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Coun Quigg said: “This isn’t just some paper tiger. This is the real deal. This is the change people wanted. This is the change people voted for.
Date Published 16/06/2026
A top boss is keeping the lights on at Oldham Council while councillors work out who is going to take over.
Date Published 31/05/2026
Oldham council is still locked in a chaotic battle over its next leader after nearly five hours of talks failed to break a stand-off.
Date Published 20/05/2026
Coun Arooj Shah said Labour ‘now have to respect what the electorate have said and have to step back’.
Date Published 19/05/2026
After gaining 13 councillors on May 7, Reform is now the second largest group in the borough
Date Published 13/05/2026
Council leader to step down, ending 15 years of Labour
Date Published 11/05/2026
Oldham has been in the national news again.
Date Published 03/05/2026
Oldham has long garnered a reputation for its ‘toxic politics’.
Date Published 27/04/2026
Residents will head to the polls on Thursday, May 7, to vote in new representatives for their areas across Oldham. A third of council positions are up for grabs in this election,...
Date Published 10/04/2026
The government has agreed in principle to a plan for Oldham’s historic market site to be turned into a new sixth form by elite boarding school Eton College and education trust...
Date Published 02/04/2026
Sometimes the truth needs to be pursued, even when doing so comes at personal and professional cost.
Date Published 09/01/2026
Construction can officially start on a major £32m project to transform an ‘underused car park’ into more than 300 new homes in Oldham.
Date Published 05/01/2026
Oldham Council has been slammed over ‘bleak and shameful’ deprivation statistics that show conditions in the borough are worsening.
Date Published 30/12/2025
An Eton-backed secondary school is coming to Oldham, the government has confirmed.
Date Published 11/12/2025
Following months of delays and disagreements, the national inquiry into grooming gangs is moving forward.
Date Published 10/12/2025
A local MP has branded years harassment and abuse directed at local politicians as ‘completely unacceptable’, describing it as ‘a sad example of politics torn by divisive
Date Published 14/11/2025
Oldham council are still waiting for news from the government after putting their local inquiry into historic child sexual exploitation ‘on hold’, the council leader has...
Date Published 12/11/2025
Oldham Council will be spending almost an additional £7m on its town centre regeneration project, reports have revealed.
Date Published 07/11/2025
A political group has been accused of giving a ‘misleading impression’ to the public amid claims a hospital could soon receive 40 desperately-needed new beds.
Date Published 03/11/2025
A local MP is calling for a justice centre to return to Oldham more than 10 years after its courts were shut down and later demolished.
Oldham council plans to spend £1m to buy and demolish a vacant building in the town centre to ‘improve sightlines’ to the Coliseum theatre.
Date Published 31/10/2025
An Oldham manufacturer has taken a major step into the digital age with a £300,000 investment that doubles capacity, creates skilled jobs, and strengthens the town’s position as a...
Date Published 22/10/2025
A project to build an Eton-linked school in Oldham town centre has come under fire as it continues to wait for a green light from government.
Oldham Council, one of Oldham’s biggest employers, has announced a ‘recruitment freeze’ as it grapples with a predicted £23m black hole in its finances.
Date Published 20/10/2025
A group of independent councillors in Oldham have joined forces with George Galloway’s The Workers Party ahead of the next local election.
Date Published 24/09/2025
Town hall bosses in Oldham are facing a possible £20m budget hole, a report has confirmed.
Date Published 23/09/2025
A council meeting in Oldham was aborted after a councillor was accused of using an ‘extremely offensive and sexually degrading’ word towards the town hall leader.
Date Published 18/09/2025
Reform UK has welcomed three councillors on Oldham Council, creating the party’s first official group on the authority.
Date Published 11/09/2025
Oldham Council’s leadership team has taken a tongue-lashing from several of its councillors over the decision to rename the newly-refurbished Old Library after a ‘local hero’.
Date Published 18/08/2025
A ‘desperately needed’ new police station in Oldham could be built.
Date Published 17/07/2025
