The Greater Manchester Combined Authority has decided it will be dropping “Environment and Resource Efficiency” from its ESIF ERDF plans. Considering the authority will soon be taking over Greater Manchester planning and house building control…
This week the Office for National Statistics released figures showing Romania had the highest poverty levels in the EU in 2014 this comes hot on the heels of the ONS Towns and Cities analysis in…
Judging by the Labour Oldham electioneering leaflet for Susan Dearden in the Chadderton Central ward in the recent local election’s we can only concur that the myth of the monkey and the red rose is…
Remember Oldham Labour politician Jim McMahon lauding his business savvy and telling everyone how he brought MONO Pumps to Chadderton in 2013 albeit with a £3 million grant from AGMA, remember all the spin at…
Those governors of the most deprived borough in England, Oldham Council, are yet again using “not in the public interest” as an excuse to cover up their squandering of public sector monies on years of…
Todays Towns & Cities release by the office for national statistics singles out central Oldham as the most deprived area with 60% of central Oldham areas in the 20% most deprived areas in England. With…
Prince’s Gate is just one in a long line of expensive developments pushed through under Jim McMahon’s tenure as Council leader which he and his cohorts have labeled “game changer”. After nearly five years in…
After six years of squandering public money on the development of a Greater Manchester smart ticketing system which they failed to deliver ATOS have received a financial settlement from Transport for Greater Manchester. The incompetent…
1850 adult foreign nationals entering the UK in 2015 registered for new national insurance numbers from Oldham addresses a 22.7% increase on 2014 and the highest figure on record which started in 2002, 38% of…
It wasn’t enough for budget challenged Oldham Council to spend circa half a million of public funds purchasing a three quarters empty Metropolitan Place in Oldham Town Centre last September. They also went on to…
Hansen Group UK move from Greengate Industrial Park in Chadderton to Sandbrook Business Park Rochdale “for its excellent facilities, lower accommodation costs and convenient location at the end of the A627(M) COO Tomas Anderson said:…
The UK trade in goods deficit in 2015 was an all time record £125 billion, this deficit shows how much more was spent importing goods to the UK than was paid for goods exported from…
Unreported in the recent Oldham Chronicle article on an updated delivery schedule for Princes Gate was that in the same documents cash strapped Oldham Council, who are increasing Council Tax by almost 4%, has stated…
As we predicted and despite considerable building improvement grant spending by Oldham Council, the new greeting card shop “Card and Party” on Oldham’s independent quarter appears to have closed within a year of opening. On…
Police were in attendance on George St in Oldham Town centre early on Monday morning after three adjoining businesses, Mobiles 4 u, occasions Florist and Asiana were burgled. Police were also seen inspecting parking meters…