In her latest blog Oldham Council leader Jean Stretton states “delivering Oldham’s Cultural Quarter is a major priority for this administration – and we are making really good progress.” Blink and you will miss Oldham’s…
We are only a month away from Oldham council beginning the fifteen year destruction of the green fields and open spaces of Foxdenton, this is a council that regularly spins its self-imagined green credentials in…
As the UK starts the Brexit process Oldham Council is expanding its involvement in EU funded selective utopianism as it partners once again with Europe’s poorest, Romania and Bulgaria, plus Flevoland in the Netherlands and…
Oldham Council have just commissioned an Oldham sports pitch report after advisement from sporting bodies. The report shows a football pitch shortfall which is ironic when the one in the picture, next to the South…
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…
Greater Manchester Police are too constrained by political correctness to be direct about Oldham crime facts so we will say it for them, there is an Eastern European crime and ASB epidemic in Oldham. The…
We have all heard about the funding crisis in social care and it s a very real issue but once again in Oldham both the council and the press have failed to address the statistical…
6845 asylum seekers were resident in Greater Manchester in the last quarter of 2016 with 693 in Oldham. Greater Manchester’s current share of UK asylum seekers is more than the number in Scotland, Wales and…
Oldham Council leader Jean Stretton has been schooled in the Jim McMahon practice of presenting facts devoid of economic context where partial truths paint the council in a good light and all sob stories can…
Revelations about the Clarksfield school at the centre of “Trojan Horse” accusations appears to be a case of religiously motivated cultural intimidation rather than an organised plot.I lived in Werneth for around eight years and…
This private business deal to find new use for an empty industrial building is a great example of how real business intelligence and foresight doesn’t have to cost the earth and stands in stark contrast…
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…