Follow this link and select My Oldham News. We have many other newsletters that may interest you as well.“We’ve very reluctantly looked at the difficult financial position that we’ve got and we’ve decided to go for an increase of 2.99,” he said.“We don’t want to do this but we have to do it because we have to produce a balanced budget.“But despite this increase, it’s the lowest council tax increase anywhere in Greater Manchester.“And this has been done reflecting on the financial situation of many of our residents in the borough.”He said that the coronavirus pandemic had made an ‘already challenging position even more difficult’ after the authority has had to reduce its budget by more than £200m in a decade.“There were a lot of difficult.
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