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• Headteacher commends Year 11 for remarkable resilience and determination

  The wait was finally over at Oasis Academy Leesbrook as students collected their GCSE results - a morning filled with celebration, smiles and new beginnings.

• Work gets underway on ‘gamechanging’ project that could bring more than 700 jobs to Oldham

  Work has started on a ‘game changing’ new industrial development in Oldham that promises to create hundreds of jobs. Contractors have broken ground at the Hollinwood site, which will soon be turned into 192,000 sq ft of new warehousing and manufacturing space across 13 industrial units.

• Controversial planning application could see green light

  A controversial planning application to turn a former health centre into a 20-bed HMO has reportedly been recommended for approval after some amendments were made to the floorplans. 

• Gullies taken over by weeds

  Hundreds of gullies have been reported as blocked in Oldham, as residents and councillors complain the grids on their highways have started looking ‘more like gardens’.