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BATTLE-LINES have been drawn in the fight to save Crompton swimming pool. Councillors voted unanimously to oppose and actively campaign against the closure of the pool in Shaw...
Date Published 11/10/2011
NILEN Vyas is the driving force behind a linking project to help a Third World school. The former Hulme Grammar Schools head boy led the creation of a twinning scheme which is...
A FLOURISHING community amenity is how Evening Chronicle reader Matthew Kennedy describes Singh’s Supersave, London Road, Derker. Mr Kennedy, of The Vicarage, Yates...
ROYAL Oldham Hospital’s League of Friends has set itself a new target: to raise £40,000 in a year, to replace the “Royal Rover”. The regally-named...
MOVIE lovers can look forward to more fantastic films at Gallery Oldham this autumn. After four sell-out family film screenings over the summer, The Small Cinema returns with...
Martyn Meets... Ruth Campbell: former mayoress and community champion “JUDITH is always telling me to sit down and take things a little easier — but I...
FUNERAL For A Friend hit Manchester Academy on Friday October 28 to celebrate the release of their new EP See You All In Hell. A HUSKY voice and expertly crafted guitar songs...
POP MUSIC VIEW: IT’S been 10 years since the general, ear-owning public were subject to the music of shiny, manufactured pop band Steps. And while a few of their hits...
DRIVER SAVES KNIFE MAN FROM HARM PENSION PROTEST BY COUNCIL WORKERS LATICS CELEBRATE TV WIN ... there's more (click story)
WHEN Failsworth School student Sam Lewis lost a close friend friend to leukaemia, he vowed to work to keep her memory alive. That was five years ago, when he was aged 10, and...
Date Published 10/10/2011
OLDHAM Chronicle paperboy Mark Barrow has been nominated for a Pride in Oldham award for keeping his head and acting swiftly in a crisis. The cool customer steeled his nerves...
A serious illness and a horrific, unrelated accident mean 12-year-old Megan Clare has seen inside a hospital more times in her short life than most will ever experience. But...
FUTURE champions of music in Oldham can win valuable bursaries in a competition. For the fourth year running the Oldham Music Service, a part of Oldham Council’s...
OLDHAMERS are being urged to meet up with with their civic representatives during a week of events marking local democracy. Oldham Council leader Councillor Jim McMahon...
AN OLDHAM-based housing provider has been named the best in the UK for customer service. Guinness Northern Counties’ North West-based call centre, which operates from...
AN OLDHAM table tennis club is staging ding-dong matches thanks to financial help. Watersheddings side Pollards will start the new season with £1,000 worth of new kit, a...
NETWORK Rail has hit the road to spread the word about its £560 million plans to transform train travel for Oldhamers with new links across the North through...
A HANDFUL of groups aiming to make a difference in their community are in the running to bag a £6,000 grant. Several organisations from across the borough are vying to win a...
WHEN 26-year-old Chris Frankland died just eight weeks after he was diagnosed with cancer, his family was devastated. The young Chadderton man was fit and seemingly healthy,...
REMPLOY staff in Oldham could be heading for strike action after a below inflation wage rise offer. Union negotiators have recommended that members at the 54 factories across...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
WET and windy weather failed to dampen the spirits of real ale fans who turned out to celebrate the success of Delph’s first-ever beer festival. Around 500 people tried...
IT is hard to imagine what life would be like at Oldham Boro if you took boss Tony Mills out of the equation. Picking the team and training the Vodkat North-West Counties...
A BRAVE four-year-old girl who suffers from a complex form of diabetes had her wish to be a princess granted. Little Sophie Fieldhouse, from Failsworth, who lives with...
IF the last 12 years at Oldham Roughyeds are anything to go by, club chairman Chris Hamilton must feel invincible. He has survived the trials and tribulations of money...
Inspirational club founder Mike hailed as ‘legend’ TRIBUTES have flooded in for Oldham Netball Club founder Mike Greenwood, who died on Saturday after a long battle...
ALEX Walker’s progress over the last 12 months has been as rapid as his performances on the racing track. The 16-year-old, from Shaw, dazzled during his first season in the...
NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: MOSSLEY crashed out of the FA Trophy after a 2-1 defeat at Brigg Town in the preliminary round. Andrew Flett broke the deadlock for the hosts after nine...
OLDHAM’s Kevin Sinfield was proud as punch as Leeds Rhinos saw off a robust second-half challenge from St Helens to claim glory for a record fifth time in the Engage Super...
BOXING: SHAW'S Darren Stubbs blasted referee Marcus McDonnell for awarding opponent Tony Dodson a technical knock-out victory in the seventh round of their IBO International...
