by Stuart Coleman | Jun 5, 2017 | Diggle News, Information
This year’s Whit Friday band contests are set to attract thousands of people to the borough – including musicians from as far afield as Switzerland and Australia. Dubbed ‘the greatest free show on earth’, this traditional event dates back to 1884. Contests will run...
by Stuart Coleman | Jun 2, 2017 | Diggle News, Information
A fascinating exhibition has launched at Gallery Oldham celebrating Oldham’s proud industrial past. In 1865 Godai Tomoatsu, a student from the western Japanese island of Kyushu and agent of the Prince of Satsuma, secretly came to Oldham. At the time Oldham was the...
by Stuart Coleman | May 29, 2017 | Diggle News, Information
City leaders in Greater Manchester have welcomed the reopening of Victoria Station following last week’s horrific terrorist attack at Manchester Arena. The station, which has been shut since the incident on Monday 22 May, will reopen from tomorrow (Tuesday 30 May) –...
by Stuart Coleman | May 26, 2017 | Diggle News, Information
Are you concerned about issues such as planning, development, schooling, transport, traffic, health care & protection of the Green Belt in Saddleworth? Saddleworth Parish Council are preparing their Neighbourhood plan and want to ask local people about the issues...
by Stuart Coleman | May 24, 2017 | Diggle News, Information
Oldham Council has opened Books of Condolence in memory of all those tragically killed and injured in the terror attack at Manchester Arena. A Book of Condolence is now open at Royton Town Hall on Rochdale Road and another is based at the Civic Entrance (formerly...
by Stuart Coleman | May 16, 2017 | Diggle News, Information
Oldham Council (OMBC) are launching their annual Bloom and Grow campaign in a bid to be crowned ‘Champions of Champions’ in the Royal Horticultural Society Britain in Bloom UK Finals. This year OMBC has entered North West in Bloom and has also accepted the nomination...
