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TALENTED florists used their skills to fill Dr Kershaw’s Hospice with heady perfume, colourful blooms and stunning displays. Oldham Floral Art Society teamed up with...
Date Published 24/05/2011
The City kit boss and former Latics star writes every week for Chron Sport IT was nice for Manchester City to finish the season on a high courtesy of a 2-0 victory at Bolton,...
OLDHAM RL Club have spent heavily on four days of work by turf specialists which will hopefully create a pristine playing surface at the Whitebank Stadium. Based in...
In the latest of his Martyn Meets interviews, Martyn Torr talks to Mandy Tierney: the woman who tirelessly transformed the local RSPCA A DEDICATED animal lover who made Oldham...
RUGBY: Waterhead’s fate ‘in the air’ after last-day loss WATERHEAD face an anxious wait to discover whether they will be re-elected to the National Conference League....
Barca study Red Devils footage Lionel Messi expects a more threatening Manchester United side to the one Barcelona beat in the Champions League final in 2009 as the two teams...
TRENDY Vicky Sowerby is approaching the half-way mark in a charity challenge which will see her wear a different outfit every day for a year. On June 1, Vicky will hit the...
HAVING cleared a two-match ban, Oldham RL Club’s free-scoring utility back Mark Brocklehurst will be in line to return to the side against unbeaten Championship One leaders...
NEW Athletic signing Matt Smith has been backed to take npower League One by storm. Solihull Moors chairman Nigel Collins, who was powerless to stop the towering target man...
Mum Nikki forms a new running club A MUM from Moorside will be pounding the pavements to pass on her sporting inspiration. Mum-of-two Nikki Green, (44), admits to struggling...
Darren Guy, a 37-year-old Oldham healthcare manager, has won the UK Registered Manager Award having already previously won a regional category in 2010. Mr Guy, who has worked...
A TREE which had split in two in high winds led to a major commuter route being closed yesterday. Oldham Road was shut at the junction with Mossley Road, in Grasscroft, at...
MP calls for change in legislation to boost energy income AN MP has called for a change to legislation which would stop a community hydro-electricity project from getting the...
£100,000 could have helped save Beal Hey — critics WASTE bosses have been criticised for spending £100,000 on a community recycling project when they are...
OLDHAM RIOTS: 10 years on THE eyes of the nation, and a sizable part of the world, were on Oldham for those three disturbing days in late May, 2001, stated the Ritchie Report....
Car park charges raise concern STRIKING is a last option for Royal Oldham Hospital staff stung with a 43 per cent hike in car parking charges, according to the Unite union....
AN award-winning policewoman arrested after being found off-duty in a suspected drugs den in Oldham has been released without charge. PC Leanne Murphy (26), from Middleton,...
BEER WALK organisers in Saddleworth have revealed they are working out a three-year plan with the police to secure the future of the event. Talks are being held to make sure...
A THIEF distracted a pensioner while two others stole cash from her home in Failsworth. The man barged past the 74-year-old woman, after telling her he was “here to look...
FIREFIGHTERS were called to Oldham Rugby League Club’s Whitebank Stadium on Saturday evening when smoke alerted passers-by to a blaze. Vandals had broken into the ground...
AN unconscious woman was dragged to safety from a blaze in her flat last night. Firefighters found the 25-year-old woman collapsed in her bedroom after a sofa went up in...
AN Oldham man has been jailed for sexually assaulting a teenage girl — then raping her, years later. Paul Garforth (54), landlord of the Weaver’s Arms pub in...
A QUICK-thinking schoolgirl has been praised by her grandmother for saving her life. Anne Melia (65) says she is forever thankful that 11-year-old Ellie Anne Melia was close...
STAIR-FALL GRAN PRAISES HER ANGEL OLDHAM LANDLORD JAILED FOR RAPE NEW LATICS SIGNING'S BIG HOPES ...there's more (click story)
A TRADITION spanning four generations of a family is being kept alive by a seven-year-old boy. Owen Moss, of Liskeard Avenue, Heyside, proved he has the knack for the family...
Date Published 23/05/2011
THE Christie at Oldham radiotherapy centre has got its own Tait gallery. But that’s Tait as in Chadderton artist Eileen Tait — not as in Tate Modern! The...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards LINGFIELD 2.30 Calendar King 3.00 Ilissos 3.30 I Confess 4.00 El...
BOWLS: GARY ELLIS’S domination of the open handicap scene continued at the weekend when he landed two major events and pocketed £1,200. Both events – the...
GOLF: PAULINE Richardson (Saddleworth) defends the Chronicle Cup at Oldham on Wednesday. Winner of last year’s competition by three shots, she tees off at 9.30am...
CRICKET: HEYSIDE had Bamford Fieldhouse pinned on the ropes with nowhere to go in their Armstrong Office Furniture Saddleworth and District Cricket League clash at Hollin Lane...
