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SAVAGE cuts to bus services across the country were unnecessary because cash was available in a Whitehall budget, a damning report says today. The Department for Transport...
Date Published 23/02/2012
OLDHAM RL new boys Danny Heaton and Neil Rigby have given coach Tony Benson an early-season headache. They were two of four new pack signings in a plan to give Roughyeds more...
OLDHAM’S town centre Peacocks store has won a last-minute reprieve in a new deal announced with Edinburgh Woollen Mill. All 10 jobs in the Spindles shopping centre shop...
ATHLETIC chairman Simon Corney has revealed plummeting attendances at Boundary Park are having a negative impact on the mentality of the players. Corney decided to take a...
FIVE Britons, including a man from Oldham, are in jail in Spain after police busted a gang smuggling cocaine to the UK in hidden vehicle compartments. All were arrested after...
A TEENAGER was repeatedly raped by members of a Greater Manchester gang who used alcohol and threats of violence to force her to comply with their demands, a court has heard....
A father who abandoned a pet horse suffering from severe foot abscesses has been made to pay thousands of pounds in compensation to the RSPCA. Lee Airey (47) failed to provide...
OLDHAM could soon be playing host to the country’s first National Hospitality Training Academy in a multi-million pound project involving the building of a hotel and...
HOTEL/HOSPITALITY PLANS REVEALED COUNCIL SETS NEW BUDGET OLDHAM PEACOCKS STORE REPRIEVED POLICE PROBE AFTER TEENS ATTACKED plus much more (click for details)
60-something Michael Garside found himself so angry at the mad world we live in today he felt compelled to sum up the frustrations of the older generations in a letter to the...
Date Published 22/02/2012
KEEN book worms aged 11 to 17 can join the monthly Reading Group this afternoon at Chadderton Library and Wellbeing Centre, Burnley Street, 4pm to 5pm. For more details Kate Smyth...
JUDGING of the fourth One Oldham Business Awards has been completed and the three finalists for each of the 10 categories are being informed this week. Each of the finalists...
A BROWNIE guider from Failsworth has been handed the ultimate award in guiding. Kirsty Deakin (25) has won the Queen’s Guide Award, which involves embarking on a series...
BIG-HEARTED businesses have been raising funds for Harley Hesford’s life-changing operation in America. Failsworth-based travel agent Pole Travel and pubs The Anglers,...
‘An honour to work here’ — Tracey, a former Miss BAE THE Chronicle continues its countdown to the closure of the historic BAE Systems in Chadderton with a...
First came Weatherfield, then Walford, now there’s... Millwood THE first virtual soap in the country is based here in Oldham. Our Town — a unique social media...
AN OLDHAM MP is leading the fight to uncover details of how the Government’s controversial health bill will affect the NHS. Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Debbie...
A WOMAN was ordered to pay £1,200 compensation after her dog bit a 10-year-old child. Lynn Bell (48) of Wilson Way, Oldham, pleaded guilty to allowing her dog to be...
A 37-YEAR-OLD man appeared before Oldham magistrates yesterday charged with the manslaughter of pensioner Nellie Geraghty. Mark Royle, of no fixed address, was also charged...
A DOBCROSS schoolgirl saved her mum from being sent to prison — by writing an emotional letter begging a judge to let her go free. Sammy Booth (14), of Briarfield Road,...
AN OLDHAM man is among a group of 11 defendants accused of plying girls as young as 13 with drink and drugs so they could use them for sex. The five girls — aged between 13...
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FOOTBALL: LEONI Harland twice hit the target as Heyside Angels Blues under-16s saw off Denton 4-1 in the North Manchester Girls’ League. Lauren Patterson and Amelia...
SPORTS AND SHOWBIZ BETTING: THERE is something about awards ceremonies which I find disconcerting. Take the Oscars, for example. Yes, I admit my knowledge of the big...
FOOTBALL: CHADDERTON Park came to the rescue of their Manchester FA County Cup quarter-final opponents Ardwick, who had no kit or transport. The under-12s fixture was...
SNOOKER: A FRAME-WINNING break of 40 from Colin Tanahill gave Three Cs ‘A’ the perfect start in their Pet Au Purrs Oldham Amateur Snooker League match against...
BASKETBALL: OLDHAM Titans under-18s slipped to a narrow 77-70 home defeat at the hands of Stockport Falcons in the North-West Conference. And the chance to bounce back 24...
GOLF: MARTIN Beaty and Jack Bottomley-Clift, of Crompton and Royton, teamed up to win the latest Manchester Alliance pro-am event of the winter season. Club professional...
NETBALL: OLDHAM paid the penalty for a poor display in the third quarter as they slipped to a disappointing 61-58 defeat at home to Setonians in the Northern League. Some...
NETBALL: NORTHERN Thunder produced another five-star performance as they swept aside Surrey Storm with a superb 67-48 win. In the showdown of two unbeaten sides in the...
