Gary Carter

2 weeks ago | saddind.co.uk | Gary Carter

HUGELY successful retailer Housing Units has added more experience to its team with the appointment of Martin Norris. With a wealth of experience in furniture sales and buying, having held roles at DFS, Furniture Village and Next, he is the latest face at the business, whose store is on WIckentree Lane in Failsworth. And it is hoped the new man at head office, on Tweedale Way in Chadderton, in the role of furniture buyer can help it grow even more by making its offering even stronger.

2 weeks ago | tamesidecorrespondent.co.uk | Gary Carter

A HYDE primary school has been praised by Ofsted inspectors after the way it works ‘improved significantly.’Bradley Green Primary Academy, on Bradley Green Road in Newton, is already ranked as good by the government body. But a monitoring visit on December 17 has resulted in a glowing report of the way it has been built on that foundation. Inspectors also highlighted how it is ‘a vibrant and happy place in which to learn’ and may now be regraded because of the progress made.

2 weeks ago | thesun.co.uk | Gary Carter

SALFORD are being forced to wait a little longer for their much-promised investment to happen. A consortium headed by Swiss businessman Dario Berta has found itself ridiculed after a string on cash crises ravaged the club. Now staff have been told they will have to hang on even more before things can really move forward. Currently, the targeted date of May 10 is being worked to, rather than mid-April.

2 weeks ago | tamesidecorrespondent.co.uk | Gary Carter

THE TRUE cost of a contentious trip by Tameside Council’s leader days after a five per cent increase in council tax was voted through has been revealed. Cllr Eleanor Wills attracted criticism when she was pictured at the south of France resort of Cannes attending the MIPIM – Le Marché international des professionnels de l’immobilier – conference.

2 weeks ago | saddind.co.uk | Gary Carter

OLDHAM councillors will be asked to vote on whether a third of them should be cut. Or as one put it, ‘turkeys will be asked to vote for Christmas’. Currently, 60 representatives make up the borough authority. But at a full council meeting on Wednesday, April 9, the Conservatives, which include three in Saddleworth – Max Woodvine, Luke Lancaster and Pam Byrne – Royton North’s Lewis Quigg and St James’ Beth Sharp, will put forward a motion saying that number should be slashed to 40.