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Anti-Trident Campaigners Hold Uppermill Protest

Elwyn Watkins (right) signs the petition in Uppermill on Saturday. (picture: Ken Hulme)

Members of the Saddleworth Peace Movement set up a stall in Uppermill on Saturday, collecting signatures against the proposed replacement of the UK’s fleet of Trident nuclear submarines. The Liberal Democrat candidate for Oldham East and […]

A Walk Along The Micklehurst Loop

The route of the Micklehurst Loop is now overgrown in places. (picture: Worthing Wanderer)

A former Saddleworth resident has returned to the area to take a walk along the disused Stalybridge to Diggle railway line. Paul Willis writes the Worthing Wanderer website about the various walks he goes on throughout the British countryside, and […]

Cash Reminder Over Community Projects

People and organisations in our area are being reminded that money is available for community projects from the so-called South Pennine LEADER fund. Saddleworth Parish Councillors have been told that the awarding body had been too “cautious” in giving grants at first, meaning there’s plenty of money left in the pot.

A total of £2.4m […]

Letter: John Battye As Ernst Blofeld?

Below is a letter to the editor sent by Ken Hulme, who represents Delph and Denshaw as an independent on Saddleworth Parish Council. He will also be standing as an independent in the Saddleworth North ward in the elections to Oldham Council on 6 May.

I’ve reproduced the letter in full. If you would like […]

A View From Saddleworth Moor

A view of Yeoman Hey and Dove Stone reservoirs near Greenfield, taken from Saddleworth Moor. (picture: Robert Hough)

Saddleworth Moor has been back in the national news in recent days, as volunteers begin their efforts to find the body of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett. But the moors can be beautiful as well as […]