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Two Labour councillors have reportedly thrown their hat in the ring to replace Arooj Shah as Oldham's town hall leader. That's according to one Labour party source.

Death threats, 'conspiracy theories' and police escorts – an ousted ex-leader has revealed what it’s really like heading up Oldham council.

H&M is to close its Oldham town centre store, the retailer has announced.

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Oldham council bought the town’s Spindles Shopping Centre for £9.5m, it has been revealed.The town hall had announced the purchase of the Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre and the proposed relocation of Tommyfield Market into the complex last month.Council leader Sean Fielding then said they couldn’t reveal the cost as it was commercially sensitive, but described the purchase as an ‘absolute bargain’.However he made the figure public at a meeting of the full council on Wednesday night.“While

Councillors were presented with an update on the progress of an investigation into allegations of child sexual exploitation in Oldham during a heated town hall meeting.An independent review is currently underway into alleged child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the borough which concern ‘shisha bars, taxi companies and children’s homes’.Council leader Sean Fielding and Independent Failsworth East councillor Brian Hobin clashed over the issue at a virtual meeting of the full council on Wednesday

Oldham’s Spindles Shopping Centre has been bought by the council for ‘millions’ in a move which will see Tommyfield Market relocated and a new town centre park created.The town hall has announced the purchase as part of its £306m ‘Creating a Better Place’ strategy to regenerate the borough, which is being funded from capital expenditure.Due to ‘commercial sensitivity’ reasons, the council would not confirm how much it paid for the shopping centre complex.However council leader Sean Fielding told

Local lockdown measures are suppressing an explosion of new cases of coronavirus - but are not enough on their own to bring down climbing infection rates, Oldham’s council leader has said.Councillor Sean Fielding believes that the return to schools and workplaces, combined with the effect of the Eat Out to Help Out scheme is behind the latest dramatic spike in Greater Manchester.The council leader also criticised the ‘contradictory messages’ from the government which meant people were becoming

hereIt comes three days after Oldham council announced that restrictions on socialising and visiting other people’s homes were being reintroduced following a spike of 119 new cases in the borough.Reacting to the latest news, leader Sean Fielding said he was supportive of the measures being brought back by government but criticised the way they were communicated.“There is real concern about the way that it was announced, both the timing and lack of clarity,” he added.“The amount of confusion and

Moving people who test positive for coronavirus from large households to self-isolate elsewhere is ‘not on the table’, Oldham’s council leader has said.Despite a hundred plus spike in cases being mainly attributed to ‘household transmission’, councillor Sean Fielding said leaders were not looking at measures to move residents who test positive into separate dwellings away from family members.He was responding to a question from Nick Robinson, on Radio Four's Today show, who asked whether they

The government must ‘learn lessons’ from the Great Depression and the Second World War when it comes to rebuilding the country post-pandemic, a council leader has said.

A doctor has warned that people should not be using bleach to protect themselves from coronavirus after Donald Trump suggested disinfectant could be injected to kill the virus.

Changes to bin collections in Oldham will be introduced - and other services disrupted - because of the coronavirus crisis.

It's very rare that a bus service facing the axe is given an 11th hour reprieve.

Plans to refurbish Royton's historic Town Hall have moved a step closer after bosses agreed to go out to tender for a contractor.

Town hall chiefs have given the green light to a huge £306million spending pledge into Oldham which they vow will be a 'game changer' for the borough.