New Oldham council boss is proudly borough's first openly gay leader

A woman was cut from her car and taken to hospital following a crash in Oldham. Emergency services responded to the incident in Oldham Road, Grotton, shortly before 11am today.

A man has been charged with murder following the death of a man in Oldham.

MPs in Oldham have written to health chiefs raising concerns that it took five days to notify them about a major IT failure that led to a ‘critical incident’ being declared at four hospitals.

Two men, both under the age of 21, who killed their Uber driver after brutally attacking him in the street were among the criminals locked up in Manchester last week. Prison terms were also handed to a pub landlord who groomed and sexually assaulted underage girls, raping one as young as eight years old and holding a knife to her throat.

Children in Oldham are more likely to be born into poverty than in any other borough in Greater Manchester - with families facing heartbreaking cutbacks to stay afloat.

Lucy Livesey was 20 weeks pregnant when she was taken into a private room at St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester. She knew from the plain chairs and neutral wallpaper that it was a 'bad news room’, just like the one she was led into when her twin brother died in 2004.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder by police investigating the fatal stabbing of a man in his 40s. Emergency services rushed to Oldham town centre in the early hours of Saturday following reports of a man with suspected knife wounds.

IT experts are being 'brought in from abroad' to solve more than a week of chaos at four of Greater Manchester's biggest hospitals hamstrung by technical glitches, according to staff on the ground. The help is being flown in from the US, the Manchester Evening News understands.

Doctors and nurses across four of the region’s major hospitals say they are ‘losing patients in hospitals’ as a huge IT failure tips over into more than a week of chaos. ‘Waiting times are rising’, staff are doing ‘longer shifts’, and staff are ‘unable to track their patients as they move through the hospitals’ because the electronic systems continue to crash.

Staff across four of Greater Manchester's hospitals say they are struggling to 'access their patients' medical records, electronically prescribe medications and reliably see test results'. The concerns come as four hospitals have been hit by major IT failures lasting nearly a week, after problems began on Wednesday, May 18.

Hospital bosses are warning the public to avoid the Royal Oldham Hospital's emergency department unless urgent and life-threatening. The hospital has today declared a critical incident after almost a week of IT failures across four Greater Manchester hospitals which have caused 'severe delays' to patient care, according to staff.

A former Greater Manchester Police officer has been charged with several offences.

A man was left with a head injury after being attacked with a weapon in a 'disorder' in Oldham.

Steeped in history but all too often overshadowed by its neighbour Manchester, Oldham is frequently cited in both local and national conversations about ‘levelling up’.

A mum claims her disabled son is at risk of injuring himself every time he leaves the house following a two-year battle to get a drop kerb installed outside their home in Oldham.

A man has been charged with a rape following an alleged attack in Oldham. Police said Kieron Murray, 41, will appear at Manchester Magisrates' Court today (Saturday).

A man with an 'obsession of female body parts' approached a lone woman on the street and shouted 'I want a f**k' before assaulting her.

The coronavirus infection rate has gone up in one area of Greater Manchester. The weekly rates have fallen in the other nine boroughs, the latest figures show.

The coronavirus infection rate is higher than the national average in three boroughs of Greater Manchester. And, according to the latest data, the rate has risen in one area of the region.

A man accused of murder told a court it 'blew up' after an Uber driver challenged his friend about eating a takeaway in the back of his Mercedes. Connor McPartland, 20, and, Martin Treacy, 18, are both accused of murdering 38-year-old taxi driver Ali Asghar.