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GOLF: LAST year’s play-off finalists made winning starts as the new Oldham and District Golf League got under way. Reigning champions North Manchester...
Date Published 11/05/2012
THE next citizens advice drop-in session takes place at Chadderton Wellbeing Centre, Burnley Street, from 9.30am to 12.30pm next Tuesday. Stockbrook Children’s Centre,...
SPORTS BETTING: THE Tournament Players Championship at Sawgrass, affectionately known as the fifth major, gets under way in Florida tomorrow with a stellar field chasing...
The City kit boss and former Latics star writes every week for Chron Sport A SUPERB team effort inspired Manchester City to the all-important 2-0 victory at Newcastle and now we...
OLDHAM RL fan John Davies will put his body on the line to raise money for his beloved Roughyeds. John (41) will run in the Bupa Manchester 10K on Sunday, May 20 with all his...
The Chronicle’s countdown to the 20th anniversary of Oldham Sixth Form College tonight features one of its best-known graduates — US TV star Marsha Thomason SHE may be a...
SCIENCE pin-up Brian Cox is to be honoured by University Campus Oldham. The Chadderton-born celebrity professor, who first shot to fame in the band D:Ream, will receive an...
AN Oldham lorry driver is critical in hospital a week after a crash in Settle near Skipton. The 45-year-old was driving an HGV carrying gas cylinders when his vehicle was...
OLDHAM Council is streets ahead when it comes to road safety spending. Bucking the national trend of slashing road safety education and traffic management budgets, the borough...
Plans for lodge retreat HOLIDAYS in luxury log cabins could soon be a big draw for visitors to Saddleworth. Developers are seeking permission to transform overgrown Green...
OLDHAM was at the forefront of political debate as BBC TV show “Question Time” came to town. Presenter David Dimbleby opened the show saying, “last week the...
FOUR teenage members of a traveller girl robbery gang have been freed by the Court of Appeal — which ruled that locking them up doesn’t help society. The ladette...
PUBLIC-sector workers protesting at pension reforms took to the streets of Oldham yesterday. Union members took industrial action in Rochdale Road, outside the Royal Oldham...
Dickov runs rule over Reeves ATHLETIC manager Paul Dickov has confirmed his interest in Altrincham striker Damien Reeves. Described as a ‘true penalty-area poacher’, free...
COACHING staff and players have had a “pretty serious” look at themselves this week in the wake of Oldham RL Club’s shock home defeat by North Wales Crusaders at...
Latics’ assistant manager writes every week for Chron Sport WE were delighted to end a frustrating season on a high by beating a talented Carlisle side. It was even sweeter...
YAYA Toure has revealed that Roberto Mancini's claims last month that Manchester City had no chance of winning the Premier League were, indeed, mind games. In the dressing...
MANCHESTER United will need a huge helping hand from QPR if they are to have any chance of clinching the Premier League title. Managed by former United striker Mark Hughes,...
Tipster Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s racing: ASCOT 1.55 Miss Noble 2.20 Aiken 2.50 Chatterati ...
A RESCUE package has been drawn up in an 11th-hour bid to keep Oldham’s Remploy factory alive. More than 100 jobs face the axe at the Bardsley plant, which could be...
Date Published 10/05/2012
Dickov keen to keep popular forward ROBBIE Simpson will be offered the chance to remain at Athletic next week. The 27-year-old striker is one of nine out-of-contract players...
The gang of nine Asian men who groomed white girls as young as 13 have gone to jail for up to 19 years. The men were convicted yesterday of conspiracy to engage in sexual...
NEIL Roden can see light at the end of the tunnel in his bid to regain full fitness. It’s five weeks and four games since the 31-year-old Oldham RL captain suffered a...
Police sources said today further arrests linked to the Oldham-Rochdale sex gang could be in the offing. Police continue to deny there was a “racial or cultural” element to...
ATHLETIC’S attendances for league matches increased in 2011-12. The average number of fans through the gate at Boundary Park finished on 4,432 — up on the previous...
POLICE are investigating a petrol bomb attack which destroyed a conservatory at a house in Coppice. Firefighters from Hollins and Oldham were called to Wye Street at around...
Tipster Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s racing: CHESTER 1.35 Kyllachy Star (nb) 2.05 Bonfire 2.35 Brown Panther (nap) 3.05 Ballesteros 3.40...
Nine men were today sentenced to a total of 77 years behind bars as part Greater Manchester Police's biggest ever investigation into child sexual exploitation. The following...
Date Published 09/05/2012
Police and CPS apologise to victim of child-sex ring GREATER Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service have apologised for their “failings” to a victim who...
NINE men found guilty of being part of a child sexual exploitation ring involving vulnerable girls will be sentenced today. The 10–week trial was told that the men...
