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Getaway blunder is video smash

SHOPPERS look on as the hooded man gets up, falls twice and finally runs off.

A SUSPECTED shoplifter has been caught on video being flung into the air by a car as he ran from a local supermarket.
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Date published: 18/10/2012

BLAZE: a fire ignites just five minutes after firefighters begin their staged chip-pan inferno

Ban the pan!

An 83-year-old Royton woman was just seconds away from a blaze ripping through her home.

Catherine Dunn’s experience shows how just one small lapse in concentration can lead to a fire...

Date published: 20/06/2012

That Alfie, he does go on a bit...

Alfie, Grange Arts Centre
The Coliseum’s co-production of Bill Naughton’s problematic play-turned movie-turned novel finally arrives in Oldham after touring since January.

And it’s still problematic — as is the other show from the same early-Sixties period over at the Royal Exchange, “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning”.

Both feature a predatory male being what he is...

Date published: 13/04/2012

Moorland pause for Holmes: Gwynfor Jones plays the famous detective in the Coliseum’s evocative production of The Hound of the Baskervilles

Tricks of the lighting..

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
(Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, to Saturday)

BOUND over the moor — albeit Saddleworth not Dartmoor — and the out-and-about Coliseum springs up in...

Date published: 14/03/2012

Antony Eden (Tristam, left), John McAndrew (Roland) and Ben Porter (Mark, right) in a spot of pyjama bother in Taking Steps

Grange Ayckbourn an all-round hit

TAKING STEPS, Coliseum at Grange Arts Centre, to March 10

IT is easily well over a decade since I last reviewed a show at Grange Arts Centre, and it’s a racing certainty it wasn’t...

Date published: 20/02/2012

Police briefing . . . investigators go through the procedure

Heart of the community

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...

Date published: 01/12/2011

CORDONED off: where Nellie was found

Search party in ashes hunt

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

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

And a fine time was had by all

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

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

Wakey, wakey one and haul

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

Police inspectConnell scrapyard looking for stolen metals.

Alloy, alloy, alloy... scrapyards swoop

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

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

Classic drama doesn’t disappoint

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

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

Feelgood evening of fifties romance


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

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