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Metro Mayors for Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region and West Midlands have joined forces to call for an extension of the Government’s successful Housing First pilot...
Date Published 31/07/2021
A shocked couple have lost their home to a devastating fire in a Saddleworth village blighted by major traffic problems.
Date Published 30/07/2021
The Eccles Metrolink line will remain closed beyond the weekend to allow for the completion of safety-critical engineering works.
Green Party activists have welcomed the £1.27m council investment to help clean up Oldham and Saddleworth.
This week's Dr Kershaw's winners have been announced (July 30).
Local Liberal Democrat Councillor Sam Al-Hamdani says he has received assurances that a review of the reporting of highways issues at Oldham Council will take place, after a...
Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams has joined cross party calls for the Government to set more meaningful targets for reducing the employment gap for disabled people.
Churchgoers at the Impact Church in Hollinwood have launched an appeal in a bid to finally raise enough money to buy a van which will allow them to continue their work with the...
Radio DJ legend and musician Mike Sweeney is staging an intimate preview of his 60’s Classics theatre show in an historic Saddleworth pub.
Date Published 29/07/2021
Three new Renew Shops across Greater Manchester have opened - including one in Oldham.
Greater Manchester councillors have warned that residents ‘will go mad’ if the government goes ahead with plans to force every home to have up to seven bins each.
The famous Saddleworth Morrismen legendary Rushcart Festival has been cancelled for the second time in two years.
Date Published 28/07/2021
Oldham Council has been praised for its dazzling floral meadows display in Grotton Park.
Two ‘challenging’ brownfield sites in Oldham are to be transformed with more than 400 homes after the town hall manage to win £6.5m government cash.
Up to 400 new homes are to be built on a huge industrial estate in Oldham after councillors approved ‘major’ plans which include the demolition of three 100-year-old mills.
Oldham West and Royton MP Jim McMahon has now received his second dose of the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and is encouraging all Oldhamers to do the same and grasp the...
Chadderton-based independent record store owner Colin White designed a trendy NHS 'MaNcHeSter' t-shirt, and ended up raising approximately £7,000 for worthy charities.
The full extent of the issues behind Greater Manchester Police’s ‘clunky’ £29m computer system might not yet be known, the deputy mayor of the city-region has warned.
Oldham Mountain Rescue Team paid back East Lancashire Masonic Charity by helping out on their charity walk North of Bury.
Hugely popular locally-based magician and illusionist Rob Bardsley is over the moon that his diary is beginning to fill up once again following the devastating Covid-19 pandemic.
Oldham Council has pledged to carry out a deep clean of every district in the borough over the coming months.
Hundreds attend celebration service on filling station forecourt
Date Published 27/07/2021
More than 330 school children across three schools in Oldham took part in a celebratory ‘booknic’ event organised by Elk Mill Shopping Park in partnership with the National...
Oldham's first tenants’ climate jury will host its inaugural session today (Tuesday).
A new radio revolution in Oldham was launched in spectacular style at Whittle’s at Tokyo’s on Friday (July 23).
Date Published 26/07/2021
We're not sure what Mike Tyson the ferocious former boxer would make of these giant sunflowers, but Mike Tyson the gardening fanatic from Failsworth has certainly produced a...
A Sunday afternoon brass band concert in a Saddleworth village really lived up to its name.
Ashton and Failsworth MP Angela Rayner has launched a five point plan to make Britain the ‘best place to work’ to combat the spiralling number of people suffering in-work poverty.
Failsworth West Labour Councillors Elaine Garry and Pete Davis were out on Propps Hall Drive last week sharing news that a traffic calming scheme was approaching the top of the...
Passengers are being encouraged to plan their journey today (Monday), as fewer trams are in operation across the network.
