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ALMOST 25,000 people are still trapped in the broadband slow lane across Oldham. New figures for internet connections reveal significant geographical discrepancies across the...
Date Published 30/05/2011
NEARLY 100 drinkers a week are admitted to hospital in Oldham with a booze-related case. Annual figures from the NHS Information Centre show alcohol was behind 5,135 people in...
DETECTIVES have launched a manhunt and warned young girls to stay alert after two teenagers walking dogs were followed along a bridlepath and one was attacked. The two girls...
POLICE have stepped up their hunt for three hoodies after a 46-year-old man was slashed with a machete on a Failsworth canal towpath. The incident happened on Monday, April...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
FOOTBALL; BRIAN Bakes, the man who founded Heyside Juniors 37 years ago, has died, aged 72. Brian identified a need for a boys team in the Heyside area in 1974 — the...
NETBALL: NORTHERN Thunder face a make-or-break showdown with Surrey Storm at Oldham Sports Centre on Friday (7.30pm). Hertfordshire Mavericks defeated Thunder 55-44 to...
CRICKET: HOLLINWOOD reached round two of the Tanner Cup and in doing so got off the mark for the season. Mudassar Butt’s side restricted opponents Stayley to 128 —...
CRICKET: LAST-BALL specialists Saddleworth inflicted more misery on reigning Saddleworth and District Cricket League champions Bamford Fieldhouse in another match that went right...
CRICKET: ROYTON CC professional Luke Procter scored 45 from 77 balls as Lancashire made 313 in their first innings on the opening day of their LV= County Championship match in...
CRICKET: WERNETH bounced back to top form with a superb Lake Garage CLL victory over high-flying Littleborough at the Coppice. Boro arrived at the Coppice in second place, hot...
CRICKET: ROYTON made it successive Lake Garage CLL derby victories at the weekend thanks to a convincing seven-wickets defeat of Oldham in a rain-hit match at the Pollards....
CRICKET: STEVEN Howard and Peter Skuse — two of Saddleworth’s wily campaigners — combined to break Droylsden’s hearts in a Tanner Cup encounter at a gusty...
SWINTON boss Steve McCormack was quick to laud an Oldham performance which gave the Lions a massive fright. “This was the best game we’ve had all year,” he...
Swinton 18, Oldham 16 Big Phil is the difference as Oldham’s heroes push high-flyers to the limit UNLUCKY Oldham came within a touchline’s width of inflicting a...
PATRICE Evra wants the chance to tackle Barcelona again in next season’s Champions League final. After suffering their second defeat on such an occasion in three years...
ATHLETIC are considering legal action against former player Joe Jacobson after the full-back suggested on a social networking website that the club’s players had not been...
MICK Diveney has walked out of Oldham RL Club after losing his scrum-half spot to Carl Forber. On-loan Forber was not allowed to play in Friday’s 18-16 defeat at Swinton...
Striker vows to return ‘all guns blazing’ WARREN Feeney has branded his first season with Athletic a “big disappointment” and says he wants a chance to...
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LATICS striker Dean Smalley has left the club. Smalley (24), who spent most of the season out on loan, first at Rochdale and then Chesterfield, has agreed a deal to join Oxford...
Date Published 27/05/2011
AN OLDHAM MEP believes “bumblebee motorways” could be the key to a flowery future. Lib Dem Euro-MP Chris Davies say these are strips of wildflowers that should be...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards HAYDOCK 2.05 Zuider Zee (nap) 2.35 Murbeh 3.05 Crystal Capella...
CHRONICLE PAPERCHASE PUPILS at Hey with Zion Primary School are making headlines in the Chronicle Paperchase competition. We are asking primary schools to collect as many...
ANGLING: TOP spot in the first Monarch AC members’ contest on Monarch Lodge was occupied by Pete Molloy. His superb silver fish net included ide, skimmers and roach...
ATHLETICS: MIKE Mannings, in his first event over a distance of 10 miles, finished an excellent 29th in the Llandudno road race. High winds made life difficult for 1,000...
FIT as a fiddle Sarah Taylor is raising a glass today on her 100th birthday. The sprightly centenarian, born in 1911, will be celebrated with a glass of bubbly and a telegram...
BOWLS: GARY Ellis defends his Waterloo Spring Handicap title in Blackpool on Sunday. The Nimble Nook and Tonge star, widely acknowledged as the game’s top player,...
BOWLS: GARY Coverdale will begin the defence of his Oldham Evening Chronicle Bowling Handicap title at Royton on Friday, June 10. Coverdale (North Chadderton), who beat...
FROM baby opera to giant robots, there’s something for everyone at Festival Oldham this weekend. The borough’s annual celebration of art and entertainment will...
