'My son was randomly attacked with a knife - strangers intervened and saved his life'

Oldham has some of the highest child poverty rates in the UK. More than half of all kids across the borough are living below the poverty line.

The Met Office has issued a thunderstorm warning for today - including for parts of Greater Manchester.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, the recently-combined genre giants, will produce a new film from “Evil Dead Rise” director Lee Cronin at New Line Cinema.Cronin will write and direct the top secret project, one that has been suggested will remain in his horror wheelhouse. The Irish filmmaker will also produce the project through his label Doppelgängers.New Line, a Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group label, has dated the film for an April 2026 release.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Mark James, a Songwriters Hall of Fame member who wrote or co-wrote “Suspicious Minds,” “Always on My Mind” and “Hooked on a Feeling,” died June 8 at his home in Nashville. The news was reported by his hometown newspaper, the Houston Chronicle. James was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.

The smile drops almost instantly from Richard McPartland’s face when he hears the word ‘election’.

A man who nearly died from sepsis after catching flu from a colleague now volunteers at the hospital which saved his life. Alan Curran, 54, who previously worked as a courier, stopped in to check on a sick colleague in November 2022.

Nigel Farage made headlines earlier this week when he claimed there were streets in Oldham where nobody spoke the English language. The comment was made during an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

Excited parents-to-be, Rebecca and Tom, were supposed to be welcoming their baby 363 days ago. But just days before their daughter Harper’s first birthday, Rebecca sits tearfully in a courtroom, hearing that the ways her partner’s death ‘would have been avoided’.

A jealous and cruel boyfriend poured boiling hot coffee over his former partner during a campaign of abuse and controlling behaviour.

As Leader of the Labour Party since 2020, Sir Keir Starmer is about to face his first-ever General Election in charge of the UK's opposition. Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015, Sir Keir is from London and is 61 years old.

Bargain retailer B&M has announced plans to open 14 more stores this summer, with the first one set to open its doors as early as this week. The bargain high street retailer revealed today that the newest store will be opening in Maesteg, Wales, this Saturday - with Greater Manchester expected to see two store openings and a big expansion over the next three months.

Tributes have been paid to a young man tragically killed when a car overturned in a major crash in Oldham on Sunday night (June 2). Atif Zaheer, 26, was pronounced dead at the scene of the horror collision, on Greenacres Road, at around 11.40pm.

A primary school in Oldham has turned itself around after it was first told by Ofsted that teaching was ‘not good enough’ and kids’ attainments were ‘hampered’ by a poor curriculum almost seven years ago. St Hilda’s CofE Primary has seen a ‘shift’ and ‘improved’ outcomes for pupils, a report published this month found.

A man who died after being struck by a motorbike while crossing the road in Oldham has been named as Tim Scratcherd.

A primary school teacher stabbed her partner to death and buried his body in their garden after he declared his love for her, a court has heard.

Could all this talk about Travis Kelce not being ready to commit yet be a huge pump fake? Is there already a wedding being planned? That’s the suspicion at the front of a lot of Taylor Swift fans’ minds after the latest New Heights podcast…

Stop and search powers have been beefed up in Oldham after two boys were injured in two linked attacks. Officers were called out to an ongoing, large-scale fight at Stuart Street, off Wellington Road, at around 6pm yesterday (May 28).

Police taped off an alleyway in Oldham on Tuesday evening (May 28) amid reports of a person being attacked following a fight. The narrow footpath, off Wellington Road, was cordoned off and an evidence tent erected at the scene.

Patricia Richardson, who starred as family matriarch Jill Taylor on the hit ABC sitcom Home Improvement, said she used the large pay gap between her and co-star Tim Allen to avoid continuing with the show.

The government is urging young people across the UK to utilise a free service to check for forgotten sums in Child Trust Funds (CTFs).