by Stuart Coleman | Feb 26, 2016 | Diggle News, inSaddleworth, News
Chair of Oldham Planning Committee Photo:©StuartColeman At last night’s extraordinary planning meeting Oldham’s Councillors voted unanimously to approve plans to build a new Saddleworth School in Diggle. Four planning applications, presented to the Planning Committee...
by Stuart Coleman | Feb 26, 2016 | Diggle News, inSaddleworth, News
Local resident and cancer survivor, Jo Taylor, completed, with her friends and supporters, a marathon 20 mile sponsored walk on Saturday 20th February raising over £2545 for The Christie. Although the weather conditions were difficult, a mixed group of twenty-one...
by Stuart Coleman | Feb 3, 2016 | Diggle News, inSaddleworth, News
Stephen Irvine (left) responding to questions Stephen Irvine, Head of Planning and Infrastructure at Oldham Council, struggled, last night, to answer questions posed by Saddleworth residents relating to proposals to build a new Saddleworth School in Diggle. The...
by Stuart Coleman | Feb 3, 2016 | Diggle News, inSaddleworth, News
Osprey Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region Reward offered as more birds of prey are illegally killed in the Peak District National Park Derbyshire Police and the RSPB are appealing for information following the illegal killing of two birds of prey...
by Stuart Coleman | Jan 29, 2016 | Diggle News, inSaddleworth, News
Councillor Jean Stretton Oldham Council has confirmed the appointment of Jean Stretton as the local authority’s first ever female leader. The Hollinwood councillor’s selection was approved at an ‘extraordinary’ meeting of Full Council on January 27. Cllr Stretton had...
by Stuart Coleman | Jan 29, 2016 | Diggle News, inSaddleworth, News
Exhibitions Purring – Sport of the People (Until 9 April) Anna FC Smith brings her art works and research into the forgotten sport of clog fighting to Gallery Oldham. Smith examines this local sport in which colliers and mill workers would engage in combat, kicking...
