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MORE than 80-per-cent of all rugby league in the UK will be played between March and November in 2012 following the decision of the community game to largely follow the...
Date Published 15/12/2011
MUSICAL students at Saddleworth School will be featuring on a TV documentary. John Matthews, who is producing the new BBC documentary “Madness on Wheels”, was so...
RUGBY: EMERSON Jackman didn’t need asking twice to become the permanent coach of Saddleworth Rangers. “The club is in my blood, so I jumped at the...
A DOCTOR was asked by staff at a nursing home to urgently prescribe patches containing a powerful painkiller to relieve the pain of a dementia sufferer, an Oldham inquest heard....
NETBALL: Neville hails impact of new faces NORTHERN Thunder’s National Talent League squad enjoyed three wins out of three at the Triangle Leisure Centre in Sussex....
UNEMPLOYMENT in Oldham has fallen in the last month but one in eight young people are still claiming benefits. Official figures show 7,442 Oldhamers are claiming Job...
ORSA fund to bring in fresh blood OLDHAM RL fans are being asked to put their hands in their pockets to actively support the club’s push for promotion in 2012. The...
THE fight to save the jobs of Oldham’s Remploy workers will reach Parliament today. Set up after the Second World War, Remploy is the counry’s biggest employer of...
ZANDER Diamond will make the jump from tourist to attraction at Anfield. The centre-back is a fan of Liverpool, boasting a Steven Gerrard shirt among his memorabilia...
Oldham Council meeting LABOUR was accused of smoke and mirrors as plans to cut £24.5 million from Oldham’s budget came under attack. Opposition councillors...
HAD events twisted only slightly across the close-season, a different Athletic could have been planning to cater for the threat of Shefki Kuqi this weekend. The 35-year-old...
ATHLETIC have settled on a Friday night date for their FA Cup third-round tie at Anfield. The game against Liverpool will kick off on Friday, January 6, at 8pm. A Saturday...
ALAN Hardy is stepping down as Athletic’s chief executive on health grounds — and he hopes it will coincide with another Wembley appearance for the club. The 61...
CHRIS Taylor believes Athletic’s cup successes this season have brought a buzz of anticipation to the town. And after scoring the goal that sent the club to a...
ROUNDTHORN and St Hugh’s, Holts, are among the country’s most improved schools. They are celebrating after they bettered their English and maths results every year...
PUPILS at a quartet of Oldham schools have achieved some of the best results in the country in this year’s SATs tests At St Martin’s School, the results completed...
POLICE are to step up the search for a brutal killer who remains on the run following his escape from prison eight years ago. Following inquiries by the Chronicle, detectives...
RENEWED HUNT FOR KILLER ON THE RUN PRIMARY SCHOOL LEAGUE TABLES LATICS BOSS TO RETIRE .... plus your 16-page xmas tv guide ...there's more (click story)
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Date Published 14/12/2011
CROSS COUNTRY: CROMPTON House girls roared to title glory in the Oldham Schools Cross-Country Championships after winning the Year Nine and 10/11 categories....
RUGBY: SADDLEWORTH Rangers claimed a 20-14 victory over Oldham St Anne’s in the Howarth Timber & Building Supplies John Burke under-18s trophy final....
Company blasts tariff cut - but the future remains sunny AN Oldham solar-energy company has described the decision to drop “feed-in” tariffs — money paid for...
A ROYTON company moved swiftly to beat the Government’s shock announcement on the reduction of feed-in tariffs for solar energy panels. Transdrive Engineering Services...
Craig Dean, Oldham president of Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce HOW do you measure success? In the business world there’s a misplaced obsession with two metrics...
SCROOGE, Lowry, Salford (to January 7) REAL royalty one week, stage royalty the next. Tommy Steele takes over the Lowry main stage from the Royal Variety crowd and offers a...
GRAB a festive bargain at a Christmas fair and charity raffle after mass at St Herbert’s Church, Braodway, on Sunday. SOUTH Chadderton Methodist Church, Thompson...
TWO women in their 90s were among the 650-strong crowd at this year’s Oldham’s Festival of Light. The event, in its ninth year, was held at the Grand Venue, Westwood, where...
OLDHAM Council insists it will not run out of grit this winter. The local authority has rubbished claims it is planning on using nearly 600 fewer tonnes of salt to cope with...
THE funeral of Oldham-born Roy Bottomley (78), the creator of some of Britain’s most successful television shows, takes place today. The writer and producer died in...
MORE than 3,000 extra children in Oldham are set to benefit from money to help disadvantaged youngsters after the criteria was widened. The pupil premium currently applies to...
