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Vital funding for NHS staff and volunteers is growing as fast as the moustaches of men across the UK, as a Surgical Doctor in Greater Manchester and friends kickstart a new...
Date Published 18/04/2020
Ambitious plans designed to maintain adult education, skills and employment programmes worth £200m across Greater Manchester during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak have been...
Oldham MP Jim McMahon has been urging the government and the Department for Education specifically to re-write the way the current free school meals voucher system works.
Date Published 17/04/2020
Oldham Rugby League Club have confirmed that their assistant coach Brendan Sheridan is now out of intensive care after battling coronavirus in hospital for the past two weeks.
Greater Manchester Police have so far caught over 6,200 drivers breaking the speed limit since the start of lockdown on Monday, March 23.
Waste bosses are reviewing whether to reopen the region’s tips more than three weeks after they were shut over concerns about social distancing.
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham today led calls for businesses to urgently apply for a share of the £629m coronavirus grant funding available from Local Authorities in the...
Barrowthon Man, AKA Oldham Greater Manchester Police Constable Damieon Hartley-Pickles, raised a phenomenal £1,500 for Mahdlo and the NHS this week.
A former Oldham nightclub which was once a mainstay of the town’s nightlife is to become a shared house for up to 25 people.
Less than three weeks since work first started, NHS Nightingale Hospital North West officially opens today in central Manchester, to provide care for hundreds of patients with...
The University of Salford will help to bring forward the ‘Eden of the North’ after it was named as a partner on the ambitious Oldham-based project.
Mecca Oldham has today announced that it has teamed up with online parking marketplace, YourParkingSpace, to offer free car parking spaces to the town's NHS workers.
No-one knows how long society will be battling Coronavirus, or how it will look once the crisis is over.
A film maker turned author has pledged to donate a chunk of the profits from his brand new book, ‘Butcher Boy’, to Dr Kershaw’s Hospice.
Tip closures and a surge in home renovation projects have seen people across Greater Manchester flout lockdown rules to dump rubbish on our streets.
A delivery of personal protective equipment (PPE) arrived two days late and only contained a tenth of the masks and aprons authorities expected.
A school community is in deep shock after the tragic death of Barrie Ashley, described as a man “with a heart of gold.”
Councillor Howard Sykes MBE, Liberal Democrat and Opposition Leader Oldham Council, is concerned over the worrying slump in school performance in Oldham Borough.
Paul Barnes, Facilities Officer at Dr Kershaw’s Hospice and a part-time poet, has created a special Coronavirus poem to help rally the nation and show support for the NHS during...
Kind-hearted Rose Knipe and her colleagues at Tesco in Failsworth dropped off bags full of groceries to the hard-working key workers at the Royal Oldham Hospital.
Date Published 16/04/2020
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has said that there has been a significant increase in the number of businesses expressing concern about the effect of Covid-19 on their...
Greater Manchester Police officers have done their best to enforce new coronavirus legislation and tackle serious organised crime while being subjected to ‘shocking’ attacks, the...
Community testing for all care home staff and residents has started in Oldham as the borough becomes one of the first to roll out Covid-19 testing in such facilities.
Detectives have released images of three men they would like to speak to in connection with an assault at a restaurant in Openshaw.
The newly-formed Greater Manchester Sight Loss Council, which raises awareness of the issues faced by blind and partially sighted people, is looking for enthusiastic visually...
A Canada goose was caught up in the aftermath of an attempted diesel theft in Ashton.
Warm-hearted Kad Sharif is continuing to do his bit to help Oldhamers get the better of the dreaded Coronavirus outbreak.
Thirteen-year-old Newman College student Matthew Senior has ADHD.
Shaun Wane has confirmed the appointment of Andy Last and Paul Wellens to his England Rugby League coaching staff.
Oldham West and Royton MP Jim McMahon has been urging government and suppliers to do all they can to make sure that those on the ‘new frontline’ in the fight against Coronavirus...
