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Labour has rejected calls from Oldham council for a government inquiry into historic child abuse.
Date Published 30/12/2024
A problem blighting dozens of communities across Greater Manchester is to be the subject of ‘decisive steps’ by the police.
Date Published 09/04/2024
Arooj Shah has a mountain to climb.
Date Published 20/01/2024
The big question on many people’s lips is – why would you want the job a second time around?
Date Published 16/05/2023
The election curse afflicting the borough’s leaders struck again last week, with Amanda Chadderton becoming the third Labour boss in three years to be unseated.
Date Published 10/05/2023
Former ousted leader Arooj Shah has staged a political comeback to return to head up Oldham council after winning an internal Labour contest.
Labour have narrowly kept overall control of Oldham council following a nail-biting election battle, but saw their third leader in three years ousted by an independent.
Date Published 06/05/2023
Oldham’s biggest election for nearly two decades in now upon us, and the mood on the streets appears to be one of political apathy and and mistrust.
Date Published 02/05/2023
More than 200 candidates are competing for residents’ votes in this years’ local elections in Oldham.
Date Published 05/04/2023
The appalling findings of a review into cases of child sexual exploitation in Oldham have been revealed for the first time this week.
Date Published 23/06/2022
Almost three years after being commissioned, a review into allegations of historic child sexual exploitation has found that children in Oldham were being exploited and let down by...
Date Published 20/06/2022
Major plans to redevelop a council-owned shopping centre to create a new market hall, offices and event space are to be decided this week.
Date Published 07/06/2022
Oldham council’s leader-elect has vowed to prove she is on residents’ side after Labour lost five seats -including her former boss – at the local elections.
Date Published 11/05/2022
Labour councillor Amanda Chadderton is to become the new leader of Oldham Council following her predecessors departure.
Date Published 10/05/2022
However, the big news of the night was that Oldham Council Leader Arooj Shah lost her Chadderton South seat, by 96 votes, to Conservative candidate Robert Barnes.
Date Published 06/05/2022
All the candidates who want your vote on May 5th
Date Published 07/04/2022
Part 1
Date Published 29/12/2021
Oldham’s first female chief executive is to leave her post after more than 12 years at the local authority.
Date Published 27/07/2021
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...
Date Published 26/07/2021
Oldham’s new council leader has pledged to clean up the borough and ‘listen more’ to local people in her first official speech in the top role.
Date Published 26/05/2021
Oldham Council has unveiled a new Cabinet line-up to take the borough forward in 2021/22.
Date Published 21/05/2021
For Arooj Shah, taking on the leadership of Oldham council feels like a historic moment.
Date Published 17/05/2021
New Oldham Council Leader Arooj Shah has re-affirmed her determination to deliver on her recent local election pledge to 'clean up' the Borough.
Date Published 14/05/2021
Oldham West and Royton MP Jim McMahon has welcomed the news that Councillor Arooj Shah has been elected as the new leader of Oldham’s Labour Group and therefore set to be...
Date Published 12/05/2021
Arooj Shah has been confirmed as the leader of the Labour group on Oldham Council. It means - as the largest party - that Cllr Shah will be confirmed as the new leader of the...
Date Published 10/05/2021
Cllr Arooj Shah has been elected as the new leader of Oldham’s Labour Group and is set to be confirmed as council leader.
Following Oldham’s dramatic election shock in the early hours – which saw council leader Sean Fielding lose his seat – the question of his successor looms large.
Angela Rayner has been sacked as Labour Party chair and national campaign co-ordinator by Sir Kier Starmer.
Date Published 08/05/2021
Labour’s stronghold in Oldham has been dealt a shattering blow after the incumbent council leader was defeated by a new independent party.
Date Published 07/05/2021
Here is the full list of candidates standing in the local elections on Thursday 6 May
Date Published 04/05/2021
