The nodding dogs at Labour have had their instructions and deselected loyal Labour Oldham Councillor Stephen Hewitt for next year’s local elections. We are sure its got nothing to do with him leading the opposition…
Romania rose up the rankings and replaced Poland as the second most common country of birth for foreign-born fathers and the third for non-UK-born mothers in the UK in 2018 just 4 years after being…
In his relentless hunt for votes Oldham Council leader Sean Fielding recently said he would like to help Ferranti at Greenacres move into green technologies rather than military contract work despite Ferranti never asking for…
Ironic at a time when the public are sick to death of out of touch politicians Labour Oldham who cut the entire £45,000 annual funding for the dial a ride service will be wasting £48,000…
Less than two weeks ago, after refusing our freedom of information request, we pointed out that Oldham Council refusing to disclose the cost of theft from Oldham parks after the recent £60,000 theft at Alexandra…
It didn’t take Oldham Labour Council long to refuse our freedom of information request regarding thefts from Oldham parks in light of the recent £60,000 theft from Alexandra park which has gone largely unreported and…
Today’s government release of tax credit figures for 2017 – 2018 shows that only Hackney and Tower Hamlets pay out an higher average amount of tax credit benefits than Oldham and 3 Greater Manchester areas…
Labour Oldham have cancelled library fines the decision “was made to encourage more people to use the 12 libraries across the borough and increase literacy levels among young people.” The Council’s press release just casually…
Labour Oldham leader Sean Fielding telling everyone on Twitter (he hasn’t blocked) what a wonderful councillor he is when what it really shows is his nimby attitude to his own ward something he and his…
More evidence of the impact of recent high fertility immigration on both the benefit system and early years provision. Government tax credit figures show that in the 2 years between August 2014 and August 2016…
Oldham Council leader Sean Fielding was once again ignoring the facts at tonight’s council meeting discussing the impact of town centre regeneration. He told members that the Old Town Hall development has generated over 100…
Interesting facts from the 2009 to 2017 ONS figures for employment and population growth released today that you will not be reading in the sanitised local press. Chadderton has seen Population growth of 4.9% and…
Tucked away in the back of the recently published Oldham Council housing needs document they finally admit that immigration is now the main cause of population growth in Oldham. This is just part of the…
Cash strapped austerity challenged Oldham Labour Council is advertising a six month vacancy for an enterprise architect salary £13,000 a month. Cash strapped austerity challenged Oldham Labour Council is advertising a seven month vacancy for…
Here’s our graph with the updated ONS mid 2018 population estimates released yesterday. There has been no population density increase in Scotland population up by just 13,300, no population density increase in Wales population up…