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COUNCIL tax breaks for empty homes are costing Oldham more than £2.1million every year. Discounts given to second homes and properties lying vacant suck millions out of...
Date Published 03/05/2012
Latics director rues missed chance THE FACT that Carlisle United have a shot at making the play-offs this season is a real wrench for Athletic. While the resources of the...
OLDHAM RL skipper Neil Roden could face several more weeks on the club’s casualty list. A scan has revealed a four-inch tear in a thigh muscle he damaged at Spotland on...
PAUL Dickov says he can’t understand those critics who attacked Roy Hodgson even before he had even been officially installed as England manager. Negative press accompanied...
KIERAN Lee headed the winners' list at the club's annual awards night, clocking up the same number of gongs as last season. The dependable right-back — out of contract...
Tipster Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s racing: MUSSELBURGH 2.00 Lord Buffhead 2.30 Limit Up 3.00 Clayton (nap) 3.30 Collateral Damage...
BOWLS: GREATER Manchester women’s team, which boasts several local bowlers, takes on Cumbria on Sunday. The home leg is at Bellingham Bowling Club, Wigan, while the...
Date Published 02/05/2012
TABLE TENNIS: TALENTED youngster Paul King was instrumental in the survival of Oldham in the Premier Division of the Lancashire and Cheshire Table Tennis League....
Boxing: JACK Doughty’s eventual successors at the Tara stable in Shaw have applied to the ABA to become Pro-Am. The move would allow Doughty’s current...
CHRONICLE racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s 20 horses to follow back at the start of the 2011/12 jumps season included such corkers as Champion Hurdle winner Rock On Ruby,...
NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: MOSSLEY player-manager Steve Halford has declared himself happy with his side’s Evo-Stik League Division One North season. The Lilywhites...
JOIN the lmembers of Failsworth Townwomen’s Guild tonight, from 7.30pm, when they welcome guest speaker Judy Spotton, of Allen Smith Tours. Held at Failsworth Town Hall,...
Martyn Meets..... part two of Martyn’s chat with Damian Hughes WHEN Damian Hughes was invited to accept a professorship at Manchester Metropolitan University, his first...
A GIFTED musician, who entertained thousands throughout his life has died aged 73. Royton grandfather Terry Mills, who started working for the Oldham Metropolitan Amateur...
AN OLDHAM duo performed a bald move in aid of disabled family and friends on a night of fun. Locals said “hair you go” with cerebral palsy sufferer Andrea Walkden...
WERNETH Primary Care Centre will go head-to-head with other innovative building projects at the property Oscars. Prizes will be handed out in eight categories at the RICS...
OLDHAM Beer Festival was back with a fizz after a rent wrangle kept it out of the Queen Elizabeth Hall for two years. Around 1,000 real ale lovers turned out for the two-day...
DECISION time looms for voters in Oldham, who will head to the polls to cast their votes on Thursday. Readying to battle it out are 62 candidates vying for 20 seats (a third...
A 52-YEAR-OLD man who kept indecent images of children on his laptop escaped a jail term yesterday. Antony Parkinson, of Hanging Chadder Lane, Royton, pleaded guilty to 17...
DRUGS with a street value of £17,500 were seized during a police raid in Greenacres. A 46-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled drug...
ROUGHYEDS chairman Chris Hamilton has joined the board of Oldham Community Leisure.(OCL) He will be joined by director of Oldham Race Equality Partnership, Tariq Rafiq....
New Bridge will be first in region NEW Bridge will be the first special school in the North-West to become an academy. The school opened in 2005 and has 304 pupils aged...
Setback despite £70,000 support A BRAVE three-year-old little girl’s life-changing operation — which has resulted in almost £70,000 being raised by...
ONE of the country’s leading suppliers of children’s nursery furniture has been targeted by fraudsters. Hollinwood-based Designs For Education was approached by a...
Complaints from people unhappy with the care given to their elderly relatives at the Royal Oldham Hospital prompted a nursing chief to speak out in last Thursday’s Chronicle....
KIRK Millar will get another chance to shine in Athletic's final game of the season. The Northern Irish winger (19), whose contract is set to expire at Boundary Park, made his...
OLDHAM have rescheduled their two games against South Wales Scorpions so they have a match at Whitebank on the Saturday of Super League’s Magic Weekend. They were due to...
The City kit boss and formerLatics star writes every week for Chron Sport THE destiny of the Barclays Premier League title is in Manchester City’s hands. Victory over rivals...
Tipster Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s racing: MUSSELBURGH 2.00 Spruzzo (nap) 2.30 Jubilee Games 3.00 Muftarres 3.30 Chookie Hamilton...
SPORTS BETTING: Roy Hodgson has become the next England football manager. This thoroughly-decent chap has problems pronouncing his Rs — in much the same manner as chat...
