Nasim Ashraf a member of the Oldham interfaith forum which receives funding from Oldham Labour Council (£18,000 this year) is behind the protest group complaining about same sex education in Oldham schools according to The…
Non-residential burglary in Oldham grows by 49% in the year to December 2018, residential burglary by 33%, possession of weapons by 31% and stalking by 29%. Labour Oldham’s place based integration teams are clearly failing…
Nothing quite shows how Oldham Labour council has been struggling with budget cuts and austerity better than their list of consultants paid between £400 and £800 a day. Minimum wage in the UK pays just…
Local election time facts: For 2019/2020 Labour Oldham have introduced the joint 2nd highest adult social care charge in the country to what is already one of the UK’s highest council tax bills. Oldhamers pay…
I can’t believe that twice in a single week, including North West Tonight last night, we have had religious loons in Oldham talking on the BBC about the possibility of fresh riots in Oldham over…
Todays quarterly National Insurance allocation figures show that the number of adult migrants moving to Oldham in the first 9 months of 2018 is at the same level as it was in 2017 with 29%…
Not often we get to quote the Lib Dems website but they have published the answer to an FOI they submitted which shows the regeneration of Royton town centre has already had it’s budget increased…
Another of Jim McMahon’s regeneration projects bites the dust as plans for the new £27m Coliseum theatre in Oldham are scrapped by Oldham council. That makes his list of delivered town centre schemes (1) the…
Now confirmed as we reported even before the by-election was announced Labour Oldham will be adding Councillor Paul Jacques wife to the Failsworth clique in control of Oldham Council which currently stands at former council…
Oldham Council has stated that a by-election is to be held in the Failsworth East ward after Cherryl Brock, who has served the ward since 2016, gave notice of her intention to stand down this…
In its latest round of capital spending changes Oldham Council has once again moved spending on its “gamechanging” “flagship” and wishful thinking regeneration projects forward in time. £9.5 million of spending for Prince’s Gate has…
First Choice Homes Oldham is demolishing 247 rental properties at two high-rise blocks in Coldhurst namely Crossbank House and Summervale House, Oldham’s largest social housing provider will then build 100 new family homes. Like most…
Oldham MP Debbie Abrahams has signed a pledge not to report illegal immigrants to the home office who attend her constituency office. She shared the link on social media for those who think this is…
Extra funding for the council to combat housing benefit fraud in the self-employment sector which has seen rapid growth since 2011. Oldham is to receive the second highest rate of new government funding in Greater…
Local MP Debbie Abrahams Twitter account has endless tweets about the benefits system and failures as a consequence of the Governments ill thought out universal credit system. What she most definitely is not obsessed with…