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Cllr Rob Knotts Reporter: Stuart Littleford Issues around the human rights of children have been raised at the meeting of Saddleworth Parish Council on Monday in a new bid to remove Councillor Mike Buckley from office following his conviction for downloading indecent images of children. In a statement made to the council at the meeting, Independent Councillor, Rob Knotts said he believed there were good grounds to remove Cllr Buckley from office for failing to take into account […]
UCAN members with their substantial haul of items from the canal Reporter: Stuart Littleford Member of Uppermill Community Association (UCAN) recently recovered a huge amount of debris from the canal in Uppermill after they took advantage of the low water line during the current lock gate repairs. Their 8 December Project Day focused on the removal of submerged rubbish from the canal stretch from Moorgate bridge to Lime Kiln lock. The volunteers efforts resulted in quite a substantial and […]
Debbie Abrahams MP Reporter: Stuart Littleford A disabled man from Saddleworth has described the effect of having his social security payments stopped by the DWP for five months as being ‘like a death sentence’. John Ruane, from Lees, has been diagnosed as having a benign brain tumour causing him to have several epileptic seizures each week and making it impossible for him to work. The DWP alleged that John missed an appointment for a work capability assessment and stopped […]
Reporter: Stuart Littleford The boil water advice for drinking water in parts of Saddleworth remains in place this evening and will last for at least the next 48 hours say United Utilities. Saddleworth News reported early this morning that an issue with mains water was affecting parts of Saddleworth, especially Greenfield, as well as Stalybridge, Ashton-under-Lyne, Hyde and Dukinfield. The fault at the treatment works has now been fixed we understand and the situation is slowly improving, but affected householders […]
NatWest Bank on High Street in Uppermill - set to close next year Reporter: Stuart Littleford NatWest Bank has told Saddleworth News that customers of its Uppermill branch will still be able to access local banking services after its closure next year, but not everyone in the area is convinced the level of service will remain the same. The Uppermill branch will close on 27 June 2017 as bank bosses say it has seen transactions declining by 29% since […]
Kevin Shaw, Oldham Coliseum Theatre’s Artistic Director and Chief Executive and Jean Stretton, Oldham Council Leader, celebrate the news of the Arts Council England funding grant at Gallery Oldham, overlooking the Southgate Street site where the new Coliseum will be built Oldham is to build a new Coliseum Theatre in its budding Cultural Quarter after the plans were awarded a multi-million pound funding injection. A successful Round 2 joint funding bid by Oldham Council and Oldham Coliseum Theatre has […]
Nicole Saltslinger the gritter with Eve and Cllr Hussain Reporter: Stuart Littleford After an avalanche of interest and suggestions Oldham Council can reveal the name of our new gritter is Nicole Saltslinger. Named after the former Pussycat Doll and X-Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger the now famous yellow gritter has become the most famous vehicle in the country over the last few weeks. Recently we asked primary school children from across the borough to ‘prove their salt’ and come up […]
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