by Stuart Coleman | Jun 13, 2017 | Diggle News, News
To see the full gallery visit: Whit Friday in Diggle Related stories: Whit Friday Band Contest will hit all the right notes Whit Friday Band Contest to Hit the Right Notes A message from the chairman of the Diggle Whit Friday Committee Arrangements for Whit Friday in...
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...