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A TEACHER accused of touching young boys at school, confessed to a hushed courtroom that he had had a sexual relationship with an older relative as a youngster himself. Neil...
Date Published 06/04/2012
DEVASTATED gardeners have been left counting the cost after heartless vandals caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to their allotments. Smashed greenhouses, toppled...
SOME relief is on the way for motorists with a major project to transform Mumps roundabout into a road junction to be completed in time for post-Easter rush hours. Changes to...
A TOTAL of 63 candidates will battle it out for 20 seats up for grabs in next month’s local council elections. Labour, which has an eight-seat majority on Oldham Council, will...
A ROCHDALE man accused of being part of a child sexual exploitation ring denied being a pimp and said that one of his accusers was “the Devil”, a court heard...
KEANU Marsh-Brown has been handed a strong warning by Athletic manager Paul Dickov. The teen tyro was left out of Athletic's 16-strong playing squad for the last two matches...
ATHLETIC have introduced an under-16’s £10 season ticket for the 2012-13 season. Chairman Simon Corney’s move is another bold initiative to attract a new...
Rugby League SADDLEWORTH Rangers and Rochdale Mayfield break new ground on Easter Monday when they meet for the first time in the Standard Cup final. Manor Park is the venue...
ATHLETIC manager Paul Dickov has paid tribute to the work put in by his opposite number tomorrow. Charlton manager Chris Powell brings his Addicks team to Boundary Park with a...
DAVE Jones is looking to extend a sparkling start to his career as Sheffield Wednesday manager this weekend, by taking two more big steps on the path to automatic promotion....
We've got the plea of a campaigning Oldham widow for a change in cancer screening policy that could have helped save her husband. ...there's more (click story)
AN OVERWHELMING majority of Athletic’s fans appear to be fully behind manager Paul Dickov, despite the poor run of recent results. 94-per-cent of supporters on a...
Date Published 05/04/2012
NEIL Roden has given Oldham RL Club a boost ahead of tomorrow’s derby clash at Rochdale (1pm kick-off). The Roughyeds skipper missed the Barrow game because of a sore back,...
A FEW years ago, I remember Oldham Roughyeds’ then-chairman Bill Quinn appearing near the tunnel entrance to confront his side as they trotted back to the changing rooms...
ONE more win could secure Athletic’s npower League One tenure. But if those crucial three points arrives sooner rather than later, don’t expect captain Dean Furman...
EIGHT points clear at the top of npower League One and with little real sign of letting their grip on the title loosen . . . by any standards, it has been quite a season for...
“THEY were the better team, but our lads gave everything and we couldn’t have asked for much more.” That was the verdict of youth team boss Tony Philliskirk...
DEAN Bouzanis believes Athletic’s players need to self-examine in order to get beyond the recent run of poor results. Since beating promotion candidates Sheffield United...
OLDHAM will go head to head with two of their former stalwarts in tomorrow’s derby at Spotland. Starring for Rochdale this season are former Roughyeds favourites Paul...
YOUTH will be a feature of the Oldham St Anne’s side who face Rochdale Mayfield in National Conference League Division One tomorrow (noon kick-off). Coach Chris Deakin...
OLDHAM is recovering today after an Arctic blast left vehicles stranded in 8ft snow drifts while gales ripped the roofs off garages and uprooted trees. The borough shivered to...
THE votes have been cast and the results are now in as to who will represent Oldham’s youth. This year’s Oldham Youth Council Elections saw 8,584 votes cast...
AN Oldham man at the centre of a child sexual-exploitation trial accused some of his alleged victims of being prostitutes with enough business acumen to win TV’s “The Apprentice”....
A MAN was threatened with a machete as a gang of three ransacked his home. They burst into the house on Falmouth Street, Hathershaw, at around 10.30am last Friday. The...
DUMPED waste at a beauty spot has cost a Shaw man £360. Oldham Council successfully prosecuted Muminul Haque, of Eastway, for tipping household waste at Jubilee Nature...
AN Oldham gardener was spared an immediate prison sentence after he head-butted a doorman at a Manchester motor show. James Cormode (26) turned violent when he wasn’t allowed...
The short, sharp shock of a return to winter brought dramatic scenes to the borough and we have all the news and pictures. ..there's more (click story)
ATHLETIC fear that Chris Taylor may have played his last game for the club after being carried from the field at Brentford with suspected ankle ligament damage. The winger,...
Date Published 04/04/2012
Brentford 2, Athletic 0 IF ATHLETIC thought they had turned the corner with a much-improved display at Notts County, this was very much back to square one. Unable to...
LUCAS Onyango will make his 100th senior appearance for Oldham RL in Friday's derby clash at Rochdale. "Wow, I didn't know that," said the Roughyeds' Kenyan winger,...
