Oldham Evening Chronicle

Our newspapers

The Oldham Evening Chronicle building in Union Street.

The Oldham Evening Chronicle, owned by Hirst Kidd and Rennie Ltd., is published five nights week and serves the people of Oldham, Lancashire, UK.

The current Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) figures are available at www.abc.org.uk. Copies are sold throughout the seven districts of the Oldham Metropolitan Borough which has a population of about 220,000.

As one of the few remaining family-owned daily newspaper publishers in the country, the Evening Chronicle has its pulse on community affairs throughout Oldham — from weddings to scandals, council news to murders. If you don't read the Chronicle, you won't know what's happened, or what's going to happen !

Chronicle Weekend is the company's free newspaper. It is printed and distributed to over 60,000 homes in Oldham every Thursday.

Contact Information

Oldham Evening Chronicle


172 Union Street
Oldham
OL1 1EQ

Tel: 0161 633 2121

Fax: 0161 627 0905

Opening times

Advertising counter: 8.30am-5pm, Monday-Friday

Promotions and Chronicle Travel: 8.30am-5pm, Monday-Friday

Teleads, 0161 622 2121: 8.30am-5pm, Monday-Friday

Newsdesk: 0161 622 2111: 7am-5pm, Monday-Friday