Up to 400 homes could be built on one of Oldham's biggest industrial estates

Oldham B&Q store today (Sunday) as shoppers reported huge queues. Videos from a customer showed lines appearing to stretch the length of the shop on Westhulme Way.In the clips, people can be seen waiting as far as the eye can see, clutching items such as tools and wood.Others are waiting with purchases stacked in trollies in a line that stretched past a number of aisles.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentColombian documentary feature “Alis,” from directors Nicolas van Hemelryck and Clare Weiskopf, has won the Forum Award for best project at IDFA, one of the world’s leading documentary film festivals, which is running as a virtual event until Dec. 6.

Oldham. The 60-year-old was taken to hospital after two vehicles crashed at Woodstock Business Park on Meek Street in Royton at 5.30am on Thursday.He later died from his injuries.Several police vehicles were pictured at the scene of the incident this morning.The focus of the investigation appeared to be a forklift truck which had flipped onto its side at Chorlton Express Transport.

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The total number of coronavirus deaths at hospital trusts in Greater Manchester, as of Wednesday, November 18, are: The number of deaths are published on the NHS England website each day. You can access them here. The figure does not account for deaths in other settings, for instance care homes.Nationally, a further 282 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths in hospitals in England to 37,124.Patients were aged between 38 and 101 years

Greater Manchester Police have issued an appeal following an incident at the News Food and Booze off-licence on Beal Lane in Shaw. Cops were called at around 5.45pm on Monday, September 21.

Council bosses have agreed to sell a former school site in Oldham to a developer, which could build up to 150 new homes on the land.The Kaskenmoor school in Hollinwood, which opened in the mid-1960s, was a mixed comprehensive which had capacity for up to 900 students.It was an amalgamation of Greenhill Grammar School and Hollinwood Secondary Modern School, and was called Kaskenmoor Comprehensive School.It closed in 2010, and part of the school site was identified as surplus following the

A pupil referral unit in Oldham is to be expanded to take in extra children who have been permanently excluded from mainstream schools.At a meeting on Monday night bosses agreed to increase the planned admission number for Kingsland School by 30 to 100.The intake will be made up of 70 children who have been permanently excluded from other schools, and 30 children who attend the specialist learning centre.The specialist learning centre (SLC) takes students referred by child and adolescent mental

Wigan Athletic and Rochdale in League One, with Bolton Wanderers, Salford City and Oldham Athletic in League Two.

The latest weekly cases for the borough, broken up into Middle layer Super Output Areas (MSOA) which are sorted by population: Werneth – 127 Busk – 86 Oldham Town South – 85 Clough & Shaw Side – 66 Derker – 65 Moorside and Sholver – 62 Alexandra Park – 60 Chadderton South West – 57 Waterhead – 56 Oldham Town North – 53 Chadderton Central – 49 Royton North – 49 Failsworth East – 48 Lees and Hey – 48 Lime Side and Garden Suburb – 45 Royton East and Cowlishaw – 43 Shaw and Crompton

Firefighters are tackling a blaze at an industrial estate in Wigan.Around 400 vehicles are said to be involved in the fire, which took hold at the Kirkless Industrial Estate, in Aspull, in the early hours of Saturday morning (November 14).Residents are being asked to keep their doors and windows closed as smoke is billowing from the site.Motorists are also being asked to stay away and keep streets clear to allow access for emergency services vehicles.Cale Lane is currently blocked off due to the

presented later in the meeting, but overruled by a Labour amendment.Coun Hudson said: “I just want to say thank you to the Liberal Democrats on behalf of the people of Oldham for talking a load of crap which is unnecessary, when the sole purpose is to make sure the motion doesn’t get discussed tonight which is on people’s minds.“And I think people watching this will realise that governments and councils don’t care a toss about the people out there.”However Coun Sykes said changing road speeds

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsA3 Artists Agency announced Thursday the formation of its Physical Production Division. The agency has also enlisted veteran agent Craig Bernstein as Head of its newly-launched arm.“The shutdown due to the pandemic allowed us to act proactively and adapt,” said A3 Chairman Adam Bold.

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If the time has come to finally put your property on the market, you may want to find out what the houses are selling for in your area.Or yo may be looking for a new property in the Oldham area.In July, Oldham made up most of the top ten least expensive properties sold throughout the month.The cheapest sold for £48,000 right at the start of July.But if you want to know more, using our property widget you can put in any postcode and see what homes are currently up for sale or rent and how much

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Oldham now has the highest coronavirus infection rate in the country.The proportion of people in Oldham infected in the last week is around seven times higher than it was during the spike which took place in the summer.There were 781.1 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in the week up to November 2, ahead of Blackburn with Darwen where the rate is 720.8.No other Greater Manchester borough has had more than 700 cases per 100,000 people in any single week since the start of the Covid pandemic.But

hereHe says they left the scene before emergency services arrived. The anonymous eyewitness said: "I saw them going in, one guy outside on look out.