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NEW CINEMA VISION FOR OLD TOWN HALL 20 DRUG DEALERS BEHIND BARS DICKOV LOOKS TO INSPIRE LATICS ... there's more (click story)
Date Published 02/03/2012
LINGFIELD 2.10 Red Somerset 2.45 Princess Lexi 3.20 Za’Lan 3.50 Jimmy Ryan 4.25 Homeward Strut 5.00 Aqua Ardens 5.30 Stag Hill...
Date Published 01/03/2012
Norma, Opera North at the Lowry THIS first production of Bellini’s masterpiece in over 20 years comes with warning — well, to singers, anyway. If the production...
HANDBALL: NEM HAWKS came within seconds of ending Liverpool Wolves’ 100-per-cent record in the open-age Development League (North), losing 21-20 at Birchwood. The...
OLDHAM Netball Club’s junior section are on course for a national double. The under-14s and under-16s sides are through to the national finals, which take place in Bath...
OLDHAM College students have triumphed at an Oscar-style ceremony for young film-makers in the North-West. They beat hundreds of entries from schools and colleges to emulate...
Up The Ante: THE Cheltenham Festival is less than a fortnight away and, as usual, some big-name contenders have fallen by the wayside. Fingal Bay (Neptune Novices’...
FOOTBALL: AVRO manager Phil Brown has called on his players to do amateur football proud in tomorrow night’s Manchester Challenge Cup final against East Manchester at...
A TOTAL of 75 Oldham teenagers will do “national service” this summer, in a huge expansion of a scheme championed by David Cameron. The National Citizen Service...
Part two of KEVIN RICHARDSON’s look at the new season head SADDLEWORTH: EMERSON Jackman has sent out a clear message to his Saddleworth Rangers side in the build up to the...
A LIFETIME of nurturing Anglo-German relations has seen a Saddleworth grandma bestowed with one of her country’s highest honours. Baerbel Grayson has been awarded the...
Soap star helps boost appeal A “CORONATION Street” star has been inspired by a young Royton girl battling leukaemia. Ryan Thomas, who plays Jason Grimshaw in the...
The amateur game has joined the rugby league summer revolution Here KEVIN RICHARDSON looks ahead to the new season Oldham St Anne’s CHRIS Deakin, back at the...
CRICKET: FOR the second time in three years, Oldham CC’s participation in the Lake Garage CLL is in doubt. In April, 2009, a last-gasp U-turn saw the club decide to...
MYSTERY still surrounds the death of a man who died in Oldham town centre from a fatal head injury — because a crucial witness failed to attend his inquest yesterday....
MATT Smith may have to start shopping for a tight-fitting suit with attached cape soon. Athletic's giant striker has only started three league matches in this, his first...
STEVE Kilroy has the emotional and unenviable task of handing over the keys to the end of an era in Oldham aviation. The BAE Systems site manager, alongside a small number of...
ATHLETIC will be under no illusions as to the size of their task in trying to topple Sheffield United this weekend. Blades manager Danny Wilson kicked off the season with a...
MARK Brocklehurst may have his first game of the season for Oldham RL in Sunday’s tough Northern Rail Cup clash at Keighley Cougars (2pm kick-off). He was the...
THE father of a teenage victim of an alleged child- abuse gang in Greater Manchester, told a court that he joined the British National Party (BNP) after what happened to her....
Dickov’s cry to spread play ATHLETIC boss Paul Dickov will drill into his players the need to shift the ball wide, quickly, as he prepares for the daunting task of taking...
A CHADDERTON man has evaded jail after admitting having a stun gun at his home and £2,000 of amphetamine in his work van. Self-employed heating engineer Kevin McGuinn...
ARMED thugs who smashed their way into a Saddleworth home were caught by police after dropping their car keys as they fled. Dario Eastcroft (19) and Jack Lofthouse (18) went...
MARK Royle (37) of no fixed abode appeared at Manchester Crown Court yesterday charged with the manslaughter of Shaw pensioner Nellie Geraghty. The charge follows the death of...
HEALTH chiefs have defended the use of a controversial TV and phone system which charges its patients more than prisoners to watch TV. Patients using the bedside TV system at...
Weapons and drugs seized DRUGS, weapons, cash and cars were seized in a police crackdown on organised crime. Officers from Operation Caminada raided a house on Frederick...
POLICE arrested two people in a day of action in the St James’s ward of Oldham. A suspected stolen BMW was recovered and 22 cannabis plants and 11 large bags of dry...
THREE staff saved the life of a pupil who collapsed at North Chadderton School. Quick-thinking pastoral assistants Joanne Kelly, Sarah Byatt and Mel Cunningham performed CPR...
One Oldham Business Awards 2012 FOLLOWING a marathon session judging a record number of entries, the shortlists have been announced for the 10 categories for the fourth One...
Date Published 29/02/2012
Counting down to the final closure of Chadderton’s famous BAe factory THE end of aircraft manufacturing in Chadderton took place seven years ago. This Chronicle picture show...
