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Lockdown has affected us all in different ways.
Date Published 21/05/2021
School children across Oldham are being urged to pen a short poem about hunger and what it means to them, as part of a national competition run by anti-poverty charity the...
Local community group, Outta Skool, is celebrating after being awarded almost £320,000 in National Lottery funding to support its work with adults and children in helping reduce...
This week's Dr Kershaw's winners have been announced (May 21).
Earlier this week retired Police Dog Mojo passed away, following a long and distinguished career at the British Transport Police and three happy years of retirement.
A brand-new short movie shot in Oldham, starring a young Chadderton woman and featuring a local GP, has premiered before a gathering of over 200 top doctors – and earned a clean...
Dementia Friends Champion, Debbie Abrahams, the MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, has joined a local 'Singing for the Brain' session, to mark Dementia Action Week.
Rochdale is to ramp up vaccination programme over the weekend in a bid to increase take-up and halt the spread of the virus.
Jackson, Jackson and Sons Ltd have sponsored the newly-launched Dr Kershaw's virtual event - the ‘Virtual Hospice Walk’ - and their team have signed up to take part in a bid to...
Oldham Council has unveiled a new Cabinet line-up to take the borough forward in 2021/22.
People are invited to an online event to hear how Greater Manchester has played a key part in the groundbreaking research which has turned the tide on COVID-19.
Date Published 20/05/2021
Oldham Council has successfully bid for £10.7 million to boost the ongoing regeneration of Oldham town centre.
Date Published 19/05/2021
Councillor Jenny Harrison has been officially confirmed as the new Mayor of Oldham at annual council.
Outgoing Mayor Councillor Ginny Alexander said today was “a very sad and emotional day”, speaking as the former Mayor of Oldham.
Home-Start HOST, which supports families across Oldham, Stockport, Tameside and Bolton, is set to launch a new project that will be helping around 30 families per year, with...
Figures released today (Wednesday) reveal that Oldham now has the lowest seven-day Covid-19 infection rate across Greater Manchester – numbers which are also lower than the...
A new service has launched in Oldham to make sure school children with low-level emotional and behavioural difficulties receive the right help, at the right time, in the right...
The famous Don Bradman 'bowled out for a duck' cricket ball trophy, which was presented to teenage Lancashire CCC bowler Malcolm Hilton by his former club Werneth, goes up for...
Now that we are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding the effects of Covid-19, Oldham National Education chiefs reckon it's time to start looking at how...
Shaw Liberal Democrat Councillors were delighted to hear that their campaign for a bus shelter on Eastway has finally paid off.
Lifelong Latics fanatic Andrew Mellor is now the proud owner of the penalty kick that became one of the most important goals in the club’s history, after it was brilliantly...
Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has announced ambitions for the city-region to become one of the first in the world to equip all under-25s, over-75s and disabled people...
A young woman who loves nothing more than a trip out on the water will be taking on the biggest endurance challenge of her life next month.
Date Published 18/05/2021
Local Oldham schools from The Harmony Trust (Greenhill, Northmoor, Richmond, Alt, and Westwood Academies) have all recently taken part in a fantastic “Digital Lift-Off” to...
With 2021 set to be the year of the staycation, there couldn’t be a better time to explore Greater Manchester with our dogs.
The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has released a list of postcode areas that it believes to be the worst affected by ‘crash for cash’ insurance scams, and OL8 is ranked at number...
Date Published 17/05/2021
On Saturday (May 22), Manchester will mark four years since the terrorist attack in which 22 people were killed after an Ariana Grande concert.
Three warm-hearted local youngsters have raised more than £1,000 for the Madina Institute and Masjid Community Hub and its associated Youth Zone.
Are you heading to the pub or restaurant today, on the first day many Oldham outlets will, at long last, be able to welcome customers inside their premises once again?
Waterhead Academy has been shortlisted for the Community and Collaboration prize in the prestigious TES Schools Awards 2021.
