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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
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
Sometimes the truth needs to be pursued, even when doing so comes at personal and professional cost.
Date Published 09/01/2026
Two local councillors, with the help of volunteers, are closing in on restoring all the traditional metal milestones across Saddleworth.
Date Published 02/01/2026
Oldham Council has been slammed over ‘bleak and shameful’ deprivation statistics that show conditions in the borough are worsening.
Date Published 30/12/2025
A watchdog has voiced ‘serious concerns’ about the management of social housing in Oldham.
Date Published 26/11/2025
A councillor duo in Oldham have returned to the local Conservative group just seven months after quitting the party.
Date Published 19/11/2025
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
An Oldham councillor who received ‘online threats to her life’ broke into tears during a council meeting while explaining how her family was left ‘scared and horrified’.
Oldham Council will be spending almost an additional £7m on its town centre regeneration project, reports have revealed.
Date Published 07/11/2025
A finance boss in Oldham has been slammed for ‘repeated no-shows’ at key meetings as the council faces difficulties with its finances.
Date Published 24/10/2025
A report has revealed ‘embarrassing mismanagement’ which led to Oldham councillors being overpaid by more than £100,000.
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
Oldham Council won’t be holding its traditional bonfire event for the second year in a row, a spokesperson has confirmed.
Oldham Council has overpaid its councillors by a total of £110,000, a newly-published report has confirmed.
Date Published 15/10/2025
Oldham Council has been slammed for ‘disrespecting working people’ after organising a six-hour council meeting that starts during the working day.
Date Published 01/10/2025
Victims of child sex abuse from Oldham say they’re being ‘ignored’ by Oldham council and the government over promises for an inquiry into grooming gangs.
Date Published 24/09/2025
Oldham council has delayed a report on how much councillors have been overpaid, after it emerged in July that their allowances had been miscalculated for the past three years.
Date Published 18/09/2025
A group of councillors in Oldham is calling for free school travel for children who are ‘falling through the cracks’ of the housing system.
Date Published 13/09/2025
Reform UK has welcomed three councillors on Oldham Council, creating the party’s first official group on the authority.
Date Published 11/09/2025
Hannah was already finding it hard to cope.
Date Published 21/08/2025
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
Councillors in Oldham are calling for more details after it emerged some had been ‘overpaid’ for three years due to an administrative error.
Date Published 09/08/2025
Plans for a new Greater Manchester police station have been slammed as ‘poor and impractical’ after it emerged the new site may have no holding cells.
Date Published 22/07/2025
An ‘administrative error’ at the council has left locals in Oldham fuming.
Date Published 21/07/2025
