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BASEBALL: OLDHAM North Stars get the British Baseball Federation AA Northern League season under way on Sunday. The local outfit go head-to-head with Manchester Torrent on...
Date Published 27/05/2011
CALLING all ladies with hats gathering dust in the wardrobe — give them to charity and make a difference. Charity worker Bev Heap has teamed up with Dr Kershaw’s...
FOOTBALL: UPPERMILL look set for a fourth-place finish in the Huddersfield and District League Division One. Simon Tait’s men will be awarded three points after...
OLDHAM RIOTS: TEN YEARS ON SPENDING cuts shouldn’t be allowed to ruin the good work done to create unity in Oldham. That was the warning from Oldham Interfaith Forum...
FOOTBALL: MISSION COMPLETE . . . Oldham Sixth Form under-19s got their hands on the Greater Manchester Cup. The team scored a 3-1 triumph over Marple and Cheadle in a...
CRICKET: GREENFIELD’S Kyle Hogg finished with match figures of 11 for 59 as LV= County Championship leaders Lancashire made it five wins from six matches by completing a...
IT’S 10 years since Oldham hit national headlines with three days of rioting that shook the borough. In the final part of our week-long feature, reporter Richard Hooton...
CRICKET: IN-FORM Delph travel to leaders Elland tomorrow in the Drakes Huddersfield League Premiership as they bid to maintain their unbeaten run. And on Bank Holiday...
THREE fanatical football fans have finally released their eagerly-anticipated book about former players from Oldham’s various leagues. David Ball, David Giblin and Tony...
CRICKET: ROYTON CC’S John Punchard played a starring role as Lancashire Over-50s defeated Durham by 125 runs at Formby on Wednesday. Punchard hit an unbeaten...
A PARISH councillor has hit out at the six-figure cost of a road safety scheme at Delph Primary School. Councillor Ken Hulme, deputy chairman of Saddleworth Parish Council,...
Uppermill eye double UPPERMILL, from the Armstrongs Office Furniture Saddleworth and District Cricket League, are gearing up for a weekend of cup-tie action. Alex...
CRICKET: THEIR spirits lifted immeasurably by two victories last weekend, Royton go into this weekend’s Lake Garage CLL derby double header on a high. First up for...
Manchester City defender Kolo Toure is "relieved" at being handed a six–month ban after testing positive for a specified substance earlier this season. Toure...
NETBALL: NORTHERN Thunder assistant coach Suzy Chapman was stunned to receive the England Netball Goalden Globe award for North-West coach of the year. The modest...
TRUANCY rates have fallen in Oldham — bucking the national trend. Nationally, record numbers of pupils skipped lessons last autumn according to official figures. The...
AN angry mum has hit out at Radclyffe School after her daughter was sent home for wearing the wrong shoes. Year nine pupil Rebekka Ryan (14) was lumped with the troublemakers...
BEWARE the wounded animal! Oldham face a Swinton Lions side tonight who were humbled 112-0 by Super League high-flyers Warrington Wolves in the Carnegie Challenge Cup a week ago...
MANCHESTER United midfielder Paul Scholes has no doubts tomorrow's Champions League final against Barcelona represents a clash between the best two teams in Europe. Pep...
LS LOWRY’s painting The Football Match has been sold for a record £5.6 million at auction at Christie’s in London. The painting, from 1949, which...
ATHLETIC duo Cedric Evina and Oumare Tounkara have been left out of the France under-20 party for next week’s Toulon Tournament. The pair had been named in the...
THE body of a man has been found inside the three-storey building in Rochdale destroyed by fire on Wednesday night. He was one of five people inside Sartex mill, on the...
OLDHAM Roughyeds coach Tony Benson admits his side face a stern test of their Championship One promotion credentials tonight when they face leaders Swinton Lions at The Willows...
TWO cousins have been charged after officers recovered a large amount of cash and cannabis in Oldham. Shazad Hussain (25), of Brook Lane, Glodwick and Asad Hussain (24), of...
THREE masked men attacked a man with a sledgehammer in his Saddleworth home. The violent trio burst into the house in Grotton Meadows at around 11pm on Wednesday. The...
A DRUG dealer, who used his house in Chadderton to store thousands of pounds in drug profits, has been ordered to pay back the money he made from selling cannabis. Jayantilal...
Benefit cheating transsexual’s plea to court A TRANSSEXUAL who admitted cheating £12,000 from the benefits system pleaded with a court: don’t send me to a...
A former Coronation Street star has been convicted of benefit fraud. Ian Mercer (49), who played Gary Mallett in the popular soap between 1995 and 2000, pleaded guilty to...
WALKERS are being urged to stay vigilant after a teenage girl was attacked as she walked her dog in Lees on Wednesday. The 16-year-old girl was walking along a bridle path,...
‘Godfather of Oldham’ jailed A DRUG dealer dubbed “The Godfather of Oldham” is behind bars today after a million-pound drugs ring he ran with his son was...
