Jim McMahon Press

North Chadderton School Awards

I WAS honoured to have attended the North Chadderton School Presentation Awards Evening as Chief Guest. It was incredibly moving to see so many proud parents, friends and families beam with pride as they watched their children receive the awards.

Don’t miss out on the Open Oldham Exhibition!

I WAS delighted to attend The Open Oldham Exhibition at The Gallery Oldham yesterday evening. It was moving to see how well attended the event was, with proud locals enjoying the incredible showcase of talent which was on display from our very own Oldham born and bred artists.

My response to the treatment of the Rohingya in Myanmar

LIKE ME YOU will have been troubled and angered by the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar and the plight of the Rohingya Muslims. The response from the Oldham community has been to come together to raise funds to support those fleeing into Bangladesh, and I pay tribute to those efforts.

Maxine Peake backs our call to honour local Suffragette hero

IT WAS an honour to have local actress Maxine Peake attending our Annie Kenney fundraising dinner at the weekend. Maxine is very vocal on the importance of raising women’s issues and fight for equal rights everywhere. So it was great to hear Maxine backing calls from Oldham campaigners for a statue honouring Annie, our local bornContinue reading “Maxine Peake backs our call to honour local Suffragette hero”

Chancellor to back down on gambling machines?

ENCOURAGING noises have come from the Treasury this week in favour of clamping down on ‘Fixed Odds Betting Terminals’ on the high street – dubbed the “crack cocaine” of gambling.

Action must be taken on dental hygiene among Oldham’s children

TODAY I met with my colleague Angela Rayner and the Royal College of Surgeons to talk about children’s dental hygiene in Oldham.

Update on Chronicle Pension Fund

MY OFFICE has received a number of enquiries from retired and working age members of the Oldham Chronicle Pension Fund to establish if they will receive the full value of pensions in the future.

I asked the Government to disclose the scale of the teacher shortage in Oldham. Their answer was shocking.

IT WOULD be an understatement to say that Oldham’s schools are being unfairly treated under the Tory government. Oldham schools are receiving blow after blow, from failed experiments like Collective Spirit Free School, which those in charge have simply walked away from; to funding cuts of £480 per-pupil.