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(picture: GMP) Here’s another wonderful image from the Oldham archives of Greater Manchester Police. It shows the town’s “firebobbies” - police officers who often doubled up as firefighters - proudly showing off their ladders. There’s no date or precise location attached to the photo, so if you […]
Independent candidate for Springhead Higher, Rob Knotts, pictured in Uppermill on Saturday.
Rob Knotts, standing as an independent in the Springhead Higher ward in next month’s elections to Saddleworth Parish Council, has said he would not “kowtow to Oldham Council or party political issues” if he’s […]
The aftermath of Saturday's fire, as viewed from the A640 Nont Sarah's Road. A large area of Marsden Moor has been left charred and blackened by Saturday’s huge wildfire. One firefighter was injured as crews tackled the blaze, which was just on the Kirklees side of the district boundary […]
An internet service provider based in Delph has said it expects faster broadband to be available in Saddleworth from sometime this summer. ADSL24 has revealed that engineers have already been spotted laying the cables for fibre optic broadband in our area. In a statement, the company’s technical director James Wood commented: “Saddleworth not only has […]
The beautiful sunshine of the weekend isn’t going to last according to the forecast, as conditions return to more typical April weather in the coming days. Today should see a mixture of cloudy weather and brighter spells, with the best of those likely this afternoon. Temperatures will be several degrees cooler than yesterday, with highs […]
Achtung Baby is a column about family life written by Suze Nowak, who is originally from Denshaw and now lives in Germany: FINJE’S ENGLISH/AUSSIE phrase of the week is: “Check out my new skateboard mate!” I’m not sure what’s more concerning, the fact that she has actually started to end her sentences with Australian twang […]
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