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BME National

Oct 5, 20112 min read

News: Housing association urges residents to sign petition against benefit changes

Oldham-based landlord Aksa Homes is calling for tenants to sign a petition, or write to their MP, to urge ministers to rethink changes to...

BME National

May 26, 201110 min read

Feature: Oldham: A town still divided?

The Manchester I left behind in 1997 seemed to me a place of racial harmony. Asian and white children had mixed happily in my small...

BME National

May 9, 20113 min read

Comment: 10 years on from the Oldham race riots

In May 2001 that division manifested itself in the ugliest of ways when racial tensions erupted in violence in Glodwick and the...