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208 Article(s) Found
THE FRIDAY THING: IF ever Oldham is moved to erect a Union Street statue to highlight its debt to a...
Date Online: 17/05/2013
This Thursday marks the 70th anniversary of the daring war-time Dambusters raid which destroyed German dams in its industrial heart,...
Date Online: 14/05/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: THE Queen’s Speech is supposed to point us forward to the coming year in the soap opera...
Date Online: 10/05/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: WE might at last have got rid of the snow storms, but it seems that nothing can...
Date Online: 03/05/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: THIS is not a food review - unless you are a vampire, perhaps - but biting seems...
Date Online: 26/04/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: WE have rather got into the habit of blaming the failings of the legal system- especially the...
Date Online: 19/04/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: TORY MPs, fearful of losing their comfortable seats in the next election (and with Osborne and Cameron...
Date Online: 12/04/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: WE all need friends, but nobody needs them more than politicians, especially the Prime Minister who is...
Date Online: 05/04/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: IT should not have come as a surprise to any local politicians that the Liberal Democrats were...
Date Online: 22/03/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: THEY have been talking about parking in Uppermill since the last horse and cart left the village...
Date Online: 15/03/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: WELL, who’d have thought it? We are well used to allegations of sexual misconduct of one sort...
Date Online: 01/03/2013
Dovestone conifers to be replaced by oak, birch and alder
FORESTRY work is set to transform the appearance of one...
Date Online: 01/03/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: BEWARE! Tax is about to get even more taxing, thanks to the adulterous half of the Collision...
Date Online: 22/02/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: IF the Government had given any indication that it had a sense of humour, we might be...
Date Online: 15/02/2013
Presenter Alan “Big Al” Nield of 96.2 The Revolution writes for the Chron
IF there’s one thing this horse meat...
Date Online: 15/02/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: DOES anyone really know what Prime Minister David Cameron is playing at? Does he know himself, do...
Date Online: 08/02/2013
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Is your school, office or workplace beginning to catch FA Cup fever?
Then why not hold...
Date Online: 04/02/2013
14 years in the job and loving it
CHRIS Davies has been an MEP for nearly 14 years - and...
Date Online: 01/02/2013
Everything about the European Parliament in Strasbourg is big — the building, the number of MEPs (758), the budget, the...
Date Online: 01/02/2013
I am and always will be a great advocate of the police.
Last weekend saw a rather large and highly...
Date Online: 01/02/2013
Dedicated server hosting is a web hosting system whereby the entire server is leased or sold to your company and...
Date Online: 01/02/2013
Win a wedding day to remember courtesy of generous local wedding service suppliers.
For your chance to win this great...
Date Online: 29/01/2013
“KEEP on Runnin’” is an old Spencer Davis song and whenever I think of Chris Davies MEP the 1960s hit...
Date Online: 29/01/2013
Everything about the European Parliament in Strasbourg is big, from the building and the number of MEPs (758) to the...
Date Online: 29/01/2013
THE FRIDAY THING:
ANOTHER week that underlines the fact that we are in danger of going to hell in a...
Date Online: 25/01/2013
Radio presenter Big Al made a welcome return to 96.2 the Revolution on Sunday, more than a year after being...
Date Online: 25/01/2013
We all start to look at our finances in the first few months of the year. The festive season is...
Date Online: 25/01/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: IT’S enough to make we ordinary mortals think that MP stands for money pocketer.
Here we are,...
Date Online: 18/01/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: IS it really any wonder the Church of England is developing a growing army of the formerly...
Date Online: 11/01/2013
THE FRIDAY THING: TEACHERS in Oldham are feeling the strain.
Apparently stress in the classroom is hitting new peaks, right...
Date Online: 04/01/2013
