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The A62 between Marsden and Standedge. The number of road crashes on the A62 has fallen in Kirklees as well as Saddleworth. Figures obtained by Saddleworth News show there were a total of just six accidents between Slaithwaite and Standedge between the start of 2008 and the end of May this year. That’s a notable improvement [...]
The junction of the A62, Doctor Lane and Platting Road in Scouthead. Attempts to make the A62 in Saddleworth safer appear to be working. Statistics obtained by Saddleworth News show that there were no accidents on the road in our area between January and May this year. The A62 Huddersfield Road has [...]
There have been 40 accidents on Uppermill High Street since 2000. Our roads are getting safer. Figures obtained by Saddleworth News have revealed a dramatic fall in the number of crashes throughout Saddleworth and Lees over the past decade. Back in 2000, there were 89 accidents in Saddleworth and Lees, [...] The website launched by Oldham Council in a bid to attract more visitors to our area is being used by fewer than 400 people each week, Saddleworth News can reveal. Figures released under Freedom of Information laws also show that the council spent more than £35,000 setting up Visit Oldham, and has set aside more [...] A dramatic night-time image of a fire on Rishworth Moor near the A672 earlier this year. (picture: Gary Richardson) Firefighters in Kirklees are having to battle more than one moorland blaze every week. There have been 67 moorland fires in the area since April 2009, even more than the 57 blazes recorded in the borough [...]
Firefighters respond to a blaze on Crompton Moor above Denshaw in April. There’s been a huge increase in the amount of fires breaking out on moorland in our area. The fire brigade responded to 36 moorland blazes in the borough of Oldham in April, May and June this year, compared with [...]
Saddleworth School has expressed an interest in becoming an academy. Two Saddleworth schools have told the Government they are interested in becoming so-called academy schools. Academy status would allow Saddleworth School and St Chad’s C of E Primary School, both in Uppermill, to opt out of Oldham Council control. Academies [...] |
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