Kerb-crawling dad ‘humiliated family’
A 25-year-old Oldham man admitted picking up two known prostitutes within hours of them leaving the children’s home where they lived.
Police take burglars by Storm
POLICE targeted Greater Manchester burglars in a hard-hitting day of action.
Villagers get say on road tolls
Saddleworth villagers are being urged to attend a special additional road show on proposed public transport investments and congestion charge.
Good marks for Oldham mental health service
MENTAL health services for Oldham patients have been ranked as good.
Jury out on mental ward death
A YOUNG Oldham man died in a mental health seclusion room where he was being monitored, an inquest in Heywood heard yesterday.
Tory plans for NEETs
TORIES have promised to plough £100million into getting teenagers living a “Vicky Pollard”-lifestyle into work-based learning — including more than 700 in Oldham.
Villages to open up to affordable housing
IN a bid to stop villages dying, the Government has signalled that it will allow councils to push through developments of badly-needed homes.
New bid to end forced marriage
ANYONE coming into the UK to marry will now have to be 21 in the latest crackdown on forced marriage, the Government has announced.
Six weeks of motoring misery
ROADWORKS are set to cause massive tailbacks around one of Royton’s busiest junctions near Shaw Road End as work scheduled to take six weeks begin.
Workshop in anniversary Wonderland
Oldham Theatre Workshop falls down a rabbit hole into its fifth decade this week with a special 40th birthday production of classic story “Alice in Wonderland”.
Pupils’ garden is a show-stopper
CHILDREN across Oldham are celebrating after a garden they helped to create scooped a bronze medal at the prestigious Tatton Park flower show.
Former housing boss dies aged 69
A FORMER Chadderton and Oldham councillor who was chairman of the housing committee, Barrie Wright, has died aged 69.
£81,000 childrens’ woodland adventure
Around £81,000 is being used to help Oldham’s children make dens, climb trees and have adventures.
Best week of his life!
THEY say Oldhamers are a friendly bunch and two young local boys made such an impression on their holiday pal, that he is eager to track them down — from his home near Nelson.
Davies rubbishes shop packaging
OLDHAM’S Lib-Dem Euro-MP is calling on supermarkets to slash unnecessary packaging in a bid to reduce Britain’s huge waste mountain.
Store stays open as flooring firm looks for buyer
BRITAIN’S biggest wood and laminate flooring retailer has gone into administration — but its Oldham store remains open.
Mums united by drink-drive deaths
“LIFE is never the same again after a police officer knocks on your door and tells you that your son is dead.”
Hospice is going green
WORK is under way on a scheme to help Dr Kershaw’s Hospice go green.
Cafe’s healthy menu of food and advice
HEALTHY food and health information and advice will be offered at Failsworth’s first community cafe which opens officially on Monday.
Normandy trip shows pupils reality of war
A SCHOOL trip to Normandy was branded a huge success by the 188 Blue Coat School pupils who made the journey.
Jaw-dropping feats make this a winner
THE evening begins with a chap whose body is a whole lot bendier than it ought to be, and ends with a woman so jaw-droppingly contortable she could easily be a cut-and-shut job from two other people — with important structural bits left out.
E-ba-gum, don’t get yourself in a twist
ONE of the joys of the old BBC comedy series “Not the 9 o’clock News” was watching Pamela Stephenson take the mickey out of Angela Rippon.


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