Oldham’s Labour Council is spending £157,500 of prudential loan cash on resurface five Town Centre footpaths, which have been damaged by vehicular parking, with a stronger material rather than preventing parking on footways with bollards…
Under Jim McMahon’s tenure as Oldham Labour Council leader the average Oldham wage has slipped down to the 23rd lowest in all the UK as revealed by official figures released in April 2014. The Council…
In it’s latest press release Oldham Council is once again patting itself on the back stating that “Oldham sees 24 per cent fall in 16-18 year-old NEETs” The release ignores the wider issues which saw…
“Oldham Council has prosecuted a takeaway after poor standards of hygiene and a dangerous gas situation were discovered at the premises. During an inspection of Gold Star, on Union Street, in Oldham, on August 7,…
Questions are being asked about ex-police boss Cathy Butterworth pay after it was revealed that she recieved £900,000 pay & pension for three years work as head of training and development at GMP. Missing from…
Of the 211 Clinical Commissioning Group areas in England it has been revealed that life expectancy rates for both Oldham born males & females are some of the lowest in the Country with Males occupying…
2011 government data shows that the Rochdale & Oldham Travel-To-Work area had the 8th lowest job density ratio in the UK at just 0.59 the England average is 0.78. This means for every 10 economically…
Over 100 people turned up in monsoon like conditions at the Oldham Civic Centre planning meeting last night to show their disapproval of the plans to turn the currently undeveloped green areas of Foxdenton into…
Oldham’s South Asian Pakistani & Bangladeshi communities have been identified as potential fraudulent voting hotspots by the Electoral Commission. In the September 2013 fraud perception report Asian participants in Oldham & Tower Hamlets mentioned seeing:…
Oldham Council is seeking approval for the formation of a new Foxdenton Joint Venture partnership.
This is how undemocratic Oldham Labour Council responds to a Freedom of Information Request from Council Tax payers of Oldham concerned about the debt and financial risk to council budgets arising from Oldham Council acting…
There are currently (09/12/2013) 246 empty business premises with an OL9 Chadderton postcode including 17 industrial units at the Broadgate and Broadway Business Park(s) adjacent to the proposed huge Foxdenton Industrial Business Park planned for…
Statistics released today for 2012 show that the Oldham population had the lowest percentage levels of educational qualifications in Greater Manchester for People aged between 16 & 64 at every level from NVQ level 2…
The combined Oldham bill for Housing Benefit (social housing) & Local Housing Allowance (private rented sector) 2012/13 was over £38 million.
Oldham’s Westwood Primary School is one of only five in England where 100% of pupils do not speak English as a first language.