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0-7secs: News Jingle 7-16secs: (Soundbed 7-40secs) (Masroor) Hello, Im Masroor Ahmed and you are listening to Oldham Community News and in this mornings news. Has Oldham survived the recession? 16-20secs: (Soundclip) (Abdul Bashir) The economic situation in Oldham is worse than the national average 21-23secs: (Masroor) Can Oldham support a new music talent? 24-31secs: (Keef Lawrence) With the revenue down theres not enough money coming in to keep the bands and the level that we have been having them. 32-34secs: (Masroor) And our news on the Oscars 2013 film winners 35-38secs: (Soundclip Oscars Voxpops) A lot of people think that Django shouldve won 39-41secs: (Sting) 42-57secs: (Masroor) The UK economy has returned to the recession its shrank by 0.3% in the last quarter of 2012 and achieved 0 growth. We spoke to Abdul Bashir from BlackRock Financial Company who tells us if Oldham has survived the recession. 58secs-1min30secs (Abdul Bashir) The economic situation in Oldham is worse than the national average, if we actually think back historically the industry that Oldham was founded, such as cotton mills have been in decline over the past 40 years or so and Oldham has really had to adapt like many other towns to growing their economy in other ways so what I think that means for in terms of the recession, Oldham will eventually survived to recession but it will take more than the rest of the country 1min31secs-44secs: (Masroor) In other news, Whittles Rock Pub which was previously due for possible closure, he reassures us that is going to stay well and truly open. We sent our entertainment correspondent Alex Wild to Whittles Rock Pub.

1min45secs-50secs: (Alex Wild) I visited Whittles Rock Pub to speak to Keef Lawrence on how he supports bands, heres what he had to say. 1min51secs-53sec: (Interview)(Alex Wild) So how many bands play at Whittles on average in a month. 1min52secs-2min4secs: (Keef Lawrence) Well theres live music Wednesdays is the acoustic night sometimes on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the moment and Sunday we have the jam session 2mins5secs-6secs: (Alex Wild) I also wanted to know Do you give young bands a chance to maybe get seen by potential managers and things like that? 2mins7secs-23secs: (Keef Lawrence) Yeah, got a band on this Thursday, Kyle whos actually at the Sixth Form College I believe. 2mins24secs-25secs: (Alex Wild) Do you know what his bands name is? 2mins26-27secs: (Keef Lawrence) Bone Idle. 2mins28-38secs: (Masroor) And finally there has been a lot of controversy over the Oscars 2013 winners of Best Picture, we sent Olivia our reporter to interview members of Oldham Sixth Form College on their opinions. 2mins39-41secs: (Olivia Cuthbert) Argo won best picture award do you think that was the right decision? 2mins42-51secs: (Voxpop 1) No I dont I think Django Unchained because all the characters were well better like the character choices they was really good and the story like was a better concept. 2mins52-59secs: (Voxpop 2) I think so a lot of people think that Django shouldve won but in my opinion I think that was the right decision 3mins-3mins2secs: (Voxpop 3) Yes most definitely I think it out beat Django 3mins3secs: (outro) Oldham Community Radio 99.7fm