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An ‘abandoned’ medical centre that shut down ‘without warning’ in 2021 is being put up for auction.
Date Published 02/01/2026
Two local councillors, with the help of volunteers, are closing in on restoring all the traditional metal milestones across Saddleworth.
The Chatty Café Scheme, UK’s leading non-profit social enterprise designed to tackle loneliness, set up by Oldham mum Alex Hoskyn (42), has reached a major milestone having helped...
Oldham Mountain Rescue Team were called out on Saturday evening to assist a walker who had sustained a lower leg injury near Yeoman Hey Reservoir in Saddleworth.
A First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO) customer who helps organise affordable food for those in need was voted the housing association’s December Hidden Hero.
A private mental health unit where patients were given out of date medication and a distressed woman was told by staff to ‘stop crying’ has been ordered to improve.
Photographer Karen Jakeman set out on what should have been a beautiful 7.5 km circular walk up to a treasured local beauty spot, Hartshead Pike, near Mossley.
A junction with a public bin in Oldham has become a ‘magnet for fly-tipping’ creating a ‘disgusting’ eyesore, according to locals.
Date Published 30/12/2025
Hopwood Hall College Principal and CEO, Julia Heap, has been awarded an OBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours List.
Oldham Council has been slammed over ‘bleak and shameful’ deprivation statistics that show conditions in the borough are worsening.
A homeowner has been ordered to remove a whole set of UPVC windows and a front door after the council deemed it ‘harmful’ to an historic building in Saddleworth.
Oldham is changing, as major developments across the Greater Manchester borough are making progress.
Hulme Grammar School and its specialist innovation hub, the Brenda Mills Institute of Innovation and Technology (BMIIT), successfully hosted a high-energy 12-hour hackathon.
Date Published 24/12/2025
A kids’ home in Oldham has been praised for allowing youngsters in care to ‘flourish and thrive’ after an inspection by a government watchdog.
People who might have been alone on Christmas Day were able to enjoy turkey and all the trimmings at First Choice Homes Oldham’s (FCHO) Tensing Street Community Centre.
Oldham Parish Church was alive with the sound of music as the Dr Kershaw’s annual Christmas concert got people in the festive spirit.
Oldham is due to get its first set of padel courts after plans to convert a former warehouse into a sportshall were approved.
Date Published 22/12/2025
Community champion Christopher Bannatyne was determined not to be defeated by the callous vandals who initially wrecked his hand-built Christmas tree for children in Delph.
Oldham council has officially confirmed its bin collection schedule for the 2025 Christmas and New Year period.
This Christmas Day, Jason (The Eatery) and Kris (Billingtons Oldham) are opening their doors - and their hearts - to those who would otherwise spend the day alone.
All kids living at a children’s home in Oldham have been moved elsewhere after a government watchdog slammed the unsafe care they were receiving.
Thirty Mountain Rescue Team members from Oldham and Holme Valley were involved for four hours after being called out to assist two walkers in the Dovestones area after one had...
A family is waiting in the sparsely furnished but festively decked reception hall of a hotel.
It’s well into the Panto season – but the doors of the Oldham Coliseum remain firmly shut.
Two local people have been convicted of the manslaughter of a man following a brutal assault in 2023.
After nearly two decades on the football pitch with stints at clubs such as Latics, Celtic, Wigan and Doncaster, Dan Gardner has stepped into a very different team environment.
Date Published 17/12/2025
A flock of tiny, hand-crafted Christmas angels are ready to take flight, spreading happiness in a Saddleworth village.
An awards ceremony designed to celebrate our borough’s diverse community has had an added bonus - by raising £335 for kids in hospital.
First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO) has condemned vandals who broke into Holts Community Centre and set fire to an outbuilding in a crime spree that has caused £10,000 worth of...
Greater Manchester Police's Serious Collision Investigation Unit (SCIU) are appealing for information following a fatal collision at around 6.50pm on Thursday night on Greenfield...
