving…
In recent years the area around Foxdenton has been well and truly dumped on by Labour Oldham and the public sector enduring years of building work and loss of green space that is expected to…
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.
Updated 20/03/218 Oldham Council spending records for January 2018 show that they paid the company commissioned to re-brand The Oldham Coliseum theatre, Creative Concern Ltd, £28,268. 29/01/2018 Cash strapped Oldham Council has just agreed to pay…
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…
Suffragette champion MP Jim McMahon along with Council leader Jean Stretton and MP Debbie Abrahams never publicly spoke up for his assistant Arooj Shah after she was ousted as a St Mary’s councillor by Muslim…
One of the many anomalous statistics we have called out over the years was the fact that 56% more Romanian workers are self-employed than any other nationality group, see here for details. We also went…
Oldham Council has purchased the former Oldham magistrates court site opposite the Civic Centre with the intention of building housing. The site sits in the 024 area which along with neighbour 022 has received the…