With Britain still in the European Union, it was election time for the European Parliament and the leader of the newly formed Brexit Party has reportedly claimed in a speech that people living in the town do not mix with others of a different race.
Nigel Farage made the comments at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania USA and covered by the Mail on Sunday who quote him saying:
“Let me take you to a town called Oldham in the North of England where literally on one side of the street everybody is white and on the other side of the street everybody is black.he twain never actually meet, there is no assimilation.These, folks, are divided societies in which resentments build and grow.”
Sean Fielding, the Labour leader of Oldham council suggested Farage was talking nonsense.
Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi’s brother will be extradited back to the UK but only when the situation in Libya has stabilised.The Interior Minister of Libya’s UN-backed government, Fathi Bashagha, told the BBC the court had agreed to extradite Mr Abedi to the UK because he is a British citizen.
An expat IT director from Manchester on a one-day work trip to Sri Lanka was named as the eighth British victim of the Easter Sunday terror attacks that killed 359 people.Lorraine Campbell aged 55 is believed to have died after a suicide bomber struck at the breakfast buffet of the Cinnamon Grand hotel in Colombo on Easter Sunday.
A shocking Manchester report found that the majority of ethnic minority workers have experienced racial harassment at work in the last five years, and have been subjected to unfair treatment by their employer because of their race.
More measles cases were confirmed in Greater Manchester so far this year than in the whole of the previous two years combined as as parents were urged to vaccinate their children.
Liam Gallagher’s clothing brand which went into administration has been bought by the sports retailers JD Sports it was announced.The deal should mean that 67 staff members will be able to keep their jobs in the City.However, the remaining 11 Pretty Green stores and its 33 House of Fraser concessions will cease trading immediately,affecting 97 employees
About Manchester reported that a 12-seater punt made from 99% recycled plastic will be launched by the City Mayor of Salford, Paul Dennett, in Salford Quays.
From April to June the ‘Poly Roger’ boat will go on tour across the UK, taking people out on ‘plastic fishing’ trips to raise awareness of the growing levels of plastic pollution in our rivers and canals and to encourage more people to recycle their used plastic. The boat has been built from plastic collected on previous plastic fishing trips, with plans to build a litter-busting fleet across the UK – a fantastic example of the circular economy in action.
A butterfly that has been extinct in Manchester since 1850 will return to the area once more it was announced.The Manchester argus (or large heath) butterfly disappeared from mosslands just outside the city more than 150 years ago. First discovered on Chat Moss, it deserves its place back in Manchester.
There was sad new as the singer and dancer in the Piccadilly Rats Ray Boddington died after being hit by a tram in the City Centre .The seventy eight year old was hit by the tram travelling from Market Street in the direction of Victoria train station at the junction of High Street and Church Street.
A ceramic pavement to commemorate the birth of a notable scientist has been unveiled in Trafford.The artwork was unveiled in Worthington Park, Sale, in front of a memorial statue of James Joule, who lived in Sale in the 19th century. The physicist, who has the unit of energy named after him, worked out a law concerning heat and resistance and established the important principle that heat and mechanical work are both forms of energy.
Forgotten maps of Manchester slums are to be restored and available to view, it was announced.The maps from the early 1880s provide information on the age of dwellings and the use of other buildings, and help us to visualise the dense physical layout of some of the city’s most notorious slums such as Red Bank, which was described by Friedrich Engels as “utterly uninhabitable” when he wrote about Manchester in the 1840s.
