Leo Stott, from Shaw, Oldham, suffers from spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, which affects the bones and muscles in his legs.

Bedroom tax is a ‘cruel, punitive and discriminatory’ policy, claims Oldham MP Michael Meacher in an explosive post on his blog.

An angry Oldham trucker deliberately used his 17-tonne lorry to crush a Salford motorist to death after they became embroiled in a road rage row, a murder trial was told yesterday.
Horrified eyewitnesses saw Mr Allen’s head ‘explode’ and could hear bones breaking as the grandfather was dragged under the wheels of Slater’s DAF articulated lorry, a jury heard.

On April 7 2014, the 32-year-old man admitted causing a child to suffer serious physical harm. His partner and the child’s 30-year-old mother also admitted allowing a child to suffer serious physical harm.

More than 15 kilos of cannabis, with an estimated street value of £150,000, has been discovered in a disused bakery in Oldham.

The national day of industrial action follows months of disputes between the public sector and the government over working conditions and pay.

A ‘vulnerable’ 14-year-old Oldham girl has been missing for 36 hours and fears that she may have gone with a stranger continue to grow.

The attack took place on Busk Road, Oldham, at around 1.50am on Monday morning when a man approached the VW Golf and pointed a gun to the driver’s head.

Chris Tompson, 38, is staging a month-long protest in the Prime Minister’s Oxfordshire constituency of Witney.

A suspected gunman is being quizzed by police after a double shooting in Oldham saw two men blasted in the abdomen and buttocks.

A coroner has castigated revellers as a ‘disgrace’ after they refused to speak to police investigating the death of an Oldham boy who plummeted 40 feet off a balcony during a riotous party.