Oliver Ryan: Last News

A councillor has claimed he has been 'thrown under the bus' by the Labour Party after he was suspended over his membership of the Trigger Me Timbers WhatsApp group.

Tameside's political landscape has been rocked by scandal and in-party squabbles this week. But it's nothing new.

Andrew Gwynne has been sacked as a minister and suspended from the Labour Party over comments he made in a WhatsApp group.

A second Labour MP - a former councillor in Tameside - has apologised over comments in a WhatsApp group after Gorton and Denton MP Andrew Gwynne was sacked as a government minister.

Presents, cake, there's all the usual ways of celebrating a birthday. But 22-year-old Oliver Ryan took his mum's special day to the extreme by plastering her face on one of Europe's biggest billboards.

Councillors have agreed to go out to market to bring the former Hyde Library building ‘back to life’ as they revealed the cause of a recent fire at the historic site.

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A £1m project to expand a Tameside primary school has been signed off by town hall chiefs.Cabinet members Councillors Oliver Ryan and Leanne Feeley have agreed to fund the building of a new extension at St John’s Church of England primary school in Dukinfield.The school has taken extra pupils since September 2014, which was due to an increase in the birth rate in the area coupled with ‘substantial’ new build housing within Dukinfield and surrounding areas.The admission number was formally increased from 30 to 45 in 2013, and a series of works took place over the following five years to create extra space for pupils.Plans to create a new two classroom extension have been in the pipeline since 2017, but had not begun so a temporary mobile