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Flying Brick’s Monster challenge
ELECTION 2011
THE Flying Brick is his name — and politics is his game.
Shouting messages through...
Date Online: 21/12/2010
Election 2011
COUNCIL chiefs have released details of the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election and how to register to vote....
Date Online: 20/12/2010
The English Democrats have announced that Stephen Morris, the party’s North-West chairman, is their candidate for the Oldham East and...
Date Online: 20/12/2010
CHAIRMAN of the Conservative Party, Baroness Warsi, joined the party’s Oldham East and Saddleworth candidate Kashif Ali in signing a...
Date Online: 20/12/2010
The Liberal Democrats have claimed the Tories have no chance of winning the forthcoming Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election.
Business...
Date Online: 20/12/2010
A SADDLEWORTH campaigner has questioned whether Oldham Council will be able to organise the by-election for January 13.
Labour were...
Date Online: 20/12/2010
Parties urged to put differences aside
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010
WITH the future of Oldham Council hanging in the balance party...
Date Online: 10/05/2010
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010
FORMER Oldham mayor John Battye is back in the council chamber after storming to victory in Failsworth...
Date Online: 10/05/2010
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010
“IT’S great to be back,” said a triumphant Labour group leader Jim McMahon who saw gains in...
Date Online: 10/05/2010
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010
“THAT’S just the way the cookie crumbles” — the words of Lib-Dem leader Howard Sykes (right) after...
Date Online: 10/05/2010
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010
OLDHAM’S Tory group leader Jack Hulme was left reeling after his party lost the only seat it...
Date Online: 10/05/2010
Local ELECTIONS 2010
A DEVASTATING blow was served to the Liberal Democrats when former cabinet member for regeneration Mohib Uddin...
Date Online: 10/05/2010
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010
YASMIN Toor made political history when she became Oldham’s first female Asian Muslim to win a place...
Date Online: 10/05/2010
ELECTION 2010
Labour Minister Phil Woolas is facing life in a hung Parliament today after pipping his nearest rival by...
Date Online: 10/05/2010
Local voters were in tune with the nation as they delivered a hung council in...
Date Online: 07/05/2010
RICHARD HOOTON, KAREN DOHERTY, JANICE BARKER & MIKE ATTENBOROUGH
ELECTION 2010
Voters deliver a hung parliament
Woolas survives after night...
Date Online: 07/05/2010
Woolas wins after nail-biting night
THEY may only have been 103 votes — but still managed to secure the political...
Date Online: 07/05/2010
RICHARD HOOTON, KAREN DOHERTY, JANICE BARKER & MIKE ATTENBOROUGH
ELECTION 2010
MICHAEL Meacher secured an 11th election victory with only...
Date Online: 07/05/2010
ELECTION 2010
LABOUR’S David Heyes made it three in a row as he swept to victory in Ashton-under-Lyne.
But he...
Date Online: 07/05/2010
ELECTION 2010
Veteran campaigner Jeremy Sutcliffe ended a 40-year record of campaigning without a scratch when he was bitten by...
Date Online: 07/05/2010
ELECTION 2010
Mystery surrounded the UKIP candidate in Oldham West and Royton.
Helen Roberts from West Wirral didn’t appear on...
Date Online: 07/05/2010
ELECTION 2010
TORY candidate Kamran Ghafoor has complained that a Labour leaflet from Michael Meacher described him as a former...
Date Online: 07/05/2010
LATEST: 11am: Phil Woolas squeaks home by 103 votes in Oldham East and Saddleworth.
Michael Meacher won Oldham West and Royton...
Date Online: 06/05/2010
ELECTION 2010
Future in your hands as double voting begins
VOTERS in Oldham flocked to polling booths today for what’s...
Date Online: 06/05/2010
ELECTION 2010
Police are investigating criminal damage at the offices of a Labour candidate for tonight’s local elections.
Aqeel Ali...
Date Online: 06/05/2010
ELECTION 2010
LABOUR’S David Hibbert has had his knuckles rapped for using a council computer for electioneering.
He breached members’...
Date Online: 06/05/2010
ELECTION 2010
Rival parliamentary candidates have squared up over the bungled Vance Miller case.
Michael Meacher, Labour candidate for the...
Date Online: 05/05/2010
TONY Blair returned to campaigning in Oldham in a bid to give Labour an election boost.
The former prime minister...
Date Online: 05/05/2010
ELECTION 2010
Allegations of postal vote fraud in Oldham are being investigated.
Greater Manchester Police says the force has received...
Date Online: 05/05/2010
The Lib-Dems have been pushed back into third place while Labour lead the polls across the North-West — according to...
Date Online: 05/05/2010
