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The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is set to come to a close in October and Oldham West and Royton MP Jim McMahon has urged the government to rethink the decision and to extend...
Date Published 27/08/2020
Low-income workers who have to self-isolate in Oldham have been told they can claim up to £182 for their two week stay in isolation according to a Government announcement.
A ‘fully functioning’ national test and trace system will be essential to encouraging people back into their workplaces, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has said.
Date Published 26/08/2020
Andy Burnham has welcomed the government’s u-turn on wearing face masks in schools in parts of Greater Manchester under tighter lockdown restrictions
“New Conservative planning proposals will now make Labour’s old plans to build thousands of homes on Oldham’s Green Belt redundant”, says Liberal Democrat Leader, Councillor...
Nineteen members of the stalwart Oldham Mountain Rescue Team have evacuated a woman walker who fell near Dovestones at Greenfield.
A leading energy provider is investing £14m in Greater Manchester to support the wider city-region’s bid to be carbon neutral by 2038.
Date Published 25/08/2020
An Oldham man will appear in court next month charged with modern slavery and human trafficking offences.
BBC Children in Need has announced that it has awarded a new grant of £29,951 to a local project working with disadvantaged children and young people in Oldham.
Debbie Abrahams, MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, has co-launched a cross-party legal action to force the government to reveal details of multi-million pound contracts awarded...
Oldham West and Royton MP Jim McMahon has written to all major supermarkets with stores in the constituency urging them to do more to increase compliance with wearing face...
Little Henry Williams has received an accolade from the heroes of the hills for helping his father after he had fallen.
Oldham Community Leisure (OCL) have confirmed that, despite an increase in lockdown measures in the Oldham area, its leisure centres are permitted to remain open. Although the...
The government has issued advice to families and teachers ahead of all children going back to school in a few weeks.
Date Published 24/08/2020
“Your neighbour can build a two-story extension and there is nothing you can do about it,” claims Councillor Howard Sykes MBE.
An Oldham bar which only opened for business a year ago, has landed a top accolade from a drinker’s watchdog.
Two identical Lotto prizes worth £1,000,000, incredibly from the same area and for the same draw, have yet to be claimed from a ticket or tickets bought in Oldham.
Greater Manchester Police have reported that they had to break up another house party in Oldham on Friday night (21st August) just hours after the Government announced tighter...
Oldham Athletic’s Head Coach has declared himself pleased with his sides 2-0 friendly victory at Nottingham Forest on Saturday.
Community-spirited Janet Iles is turning people’s vivid and poignant memories of lockdown into a colourful mosaic of the Corona pandemic.
Despite adverse weather and the coronavirus, the redoubtable Saddleworth Morris Men maintained an historic tradition at the weekend.
Three police officers have been assaulted during two separate incidents in Greater Manchester over the course of the weekend.
Oldham’s resolute Mayor really ensured diamonds were forever when she sent three couples each celebrating 60 years married special congratulations.
Winger or full-back Tommy Brierley (23), a Leeds Rhinos product, has signed a one-year deal with Betfred Championship side Oldham after spells with York, Hunslet and home-town...
The Liberal Democrats are urging the Government to continue furlough support until it is safe and extend support to those who have so far been excluded by the Government.
Barlows and Clifford College based in Chadderton, Lancashire have been awarded the Princess Royal Training Award for the second year in succession. This prestigious award is...
Date Published 23/08/2020
Diabetes UK is looking for people from Oldham to get on their bikes and take on the UK Wide Cycle Ride this September.
Date Published 22/08/2020
Oldham’s MPs have been lining up to welcome the news that the town won’t be plunged into a Leicester-style local lockdown despite a rise in the number of new Coronavirus cases.
Date Published 21/08/2020
The Government have announced the new measures which will be brought into Oldham after the town escaped the threat of a Leicester-style local lockdown.
Manchester Airport have announced they’re going to close Terminal Two from the start of September with flights operating out of Terminal One and Three instead.
