A former swimming teacher with Oldham Community Leisure (OCL) has swapped her goggles for PPE, working as a frontline nurse at Tameside Hospital during the…
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Author: Aimee Belmore
OCL launches online workouts suitable for all
OLDHAM Community Leisure (OCL) has launched a new online exercise option for residents, targeted specifically at those who may have reduced mobility, underlying health conditions or…
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Theatres team up to stream musical The Hired Man
OLDHAM Coliseum Theatre, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Hull Truck Theatre are streaming their landmark 2019 revival of The Hired Man to raise vital funds their project. Together the theatres reach…
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MP’s ‘virtual’ Working for Your Community Summer School 2020 open for applications
Debbie Abrahams, MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, has opened applications for her seventh annual Working for Your Community Summer School – but this year the school…
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Lockdown can’t ‘park’ Kim and Mark’s horticulture apprentice ambitions
WHILE lockdown has seen a boom in people tending their gardens, this type of work has continued as normal for Oldham College’s Horticulture apprentices. Two…
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Contentious extension approved for Dryclough Manor care home in Royton
By Charlotte Green, local democracy reporter CONTENTIOUS proposals to build a three-storey extension to a care home in Royton have been approved by planning chiefs…
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Oldham’s Tommyfield Market Hall set to reopen after three months
OLDHAM Council is urging residents to ‘love their local market and shop local’ as Tommyfield Market prepares to reopen on Monday, June 15 after nearly three months.…
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OSFC photography students’ work featured in ‘At Home’ national exhibition
THE eye-catching work of three A-Level photography students from Oldham Sixth Form College has been selected to feature in the ‘At Home’ national exhibition. The…
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MPs to host support webinar for community and voluntary organisations in Oldham and Saddleworth
LOCAL MPs Debbie Abrahams and Jim McMahon are hosting an online support session for community and voluntary sector organisations based in Saddleworth and Oldham. The…
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Oldham Sixth Form College’s Aspiring Medics Programme celebrates record number of university offers
Oldham Sixth Form College is proud to be celebrating a record number of Medicine and Dentistry university offers for its Year 13 Aspiring Medic students.…
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