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Government and council will spend “weeks” deciding how to deal with leadership vacuum
Commissioners on the way in after councillors talk themselves out
Extraordinary? Tonight's council meeting is way more important than that
It would be easy and fun to write this preview of tonight's Oldham council extraordinary meeting as a long-ish riff on the inability of 60 allegedly grown-up elected representatives to sort themselves out, but the briefing published ahead of tonight’s extraordinary council meeting by Alex
Latics are just 45 games away from the League One promised land
...or 4,050 minutes plus stoppage time.
Give us a minute, Times Radio
Give us a minute, Times Radio
Last Tuesday afternoon on Times Radio, Darryl Morris, who was covering the Manchester mayoral election, and presenter Fi Glover, lamented the lack of serious, accountability-focused local media in Oldham. I could not have agreed more…except that Oldham Owl co-founder Jason Flynn
Freelance writers wanted
The Oldham Owl is looking to establish a roster of regular freelance contributors.
We are a new, independent publication for Oldham, launching in September. Our aim is to produce serious local journalism: news based on evidence, features with depth, interviews that ask useful questions, and explainers that help readers understand
Oldham deserves serious journalism
That is the simple idea behind The Oldham Owl. We are building an independent news organisation for the borough: one that reports carefully, explains clearly, investigates properly, and treats local public life as something that matters.
Oldham is not short of stories. It is short of sustained scrutiny that focuses
Coming soon
This is Oldham Owl, a brand new local news outlet for Oldham. We spotted a gap in the market: no one is producing the high-quality, impartial and rational journalism that Oldham desperately needs.
Edited by Will Holdaway and owned by Jason Flynn and Will Holdaway. We'll be