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THREE masked robbers stormed an electronics shop in Ashton Road yesterday. They wore balaclavas and brandished a weapon as they burst into Techno Electronics at 4.50pm. One...
Date Published 07/10/2011
BARROW Raiders have been deducted 29 points after being found guilty of breaking rules over payments to players, the Championship club have revealed. The Cumbrian outfit...
£500 licences spark anger PRIVATE landlords in Hathershaw are uniting to oppose a council licensing scheme designed to tackle anti-social behaviour. Angered property...
Boxing: SHAW’S Darren Stubbs looks to conquer the world tomorrow when he enters the lion’s den to face scouser Tony Dodson. Stubbs, who turns 40 next week, takes...
Furman and Black could return for Dons clash DEAN Furman and Paul Black could be surprise names in Athletic’s squad for Monday night’s showdown with MK Dons, manager...
LANDLORDS OPPOSE £500 'TAX' BROADWAY FACING OVERNIGHT ROADWORK CLOSURE LATICS'S DEFENCE EYE TV SHUT-OUT ...there's more (click story)
LIFELONG Learning has teamed up with Crompton Library to deliver free taster sessions starting from 2-3pm on Monday, on a range of topics from food and make-up demonstrations to...
Date Published 06/10/2011
ONE of Oldham’s oldest residents has died just weeks after celebrating her 101st birthday. Mary Brown, a great-great grandmother, who had lived in her Chadderton home...
A MOTHER whose quick-thinking actions saved the life of an elderly cyclist after a suspected crash in Chadderton is beaming with pride. For Jade Whittle (22) has been...
Friendly faces helping to make secondary school a better place to be have been nominated for a Pride in Oldham award. Saskia Edwards and Jessica Entwistle, Year 10 students at...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
RUGBY: WATERHEAD are gearing up for a Friday night showdown against Crosfields in the National Conference League interim campaign. The Group ‘E’ fixture will take...
Crime has paid off for a Chadderton youth project. Cash seized from crooks has been handed over to Project Good Neighbour, based at South Chadderton Methodist Church, to buy games...
POLICE are hunting a man who indecently exposed himself to a woman in Chadderton. The incident happened at 3.10pm on Monday, September 26, as the 32-year-old was walking on a...
RUGBY: NORWAY’S squad for Sunday’s Nordic Cup against Denmark features three players from Saddleworth Rangers. Brothers Lars and Nils Haigh, along with teenager...
WARNING posters are being put up at swimming pools in Oldham in an attempt to stop an overseas stomach bug spreading in the UK. The notices urge locals who have suffered an...
AN Oldham sports fan could be slam-dunking her way to the basketball finals of the London 2012 Olympics as a Games official. Kris Ogden (43), from Moorside, has been...
A WOMAN driver who was almost three times the drink-drive limit and not wearing a seatbelt died after her car crashed into a stone wall. Deborah Downes (40), of Fox Platt...
RUGBY: HOLLINWOOD slipped to the bottom of North-West Counties League Division Three after a humiliating 60-0 defeat at mid-table Eccleston. The local outfit never got out of...
Oldham Planning Committee ENFORCEMENT action is being launched by Oldham Council today unless some signs at the Cash Generator store in Royton are removed. Legal proceedings...
CRICKET: CUT it out. That was the clear message from officials at the Saddleworth and District Cricket League meeting. Clubs were told, in no uncertain terms, to play the game...
HALF-BACK Jamie Dallimore picked up two major prizes at the Oldham RL reserve team’s presentation night and admitted: “I owe it all to my dad.” The...
A BID to create a new Saddleworth parliamentary constituency separate from Oldham has been launched by Saddleworth Parish Council. Councillors want to see the current Oldham...
ACTIONS speak louder than words. While many managers will pay lip service to the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, weakened line-ups can betray their true feelings about the competition....
Val, 61, heads to the gym — and ditches the pills AN Oldham grandmother is proof of how getting fit is vital to health after exercising her way off medication. Val...
Coronation Street star Michael Le Vell, who plays garage owner Kevin Webster, has been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a schoolgirl. The Oldham actor, real name...
ZANDER Diamond knows more than most about cup adventures. The former Aberdeen centre-back has played in a host of big ties in his career. Three years ago, he was in an...
Carlos Tevez's advisor is adamant the Argentina striker did not refuse to come off the bench for Manchester City. Kia Joorabchian insisted Tevez did not refuse to come on as a...
OLDHAM RL have brought in their second experienced forward with the capture of Halifax back-row man Paul Smith. The former Huddersfield Giants star follows 30-year-old prop...
ATHLETIC will examine the condition of Bradley Diallo today, to determine just how long the left-back will be absent. The 21-year-old former Marseille man pulled up in the...
