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A CHARISMATIC initiative to get young people into drama is set to take centre stage at Oldham Coliseum. The budding performers from the Sholver and Moorside area are...
Date Published 07/07/2011
A PAIR of intrepid Saddleworth teenagers have set sail on an epic mission. Saddleworth School students Finlay Hayes and Eleanor Davies, both 16, cast off from...
A GARDEN Suburbs designer who entered the Royal Horticultural Show is exhibiting his work a little closer to home. Daisy Nook Garden Centre offered Christopher Tessier (40) a...
AN Oldham College student who was made homeless while studying for his GCSEs has won a dream place at a top dance school. But Hayden Burns, who lived in hostels for more than...
CRICKET: THE Saddleworth and District Cricket League are facing a serious shortage of umpires. The league requires 24 for every match-day, but numbers on some occasions this...
A PAIR of young treasure hunters made a staggering discovery as they struck lucky. Brothers Philip (11) and Louis Milburn (9) were heading for a fun day with their dad on the...
CRICKET: THREE local teams will tomorrow night bid for a place on finals day in the John Willie Lees Twenty20 Competition. Werneth, Crompton and Royton will all feel they have...
GRAHAM Henry Frederick Turner (31) of Fairview Avenue, Wallasey, appeared at Oldham Magistrates Court yesterday charged with harassment and public nuisance. The charge of...
Boxing: ERIC Noi is predicting fireworks at tomorrow night’s “Oldham v the rest” amateur boxing show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Noi, who runs Oldham Boxing...
PAUL Scholes could have pulled on an Athletic shirt after all — in a pre-season friendly. The club put the plan to the retired Manchester United ace, which would have...
TWO women took a boy without his mother’s permission — leaving her to frantically search for him. Zoe Anne Maguire (21), of Furness Avenue, Alt, and Ellen Heap...
TRUST Oldham is seeking new faces and fresh ideas. A host of membership offers have been brought together in order to try to stimulate a recruitment drive which, it is hoped,...
A FORMER Hulme Grammar School pupil is tipped to become the top designer at world-famous fashion label Dior. Bill Gaytten is being touted as the replacement for disgraced...
PLANS for Oldham’s Ronnie Heffron to fight twice in a week have been scrapped. The 20-year-old welterweight was due to warm-up for his clash with Barrie Jones with a...
OLDHAM Council leader Jim McMahon has been urged to support an appeal to break-up the Pennine Acute Trust. The Trust runs the Royal Oldham Hospital as well as hospitals in...
OLDHAM councillor Derek Heffernan is calling on Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s help in bringing the News of the World to justice. In a letter to the high-profile...
MPs have called for heads to roll at the top of scandal-hit News International as the phone-hacking scandal was debated in Parliament. Both Oldham West and Royton MP Michael...
OLDHAM’S recent tour cycling event proved a wheely big money-spinner and tourism boost for the town. Around £100,000 was spent in the town centre on the day of the...
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Dazzling dresses, sharp suits and smart shoes mean it must be School Prom time. Teenagers from the Waterhead Academy’s Roxbury Campus were putting on the style for their...
Date Published 06/07/2011
ALL SMILES... Sir Alex Ferguson teams up with Kirsty Howard to launch exciting plans for Francis House. A BRUSH with the stars was in store for Oldham reverend David Ireland...
A YOUNG dancer from Hollinwood has leapt into a special English Youth Ballet production. Clarissa Salt said she was delighted to have made it through auditions to appear in...
THE FUTURE of Oldham’s former Conservative Club could be sealed by the end of the week. The Union Street property failed to attract a buyer at an auction last Thursday,...
A DISUSED building in Hathershaw could soon reopen to help young people who have complex health and learning disabilities. Boston House, a former Old People’s home...
OLDHAM is doomed to remain second-class as far as the railway is concerned. Operator Northern Rail has admitted that although there are plans to bring in extra carriages to...
A NEW town-centre car park has opened on the site of the former Cannon Street Health Centre. The council bought the land when it became redundant following the opening of...
£5m big push to create new cycle centres GREATER Manchester will be handed almost £5 million to kick-start a revolution in cycling across the region. The...
MORE than £3 million of council tax still remains uncollected across Oldham. According to figures released by the Conservative party, Oldham Council collected £74...
A JEALOUS husband went after his love rival with a machete when he thought his wife was having an affair. Omer Rasheed (28) flew into a blind rage when he believed he had...
A MAN accused of gunning down murder victim Junaid Khan told a drug-dealer pal that he had done it, a court heard. Milad Finn is alleged to have used a machine gun to shoot...
