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…
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…
It is in stark contrast to incessant media ostracisation of the aged for not having the good manners to die before they become a perceived burden on society that official pension figures show the number…
Oldham council has a policy of funding every scheme that fails to attract investment or loses investment partners with money from public finances and the bottomless prudential loan pit rather than abandoning ill-considered schemes with…
Labour Oldham MP Jim McMahon’s crowdfunding appeal to raise £8,000 for a statue of suffragette Annie Kenney outside the old town hall cinema is little more than a contrived publicity stunt aimed at promoting the…
Oldham Council’s expensive albatross around its neck Hotel Future now appears defunct and we appear to have a new “Hotel Oldham” scheme. With commercial sensitivity no longer being an issue it is time then for…
Chronic-Oldham is primarily about local issues so we are not going to elaborate on why we think Donald Trump’s decision on travel restrictions is born out of ignorance and is ultimately self-defeating. We will however…
Remember bin collection’s being cut in 2016? Remember plans announced to close The Link Centre on Union Street? Remember the opening of Oldham Council’s Old Town Hall Cinema? We can only guess what the entire…
Oldham Council has just published its latest budget realignment proposals (rob Peter to pay Paul to keep the account’s looking on track). Nice to see the budget challenged, austerity suffering council juggling £8.6 million of…
The asylum statistics you will never see in the Oldham Chronicle or on the Oldham Council website. In the third quarter of 2016 337 (89.2%) of 378 UK local authorites housed between 0 and 10…
After M&S pulls out of his “gamechanger” deal, Prince’s Gate now joins Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Minister for Local Government & Devolution, Oldham MP Jim McMahon’s costly regeneration failure list. On the list we also have “Our…
Oldham Council promote a culture of noncontribution
Oldham Council has consented for “alternative uses to be permitted at Ascroft Court, Ascroft Street / Peter Street, Oldham” As per usual the Council is unwilling to disclose any details citing commercial sensitivity and private…
Sure most of you are aware of the Jim McMahon & Oldham Chronicle mutual appreciation society but now another disconnected narcissist, Prince Andrew, has joined resident narcissist McMahon, we genuinely view him as such, and…