Oldham Reporter

Officers in Oldham have arrested three more people in connection with a firearms discharge in Glodwick.

Officers in Oldham have arrested a 28-year-old man following a shooting which damaged a chip shop window.

Oldham Council has issued an update after members of the public raised concerns about disabled bays being relocated to a "steep and windy hill".

Artists and activists have celebrated a milestone in the Save the Oldham Coliseum campaign. 

An Oldham school has lost its ‘good’ Ofsted rating due to its pupils’ "derogatory and homophobic" language – less than 12 months after two students were suspended for performing Nazi salutes and using racist slurs. 

GMP detectives have successfully convicted a group of young men for their assault on a shop worker at a garage on Wellington Road South in Stockport.

It’s just over a week until residents of Oldham will be called to the polling stations to choose a candidate to represent them at council. But where will you be voting? 

The decision to close a town’s only community preschool would leave working parents in a “difficult position”, a number of “devastated” families say.

GMP have now adopted the online portal and form for the Herbert Protocol.

Officers are appealing for information following reports of an attempted robbery after an incident on a tram in Shaw.

A bungling drug dealer has been jailed for three years after he called police from the mobile phone he had been using to set up deals. 

Plans to build a temporary ‘bubble-like’ theatre venue for the Oldham Coliseum group could pose problems for disabled parking, residents say.

Volunteers at the Millgate Arts Centre in Delph are mourning the loss of their oldest and longest standing supporter Ken Wright MBE who died recently, aged 93. 

A brand new St George’s Day flag flies proudly over a community’s parish church… thanks to the kindness  of unsung locals.

A dedicated Saddleworth brass band took their talents to new heights when they completed a groundbreaking charity walk 3,560 ft to the top of Mount Snowdon.

A popular family event which captured a community’s hearts is to steam into town again this year.

An Oldham secondary school headteacher has said he has “absolute confidence his school is headed in the right direction” despite a ‘Requires Improvement’ rating from Ofsted inspectors.

Plans for hundreds of new energy efficient houses, including some affordable homes, have been approved in Derker, in Oldham, in a disused part of the town.

A taxi rank in Oldham will be shut down as ‘major works’ take place in the town centre, the council announced this week.

Despite tough mixed weather, Diggle’s popular Scarecrow Trail raised a staggering £4,300 for children at Diggle School.

Dog owners and walkers are being asked to keep pets on short leads until July 31 to protect ground nesting birds.

Greater Manchester residents will head to the polls in a fortnight — to not only decide who should run their councils, but also to select a mayor.

Oldham Council fined parents thousands of pounds for their kids’ "unauthorised absences" from school in the last academic year, despite some headteachers calling it a "blunt instrument" to deal with absent pupils.  

A Lib Dem councillor in Oldham has lodged a complaint about a parish council’s majority party amid a row over a newsletter ahead of the local elections.

No trams will run from Oldham to Rochdale Town Centre all day on Sunday, April 21, the Bee Network has announced.

The newly-created Saddleworth Women’s Morris and Clog side are to make a their debut appearance on Saturday, April 27.

Saddleworth Round Table and 41 Club have presented a commemorative plaque at Saddleworth Museum to Roger Tanner MBE, a highly respected community benefactor.

Beverley Wood and her two teens have spent the last week in a caravan. But it’s no Easter getaway – just a temporary escape from the “absolute terror” of their rodent-infested home in Oldham.

A developer is turning a home in Oldham into a ‘controversial’ House of Multiple Occupancy (HMO), despite opposition from local residents.

A fly-tipping hotspot in Saddleworth was hit with one of its biggest piles of rubbish yet in what locals suspect was an ‘abandoned cannabis farm’.