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The families of Alison Howe and Lisa Lees are inviting the people of Royton to join them for a Picnic in the Park to pay tribute to their loved ones. This event will be taking place at Tandle Hill Country Park from 5pm onwards on Friday, June 23 following funerals earlier that day at St […] 
Almost 100,000 young people aged between 16 and 18 are set to benefit from half price bus tickets following a new offer agreed between the Mayor of Greater Manchester and bus operators. The deal will see the cost of a day ticket for young people cut in half – reducing the cost of journeys and […] 
‘Niamh’. Oil. Artist – David Oag Well known local artists will again be exhibiting their work for the Saddleworth Group of Artists Summer Exhibition at the Saddleworth Museum from Saturday 17th June to Sunday 16th July Always a popular show, the exhibition will be comprised of up to fifty works, with styles ranging from […] 
Wit Friday walkers in Diggle (Photo: ©StuartColeman) This year’s Whit Friday band contests are set to attract thousands of people to the borough – including musicians from as far afield as Switzerland and Australia. Dubbed ‘the greatest free show on earth’, this traditional event dates back to 1884. Contests will run across 11 villages […] 
A fascinating exhibition has launched at Gallery Oldham celebrating Oldham’s proud industrial past. In 1865 Godai Tomoatsu, a student from the western Japanese island of Kyushu and agent of the Prince of Satsuma, secretly came to Oldham. At the time Oldham was the world’s greatest cotton mill town. Godai visited the famous Platt Brothers’ Works […]
City leaders in Greater Manchester have welcomed the reopening of Victoria Station following last week’s horrific terrorist attack at Manchester Arena. The station, which has been shut since the incident on Monday 22 May, will reopen from tomorrow (Tuesday 30 May) – with Northern, Trans Pennine Express and Metrolink operating a full timetable of services. […] 
Are you concerned about issues such as planning, development, schooling, transport, traffic, health care & protection of the Green Belt in Saddleworth? Saddleworth Parish Council are preparing their Neighbourhood plan and want to ask local people about the issues that matter to them. Rob Knotts Chair of Saddleworth Parish Council Planning Committee is holding an […] 
Oldham Council has opened Books of Condolence in memory of all those tragically killed and injured in the terror attack at Manchester Arena. A Book of Condolence is now open at Royton Town Hall on Rochdale Road and another is based at the Civic Entrance (formerly Rochdale Road reception) at the Civic Centre on West […] 
Oldham Council (OMBC) are launching their annual Bloom and Grow campaign in a bid to be crowned ‘Champions of Champions’ in the Royal Horticultural Society Britain in Bloom UK Finals. This year OMBC has entered North West in Bloom and has also accepted the nomination to compete in Britain in Bloom, the Champions of Champions […] 
A seven year old boy from Oldham is the brains behind a new fun interactive drawing app. Freddie Dickson who lives in Moorside, came up with the idea, with a little help from his parents Kathryn and Oliver. Kathryn, along with husband Oliver owns and manages two soft play centres in Oldham. They spend their […] |
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