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OLDHAM RL Club coach Tony Benson has waxed lyrical about the progress being made by his charges in training — and wants to see them translate it into Sunday’s...
Date Published 03/02/2012
DEAN Bouzanis has made his patience pay off. Athletic's reserve goalkeeper this week earned himself a first contract with the club, after spending two months warming the bench as...
BURY striker Danny Hudson is set to start for Mossley in tomorrow's Evo-Stik League Division One North trip to Durham City after completing a loan move to the Lilywhites. He...
FOOTBALL: RIFLE Range ‘A’ skipper Andrew Walker must have broken a mirror in 2005, because he had to endure seven years of bad luck before finally scoring a goal for...
Match of the Day AFC Oldham 2, Whalley Range 2 FOOBALL: AFC OLDHAM came within a whisker of becoming the first side to beat third-placed Whalley Range this season in the...
ATHLETIC’S npower League One clash with Leyton Orient on Saturday has been postponed. A pitch inspection carried out at lunchtime on Friday determined the frozen playing...
PRAISE FOR BIG CLEAN-UP COLISEUM'S GRANT LIFELINE DICKOV'S CALL FOR SQUAD ACTION ... THERE'S MORE (CLICK STORY)
OLIVER!, Palace, Manchester, to March 10 POOR Lionel Bart: his tragedy was that he wrote about 20 songs that stand against the greatest tunes in any musical. Then he went and...
Date Published 02/02/2012
ST ANNE’S Church and school in Royton filled collection boxes and held a Christingle service raising £353.28 for the Children’s Society. A MOBILE youth...
BROTHERS Stuart and Andrew Lorne are gearing up for the fight of their lives. The Failsworth martial arts duo have been inspired by their father’s courage to flex their...
SPEEDWELL, which ran the 343 and 344 bus services in Oldham and suddenly ceased trading, was about to lose its licence, it has been revealed. Last week it was unclear why the...
THE Labour party has been blasted in ldham Council for a leisure review the opposition claims is “full of holes.” Lib-Dem leader Councillor Howard Sykes argued he...
A CHADDERTON man has been jailed for six months by magistrates in Manchester for groping a security guard. Andrew Cunningham (29) had approached the victim in a city centre...
A THIEVING postman from Failsworth who ripped open letters and parcels to steal cash has walked free from court with a suspended jail sentence. Father-of-two Andrew Burke (46)...
Children have been showing their heartfelt support to animals rescued in a blaze which has reduced a garden and pet centre to rubble. Youngsters from Royton Hall Primary...
RUSH-hour traffic was brought to a crawl in Royton this morning as water flooded on to High Barn Road. The road was shut off during the busy commute at around 8am due to a...
POLICE discovered a bedroom brimming with cannabis plants during a raid yesterday. Eight mature plants were found in the second-floor flat in Egerton Street by officers from...
OPPOSITION MPs have warned of “the worst housing crisis in a generation” after it was revealed that more than 6,000 people are waiting for social housing in Oldham....
THREE people have been arrested in Saddleworth following a day of action to clamp down on metal thieves. Police focused their efforts on the Denshaw area, issuing over 15...
A scathing cross-party attack has been levelled at the “appalling” behaviour of Metrolink contractors. Lib-Dem councillor Howard Sykes led the criticism at last...
KATHERINE JENKINS, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. IT is easy to see why this record-breaking, multi-platinum selling mezzo-soprano has quickly become one of the nation’s...
OLDHAM Police chief Tim Forber has spoken out in a bid to quash rumours surrounding racial tension in Chadderton on Saturday. The head of Oldham police has ruled out...
AFTER a setback as painful as the final-hurdle stumble which deprived Athletic of a Wembley final, these are testing times for those charged with shaping a rapid on-field...
TONY Benson is keeping an open mind as to who will skipper Oldham RL Club this season. Back-row man Paul Smith led Roughyeds in last month’s 22-22 SEAT Trophy draw in...
ATHLETIC captain Dean Furman hopes to be back in position to lead out the team soon. The 23-year-old missed skippering the side against Chesterfield on Monday as a result of a...
LINGFIELD 1.20 Betty Brook 1.55 Henry Holmes 2.25 Avonvalley 2.55 Chapellerie 3.30 Rhythmic 4.05 Scatter Dice 4.35 Maslak WOLVERHAMPTON 2.10...
DARTS: PATIENCE was a virtue for Gary Jackson on his Lancashire debut. The 26-year-old Oldham player was picked for the county fixture away to Warwickshire and, after enduring...
RUGBY LEAGUE: THERE is a new dawn on the horizon for the amateurs of Fitton Hill Bulldogs. Fed-up with their continuing battle against the elements, the club are to switch to...
UP THE ANTE: ALBERTAS Run did this column a huge favour when winning the 2010 Ryanair Chase. Recommended at 25-1, he duly obliged and then followed up in last year’s...
RUGBY: SADDLEWORTH Rangers and Oldham St Anne’s showed their superiority in the opening exchanges of this year’s MP Mellor Products Standard Cup competition....
