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'If we're going out, we're doing it our way' - line-up for Oldham Coliseum's final show includes Maxine Peake and Christopher Eccleston

The one-night-only event will give audiences a final opportunity to embrace the theatre and its special place in Oldham's history

Manchester Evening News

King's Coronation: How to apply for a street party in your borough as deadlines fast approach

The deadline to apply for a street party in your neighbourhood is looming

Manchester Evening News

Eton College promises its new sixth form in Oldham will be a 'good neighbour'

Partnership with secondary schools in Greater Manchester means hundreds of local students can visit the world-famous college

Manchester Evening News

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“It will echo off the walls when the lights go out”: Oldham Coliseum's powerful last word

“The fact that places like the Coliseum are being closed and opportunities to have these conversations in different communities are being removed is horrendous - it’s actually quite dangerous"

Manchester Evening News

Oldham Coliseum appoints new board to preserve theatre’s legacy and region’s culture

The trustees will decide on the future of the organisation which lost all its Arts Council funding and hosts final performances this month

The Guardian - UK

Woman haunted by 'innocuous' memory from childhood found dead in a Travelodge

The 36-year-old, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, had been living in Wakefield while working as an inclusion manager at a school in West Yorkshire

Daily Mirror

Woman haunted by a childhood incident found dead in Travelodge room

"She felt she couldn't carry on"

Manchester Evening News

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"It was all really strange": Residents speak of confusion after car park cordoned off due to ‘suspicious item’

Police and bomb disposal experts were called to the scene in Oldham this afternoon

Manchester Evening News

Road closed with firefighters scrambled as car catches fire on major route

Traffic was stopped as fire crews dealt with the blaze in Oldham

Manchester Evening News

Man who kidnapped council receptionist from her desk with knife and meat cleaver sparked hospital lockdown and 'stand-off' with armed police

Daniel Buckley walked into Oldham Civic Centre and made her drive to the Royal Oldham - he earlier threatened a mum in her home

Manchester Evening News

Rugby league legend Kevin Sinfield made Freeman of the Borough of Oldham

Kevin has done incredible sporting challenges to raise money for ex-teammate Rob Burrow who was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease

Manchester Evening News

Drivers in Greater Manchester borough furious over 'March madness' on 'crumbling' roads

A councillor said motorists are getting 'sick and tired' of disruption due to roadworks in March

Manchester Evening News

Ibrahim was a fit and active teenage boy - one day he went to bed and never woke up

Ibrahim Shahid was found 'unresponsive' in bed by his parents at his home in Oldham on Wednesday morning

Manchester Evening News

Oldham Coliseum boss bemoans 'double edged sword' after devastating closure news confirmed

It comes after months of campaigning to save the venue.

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King's Coronation to be shown on big screen in Piccadilly Gardens

Oldham will also get a big screen in Parliament Square

Manchester Evening News

Oldham Athletic to get new £1m pitch under plans to boost future of sport in town

Oldham Council is investing in the new 'high specification' playing surface at the Latics' Boundary Park home.

The Independent UK

Oldham Coliseum confirms closure with ‘deep sadness’

The venue is shutting its doors for the final time after Arts Council England announced its funding would be cut.

The Guardian - UK

Dismay as Oldham Coliseum confirms final closure at end of March

Loss of £1.8m grant ends run for 138-year-old theatre that helped launch careers of many northern English actors

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Oldham Coliseum confirms with 'deep sadness' it will close in two weeks despite passionate campaign to save theatre

“The outpouring of love for the theatre over the past weeks has been overwhelming," the theatre company said

Manchester Evening News

Six Greater Manchester boroughs benefit from Jeremy Hunt's surprise Levelling Up cash in Spring Budget

Jeremy Hunt made the announcement in his Spring Budget

Daily Mirror

Girl, 3, went to bed with a runny nose - but mysteriously never woke up

Eva Rydings, from Oldham, was found dead in her bed by her brother in the morning after going to bed having appeared to be "healthy" and "normal", an inquest heard

Manchester Evening News

The Greater Manchester areas with the most reports of fly-tipping

Greater Manchester councils have seen 93,629 fly-tipping incidents reported between 2020 and 2022

Manchester Evening News

'She was all our daughters': Community comes together to remember teen knocked down and killed as she walked to college

Alisha Goup, 16, died when she was hit by BMW in Oldham last month

Manchester Evening News

“Without her, I would be absolutely nothing" - how Mika the Cockapoo changed Oldham teen's life after autism diagnosis

Now the duo are heading to Birmingham in the hopes of winning a rosette at Crufts this weekend

Manchester Evening News

'We think they earn their money, don't you?' - Council in snowy Oldham takes on Facebook posters critical of gritting teams

One posted 'excuses' when the council warned of two snowbound closed roads

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