Headteacher threatens to withdraw pupils from school after children tell teachers they are visiting people outside their household

The housing association sought legal action against Yonas Behre following an incident at Salix Homes’ headquarters Diamond House, off Eccles New Road. Behre, aged 33, was on the waiting list for social housing and had been offered a property by Salix Homes in Pendleton.

direct to your inboxDisabled people have been waiting so long to get a dedicated parking bay in Oldham they may be ‘dead or no longer be able to drive’, according to a councillor.Coun Howard Sykes, who leads the Liberal Democrat opposition group, says that some people in the borough have had to wait ‘almost three years’ for a parking space.He raised the issue with the council on behalf of one of his constituents in Shaw and said he found the answers ‘disturbing’.Coun Sykes said that 80 people

direct to your inboxA further 11 people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus.The region's coronavirus hospital death toll has now reached 5,202, the latest NHS figures show.Nine new deaths were confirmed by Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.The trust's figures include those of North Manchester General, the Royal Oldham, Fairfield General and Rochdale Infirmary.Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and Salford Royal recorded one new Covid death

direct to your inboxA drunken mum threatened to torch terrified neighbours after dousing them with petrol at a barbecue and then attacked a peace-maker with a kitchen knife.Gemma Wood, 38, went berserk during a garden party to celebrate a neighbour's new baby.When police were called, they found Wood had pinned down another resident she was attacking with a six-inch knife."She's dead," sozzled Wood told officers, although her victim survived.Now Wood, who has a teenage son, has been jailed for

direct to your inboxA mum who has been given the keys to a ‘state-of-the-art’ new council home in Oldham said it has ‘given her family a whole new world’.Oldham council has bought 19 eco-friendly, five-bedroom properties in Primrose Bank to provide affordable family accommodation in the borough.Mum-of-four Louise is one of the first residents to move into the development, and more families will be moving into seven of the homes in the coming weeks.The remaining 12 houses are due to be handed

direct to your inboxPolice are investigating whether a 'suspicious item' which sparked a bomb scare in Oldham, was in fact a tracking device. Officers taped off a large section of Arkwright Street in Chadderton shortly after 1.30pm on Thursday afternoon.

direct to your inboxMore than 17,000 children and young people in Oldham will be offered support to stop them going hungry during February half term.The council has agreed to fund food vouchers worth £15.They can be used at supermarkets and will be available for children who are eligible for free school meals; families on low incomes with pre-school children aged up to five; and for care leavers under 25-years-old.Young people at Oldham College and Oldham Sixth Form who receive means-tested free

direct to your inboxA further 34 people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus.The region's hospital death toll has risen to 5,086 the latest NHS figures show.Fifteen new deaths were recorded by Stockport NHS Foundation Trust in its 24 hour data.Seven Covid-related deaths were confirmed by Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust .

direct to your inboxA man suffered serious burns after an 'old firework he found in the garage' exploded as he tried to dispose of it on the moors. Paramedics and mountain rescuers treated the man following the incident at 3.25pm on Sunday at Indian Head, near Dovestones reservoir in Oldham.

direct to your inboxCouncillors and an MP are opposing plans for a huge £150 million waste-to-energy plant in Oldham that would be as tall as ’12 double-decker buses’.Proposals are expected to be submitted ‘any day now’ to the planning department for a new energy recovery facility on Mossdown Road in Royton.The incinerator, which would deal with non-recyclable commercial waste, would transform the energy from burning rubbish into electricity for the national grid.A similar plan was proposed in

direct to your inbox An inquest has opened into the death a motorcyclist who died in a crash while driving home from work in Oldham. Wayne Heath tragically lost his life after his Yamaha motorbike collided with a Vauxhall Isignia on Ashton Road.

Brandon Thomas Lee was forced to defend himself with a golf club after an intruder allegedly broke into his Malibu home. 

I was lucky enough to be among the very first people, particularly among journalists, to see The Assistant, even before its world premiere at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival which was before it had been sold to a distributor. I did the first interview with its writer and director Kitty Green, previously best known for her work in the nonfiction field.

direct to your inboxFlood alerts are in place tonight in Oldham and Tameside with images showing the River Tame reaching 'extremely high water levels'.Storm Christoph continues to bring torrential rain across Greater Manchester and it is forecast to continue into Thursday morning.

direct to your inboxTwenty-seven more people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus.The region's hospital death toll has now reached 4,645, the latest NHS figures show.Nine more deaths have been recorded at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.The trust's figures include those for North Manchester General, the Royal Oldham, Fairfield General and Rochdale Infirmary.Eight further deaths were confirmed by Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation

direct to your inbox The owner of a pony that choked to death in Oldham has pleaded with people not to ignore ‘do not feed’ signs.  Lightning the 12-year-old pony collapsed and died in his field off Thorpe Lane yesterday (January 17). He stopped breathing when a full potato became trapped at the bottom of his windpipe. Neighbours watched as he ran across his field and into their fence in a “blind panic”. It is now understood he was desperately trying to dislodge the food. Lightning gasped for