Oldham Reporter from Friday, January 2nd, 2026

Can you help police find Jackson (13) from Oldham.

Crime is down and success rates up in past year - as GMP strives for even safer 2026.

People who may have been alone on Christmas Day were welcomed to enjoy turkey and all the trimmings at First Choice Homes Oldham’s (FCHO) Tensing Street Community Centre.

A junction with a public bin in Oldham has become a ‘magnet for fly-tipping’ creating a ‘disgusting’ eyesore, according to locals.

Oldham Council has been slammed over ‘bleak and shameful’ deprivation statistics that show conditions in the borough are worsening.

A homeowner has been ordered to remove a whole set of UPVC windows and a front door after the council deemed it ‘harmful’ to an historic building in Saddleworth.

Oldham is changing. Major developments across the Greater Manchester borough are making rapid progress. 

Oldham is due to get its first set of padel courts after plans to convert a former warehouse into a sportshall were approved.

Despite the freezing cold weather on a weekday morning, Uppermill’s high street is buzzing.

It’s only new year’s day and Manny Monthé’s header from about a yard out with the last touch of the game has won it for Latics. Not the match, but the miss of the year contest, besting Joe Quigley’s first-half howler from two yards. Joe Garner’s soft stoppage-time penalty straight at the legs of Zach Hemming in the Chesterfield goal was nowhere near as bad.