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OLDHAM College students found out what it is like to be in Lord Sugar’s firing line.
“Apprentice” contestant Alex Epstein...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
THE number of people starting apprenticeships in Oldham has almost doubled in a year — and is expected to continue...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
Organisers of the first borough-wide foodbank have received an overwhelming response from volunteers wanting to help, and are to hold...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
OLDHAM’S work to protect vulnerable children has been praised in a national report.
It is one of 14 local authorities...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
SNOW turned Oldham into a Winter Wonderland over the weekend, with gleeful youngsters with sledges taking to the hills in...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
ARMED raiders stole £100,000 of jewellery from a shop while the owners slept upstairs.
The four masked men — captured on...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
Chronicle photograph at Jubilee exhibition
THE public can from today see a Chronicle photograph in an exhibition at Windsor Castle...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
Saddleworth and Lees District Partnership
WORRIED residents living near a planned allotment scheme voiced their concerns about aspects of the...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
A puppy injured in a hit and run accident will not have to have her legs amputated.
Lola, a Staffordshire...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
TRIBUTES have been paid to Saddleworth parish councillor Ken Hulme who has died, aged 62.
The spirited councillor, well-known locally...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
Sara Duncan (44) had been diagnosed with the illness last September but wanted to help six-year-old daughter Lola cope with...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
Natalie’s proud to be making a difference
AN inspirational teenage mum who used her experiences to support other young people...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
AN unlicensed scrap-metal carrier has been prosecuted after his van was stopped while laden with metal.
Oldham Council successfully prosecuted...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
A FAILSWORTH man who was stabbed in the neck in an horrific random attack on a night out in Manchester...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
A LOVING wife who donated a kidney to her critically-ill husband is backing a campaign to boost the number of...
Date Online: 03/02/2012
ORGANISERS of the Whit Friday Band Contests have been given extra money to help with this summer’s event.
Saddleworth Parish...
Date Online: 03/02/2012
SCREENING a full Oldham Council meeting from live over the internet has been declared a success after achieving nearly 400...
Date Online: 03/02/2012
AN Oldham community was today poised to meet a Pakistani official as part of a campaign to end the “brutal...
Date Online: 03/02/2012
THE Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year off gets off to a sparkling start next week.
Town crier Reg Lord will read...
Date Online: 03/02/2012
METROLINK operators say they are surprised by criticism claiming “appalling” behaviour by contractors.
The cross-party accusation was levelled during the...
Date Online: 03/02/2012
A STRUGGLING worker couldn’t believe his luck when he found more than £31,000 had been credited to his bank account...
Date Online: 03/02/2012
OLDHAM Coliseum has been given a £300,000 boost to cover expenditure on running, production and actors’ costs, for three years....
Date Online: 03/02/2012
PEOPLE power saw 80 volunteers clean up Clarksfield as part of a worldwide campaign to rid streets of rubbish.
Members...
Date Online: 03/02/2012
A 12-year-old disabled girl’s mobility car was stolen at a fund-raising event organised by her brother.
The vehicle used to...
Date Online: 03/02/2012
THE culinary skills of four local foodies will be on show to the nation tonight in a much-loved television series....
Date Online: 03/02/2012
PRAISE FOR BIG CLEAN-UP
COLISEUM'S GRANT LIFELINE
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Date Online: 03/02/2012
BROTHERS Stuart and Andrew Lorne are gearing up for the fight of their lives.
The Failsworth martial arts duo have...
Date Online: 02/02/2012
SPEEDWELL, which ran the 343 and 344 bus services in Oldham and suddenly ceased trading, was about to lose its...
Date Online: 02/02/2012
A scathing cross-party attack has been levelled at the “appalling” behaviour of Metrolink contractors.
Lib-Dem councillor Howard Sykes led the...
Date Online: 02/02/2012
THE Labour party has been blasted in ldham Council for a leisure review the opposition claims is “full of holes.”...
Date Online: 02/02/2012
