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A hundred Oldham households were threatened with repossession in the first three months of 2012, new figures reveal. Eviction was faced by 12 per cent more people than the...
Date Published 11/05/2012
THE fire service has confirmed no one was trapped in the blaze which gutted the former Broadway Club in Failsworth. Six crews and an aerial platform were called to the disused...
GIVE your car a sparkle, courtesy of pupils and parents from Crompton House School, who will be washing cars at the school to raise money for their “Changing Lives” expedition to...
CRICKET: IT wasn’t the start Heyside had hoped for in the Versasteel Saddleworth and District Cricket League — but captain Nick Campbell is sure things will pick up. The...
Vampirette, Opera House, Manchester GO to this rather unheralded new musical — another Manchester premiere — expecting a sort of musical “Twilight” and you will be disappointed....
CRICKET: THREE games, three defeats. For a side with aspirations of finishing in the top four, Oldham’s Lake Garage CLL campaign has so far been something of a damp squib....
FOUR friends put their foot down to roll up at their school prom. Hathershaw Technology College students George Holland, Tashan Tomlin, Michael Coleman and Ben Finch were...
RUGBY: WATERHEAD joint coach Paul Geener has thrown down the gauntlet for his players to challenge at the top of National Conference League Division Two. His battle cry...
Secretary Andrew Lansley’s decision to veto the publication of a confidential risk assessment of the Government’s contentious NHS reforms is “absolutely appalling”, according to...
After a season with plenty of highs and lows, we look at the prospects of doing better next term. NEVER before has the word ‘budget’ been used so often, by so many, in a...
new figures show absent parents in Oldham East and Saddleworth owe a total of £8,050,900 in unpaid child maintenance — with another £6,960,600 in Oldham West and Royton....
POLICE have released a CCTV image of the man they want to quiz after a woman suffered a fractured cheekbone when she was punched in a Royton bar. The 36-year-old became...
ANGLING: OLDHAM Central AC’s first match of the year was a cracker on Staffordshire water Baden Hall. The winner, Jim Wiseman, netted a superb 69lb of carp on the...
MOTORCYCLE RACING: ASHLEY Beech impressed in the third round of the Metzeler National Superstock 1000 Championship at Oulton Park and was unlucky to be thwarted by a red-flag...
BOWLS: WITH the start of this year’s Oldham Evening Chronicle Bowling Handicap only three weeks away, would-be entrants must act quickly. Entries have been slow to reach...
RUGBY: OLDHAM St Anne’s look to have a terrific chance of progressing in the Conference Challenge Cup tomorrow. Saints, from Division One of the National Conference...
CRICKET: DELPH have a busy weekend ahead. Tomorrow they head to champions Honley in Drakes Huddersfield Premiership, the team who pipped them to the title on the final day...
CRICKET: WHEN Shaw’s overseas amateur Oral Rankine packed his bags for the flight to England, it’s safe to say a pair of long johns were not on the must-take list....
CRICKET: FRESH from one derby victory, Werneth go straight into another local showdown. Having defeated Oldham last weekend, Matt Taylor’s men travel to Royton...
UNDERDOGS FC Radclyffe won the D & J Builders (North-West) Ltd Oldham Sunday League Challenge Cup after beating Coppice United 'A' 2-1 last night. Musaf Ali put Jack...
FOOTBALL: SPRINGHEAD edged to a 3-2 victory over Stockport Georgians in the Bridgewater Office Supplies Manchester LEague Gilgryst Cup final at Hyde FC last night. Mark...
LIMESIDE edged to a 3-2 win over Rifle Range ‘B’ in the D & J Builders (North-West) Oldham Sunday League Martin Buckley Division Two Shield final. Asplin,...
FOOTBALL: Famous King George 'B' 0, Rifle Range 'C' 2 CALLUM Standring scored twice to give Rifle Range 'C' a deserved victory in the final of the D and J Builders...
CRICKET: THE Saddleworth and District League under-15s finally got their season under way with the first round of Leicester Shield matches. Droylsden, Greenfield and...
FOOTBALL: HEYSIDE under-15s swept aside Uppermill 6-1 in the North Manchester Girls’ League thanks to Leoni Harland’s hat-trick, two goals from Kinsa Hmami and an...
RUGBY: WATERHEAD under-15s reached the Oldham Cup final after an 86-2 victory over Milnrow Cobra. Danny Fairfoull crossed four times and Billy McDermott and Ethan Kershaw...
FOOTBALL: FAILSWORTH dominated the Oldham Schools Cup Finals at the Lancaster Club. The Year Sevens beat Royton and Crompton 3-0, while the Year Nines blasted five goals...
Netball: OLDHAM under-16s clinched glory in the National Finals after a last-gasp 32-31 victory over Tameside in an all North-West final in Norwich. Oldham trailed by...
TIME has turned full circle for an iconic Oldham manufacturing business which has returned to its home of 32 years ago. Michael Griffiths, whose father Robert and business...
GOLF: MEET THE CAPTAINS: Oldham BARRY Lewis is following in his big brother’s buggy tracks as captain of Oldham Golf Club. Three years his junior at 40, Barry has...
