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Heart of the community

Police briefing . . . investigators go through the procedure

THE true power of a community united could be witnessed in Shaw yesterday as a search team of more than 150 joined in the hunt for Nellie Geraghty’s missing handbag.

Police said they were “astounded” by the turnout as volunteers flocked to hunt for the popular pensioner’s bag — containing her late husband’s ashes. The Shaw 79-year-old suffered fatal head injuries when she was mugged in an alleyway near her home a week ago today.

From mums with babies

Date published: 01/12/2011

Search party in ashes hunt

CORDONED off: where Nellie was found

A DETERMINED community, touched by the death of Nellie Geraghty, are staging a public search of Shaw in a bid to find the snatched bag containing her husband’s ashes.

A Facebook group...

Date published: 29/11/2011

And a fine time was had by all

STEPPING OUT: Billy Suet (Richard J Fletcher), Sarah the Cook (Fine Time Fontayne) and Alderman Fitzwarren (Simeon Truby)

DICK WHITTINGTON, Oldham Coliseum (to January 14)
DICK comes from Oldham, his vessel is the good ship Metrolink, (which sinks, not necessarily ominously, like a stone), and Silly Billy...

Date published: 28/11/2011

Dawn raids swoop

Pair held in 6.30am police storm
TWO men have been arrested during dawn raids to crack down on organised crime. Police stormed addresses in Cambridge Street and Worcester Street, Werneth, at 6.30am today in a bid to find drugs and uncover money-laundering scams.

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Operation Caminada, which involves the...

Date published: 21/11/2011

Faithful four gallop off to pastures new

FOUR police horses who have together notched up almost 50 years of service have been put out to pasture.

The four crime-fighting equines yesterday said goodbye to hard work on the city streets, and settled to a life of leisure.

Three of them helped to police the Manchester riots over the summer — while the fourth, Jack Priday, was confined to his stable with an injury...

Date published: 10/11/2011

Wakey, wakey one and haul

Greater Manchester Police make arrest as part of Operation Rescind 3.

POLICE have made 14 arrests in dawn raids as part of a crackdown on drug-dealing in Oldham.

More than 100 officers from Greater Manchester Police stormed 10 addresses just after 6am...

Date published: 04/11/2011

Alloy, alloy, alloy... scrapyards swoop

Police inspectConnell scrapyard looking for stolen metals.

SCRAPYARDS in Oldham were targeted as part of Greater Manchester Police’s force-wide day of action to tackle metal theft.

Three scrap metal yards out of 18 in the borough were visited...

Date published: 31/10/2011

Classic drama doesn’t disappoint

Laura (Katie Moore) in a moment of happiness in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie

THE GLASS MENAGERIE, Oldham Coliseum
TENNESSEE Williams’s part-autobiographical play is a gentle, faded portrait of a boiling cauldron of intense emotions. And if you think that is a tall...

Date published: 24/10/2011

Entertaining look into the evil of man

GOOD, Royal Exchange, Manchester
I SUPPOSE the ultimate praise for first-time Exchange director Polly Findlay is that she manages to make C P Taylor’s drama so entertaining we forget it is about a once decent man’s rationalisation of Nazism.

And there is no doubt this production is very entertaining, even down to the matter-of-fact, almost jolly way Halder (the very...

Date published: 18/10/2011

Dangerous world of the playwright

A THRILLING combination of youth and experience leads the way in Oldham Coliseum's season-opening thriller, Deathtrap.

The curtain rises tomorrow night on Ira LevinÕs Seventies hit, which ran for years on Broadway and spawned a hit movie.

The cast is headed by . . .

Date published: 08/09/2011

Holiday warning 1950s-style

ARE YOU MR CAREFUL OR MR CARELESS?

Cancel the papers and milk. Lock your windows and doors.

All good advice for the holidaymaker of the 21st century, and back in the 1950s Oldham Borough Police issued a film urging people to take care when they were leaving home . . .

Date published: 22/08/2011

Feelgood evening of fifties romance

Margaret (Christine Cox) and Milton (Robin Bowerman) get to know each other in A Fine Bright Day Today at the Coliseum, to July 9


A FINE BRIGHT DAY TODAY, Oldham Coliseum
IT seems virtually every new play these days is an “event”. If it’s not an essential, life-changing experience, theatres hardly want to know....

Date published: 20/06/2011

Video: Dramatic collapse caught on camera

Dramatic footage showing a fire-fighter narrowly escaping death or serious injury as the front of a derelict house collapsed, almost on top of him, has been released.

But 43-year-old Ashton Fire Station Watch Officer, Paul Anderson, from Oldham, walked away without a scratch!

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said the incident in Smallbridge . . .

Date published: 07/06/2011

GONE IN 30 SECONDS!

Mumps bridge disappears

As Oldham prepares to see the second half of Mumps bridge disappear this weekend to make way for the Metro, here is a chance to look back at how the engineers tackled phase 1 over a bank holiday weekend in 2010 that brought out the crowds to witness the end of an era.

Click for the video . . !

Date published: 19/01/2011

CCTV film released of hit-and-run at club

DETECTIVES hunting a man wanted after a motorist ploughed into revellers outside a Rochdale nightclub have released CCTV of the horrific incident.

The shocking CCTV footage shows a Saab car driving along the pavement outside the Dali Bar in Packer Street and ploughing through a large crowd of people, sending them flying like skittles.

Up to 25 people were injured, with...

Date published: 01/11/2010

Thunder at the double

NETBALL: TITLE hopefuls Northern Thunder followed up a 61-39 defeat of Leeds Carnegie with an equally emphatic 67-38 win at home to Glasgow Wildcats in the Co-operative Netball Superleague.

Thunder, who are already through to the end-of-season play-offs, trailed Glasgow 4-1 in the early stages, but by the end of a high-scoring first quarter had opened up a 19-13 lead....

Date published: 31/03/2010

Thunder show their mettle

Rachel Henry (left ) attempts to get round the Team Bath defence.

NORTHERN Thunder moved level on points with Hertfordshire Mavericks in the Co-operative Netball Superleague table thanks to their 45-38 victory at Bury.

Tips, trips and turnover ball...

Date published: 17/02/2010

Deathly humour

BEATRIZ AYALA talks to the director and leading actor of the Coliseum’s first show of the New Year — a masterly dark comedy from the pen of Alan Ayckbourn at his peak


Date published: 21/01/2010

Gemima Puddle Duck

18th century pastimes in Oldham

Gemima Puddle Duck was born on June 17, 2011, at the Royal Oldham Hospital. She weighed 10lb 6oz . . . click to see more pictures of the little mite.

Date published: 01/01/2010

Fun and slapstick

The coaches are lining Yorkshire Street again as children and grown-ups head for Oldham Coliseum and its traditional pantomime . . . .

Date published: 14/12/2009

Partnership is best in Europe

Gerd Lees, the mayor of Maastricht (left) presents the award to Dave Catherall, principal partnership officer (centre) and John Eley, Oldham’s assistant executive director of partnerships

Oldham Partnership has been judged the best in Europe, from 81 organisations.
Made up of public, private, voluntary, community and faith sectors and chaired by Nick Brown, the principal...

Date published: 25/11/2009

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