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119 Article(s) Found
Mahdlo, Oldham’s £5 million state-of-the-art youth zone, opened to the public just over seven weeks ago. Here Erin Heywood learns...
Date Online: 18/05/2012
AFTER gaining an insight into the way Mahdlo gets moving, reporter Erin Heywood spent another evening at the youth zone...
Date Online: 18/05/2012
Whether in a city, out in the country or perfectly placed by the sea our surroundings continually play a part...
Date Online: 15/05/2012
Martyn meets... Barry King: one man who shot Oldham on to the sporting map
LEGEND is a word too easily...
Date Online: 15/05/2012
Accidents happen on Britain’s roads all the time. Whilst this may be a natural danger of being a road user,...
Date Online: 15/05/2012
THE FRIDAY THING: WHILE self-congratulatory celebrations among Oldham’s Labour councillors were understandable and deserved in the wake of a victory...
Date Online: 11/05/2012
The Chronicle’s countdown to the 20th anniversary of Oldham Sixth Form College tonight features one of its best-known graduates —...
Date Online: 11/05/2012
Martyn MEETS...June Smith, the driving force behind business and council links
FOR 10 years she was one of us. But...
Date Online: 08/05/2012
FIRST a warning: parents of 13-year-old girls (and girls even younger than 13) should look away now.
Some bright spark,...
Date Online: 04/05/2012
THE 72-year history of one of Oldham’s top companies has been recorded in a new book written by Saddleworth author...
Date Online: 04/05/2012
Martyn Meets..... part two of Martyn’s chat with Damian Hughes
WHEN Damian Hughes was invited to accept a professorship at...
Date Online: 02/05/2012
THE FRIDAY THING: IF you come across lengthy wagon trains of removal vans trying to work out how to get...
Date Online: 27/04/2012
MARTYN MEETS... the endearing, charming and fascinating Damian Hughes
FOR a lad who should have been expelled from The Hulme...
Date Online: 24/04/2012
THE FRIDAY THING
The jack-booted march of the health police is coming to a chippy near you.
If you thought,...
Date Online: 20/04/2012
MARTYN MEETS... Helen Taylor, Chief Executive of Oldham’s new youth zone, Mahdlo
ALL roads lead to Oldham for Helen Taylor......
Date Online: 17/04/2012
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...
Date Online: 13/04/2012
THE FRIDAY THING: IT may be true that life imitates art (we have to hope, however, that Damien Hirst is...
Date Online: 13/04/2012
Martyn Meets...Steve Kilroy, the Chadderton BAE plant’s last man standing
THE day is fast approaching when Steve Kilroy will walk...
Date Online: 10/04/2012
Martyn Torr meets... CHRIS HAMILTON
FOR 15 years, he’s kept rugby league in Oldham alive.
Fifteen years . . ....
Date Online: 03/04/2012
THE FRIDAY THING:
WHEN was the last time you sent a letter? You know, with Basildon Bond writing paper and...
Date Online: 30/03/2012
Martyn Meets: Alison Hornsby: A fizzing, frenetic, frisson of unbridled effervescence!
SPENDING time with Alison Hornsby is always a joy...
Date Online: 27/03/2012
THE FRIDAY THING: GETTING married, going to church and shopping used to be the simple cornerstones of everyday life for...
Date Online: 23/03/2012
Martyn meets...Fazal Rahi, man of the people, community stalwart and... taxi driver
PEEL away the layers of Fazal Rahim’s life...
Date Online: 20/03/2012
THE FRIDAY THING: WHAT do I make of the blueprint (or purple, orange, yellow and peach print) of the new-look...
Date Online: 16/03/2012
A CONNOISSEUR of fine wine is not someone you would expect to find in Oldham. but Fitton Hill can lay...
Date Online: 13/03/2012
THE FRIDAY THING: WHAT is it about politicians and talking up the opportunity of waging war?
I am sure they...
Date Online: 09/03/2012
Martyn meets... one of Oldham’s top organisers, Pauline Pawlykiwskyj
JUST getting Pauline Pollythingy to agree to talk to me at...
Date Online: 06/03/2012
THE FRIDAY THING: IT must be the onset of spring, but have you noticed how the papers this week come...
Date Online: 02/03/2012
Martyn Meets... Kevin Shaw in part two of our profile of the Coliseum’s artistic chief
THE future of Oldham Coliseum...
Date Online: 28/02/2012
THE FRIDAY THING: MOST of us can remember the time when children were either boys or girls.
What they became...
Date Online: 24/02/2012
