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FRIDAY nights will be a fun-filled affair for Oldham youngsters thanks to a new community grant. The Loft 115 Youth Club has been handed £400 by the Co-operative’s...
Date Published 12/04/2011
BABY VIOLET: REPORT'S FINDINGS UNDERCOVER TV: HOSPITAL APOLOGY THUNDER'S BIG-GAME SWITCH TO OLDHAM ...there's more (click story)
The Halle Orchestra, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. The Halle and a fabulous team of hand-picked vocalists brought the stage to life with a selection of favourites from the...
Date Published 11/04/2011
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, Lyceum Theatre, Oldham EDWARD Albee’s drama is a work that often sends professional companies running for the Big Book of Easier...
ALMOST 18,000 homes in Saddleworth and Shaw will have access to super-fast internet speeds by the end of next year. BT has announced that the two districts have been chosen...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
ONE woman’s retirement crusade has spawned a quarter of a century of discovery and companionship. The Wednesday Walkers group celebrated its 25th anniversary in Denshaw, after...
ATTEMPTS to get Oldham’s youngsters living healthier lives have proved 100 per cent successful as the borough’s final school received “healthy school”...
Non-league football: MOSSLEY caretaker manager Gareth McClelland was delighted to see his side earn a 0-0 home draw against Woodley Sports in the Evo-Stik League Division One...
Filming project is a hit PUPILS at Crompton Primary School became young broadcasters with the help of the BBC. They created a film for Manchester Museum to be shown as...
CRICKET: LANCASHIRE’S LV= County Championship clash with Sussex at Liverpool was in the balance as they entered day four. After making a healthy start to their second...
ENGLAND goalkeeper Joe Hart would love to carve out a long–term career at Manchester City. Hart (23) looks certain to continue his ever–present record in the...
MANCHESTER United midfielder Ji–sung Park insists possession counts for nothing in the modern game unless it can be converted into shots on goal. United secured a...
MARTYN MEETS... Martyn Torr talks to Peter Buckley, a man born to lead and succeed — but who, having seen it, done it, run it and owned it, is happy to be a beach bum....
ANOTHER enterprising and promising, yet ultimately-frustrating performance from Athletic left manager Paul Dickov pulling out his hair on the sidelines. Up against a Charlton...
POLICE discovered a large amount of cannabis hidden in the loft of a house in Failsworth. A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of cultivation of cannabis and...
A 37-YEAR-OLD man warned on Facebook that he would kill himself before carrying out his final act, an inquest heard. Jonathan William Day, of Coleridge Road, Sholver, was...
THE PENNINE Acute Trust, which runs hospitals in Oldham, Rochdale, North Manchester and Bury, is the focus of a Dispatches investigation on Channel 4 tonight. The current...
YOUNGSTERS with a head for heights took part in a vertigo-inducing charity challenge to raise funds for the Mayor’s Charity Appeal. It was helmets and harnesses at the...
Athletic 0, Charlton 0 THINKING outside the box might not immediately strike anyone as a suitable strategy to apply to Athletic’s goals problem. It is very much inside...
THE smell of smoke in Denshaw and Shaw on Saturday afternoon was due to a series of moor fires over the Pennines. A water-dumping helicopter was brought in to help some 50...
VICTORIOUS traders were delighted to see double yellow lines which have plagued their businesses finally being wiped out. Mark Harrington, of Mark Antony Kitchens, was furious...
DECISIONS over which players will be offered deals for next season won’t be rubber-stamped until after the Athletic board convenes next week. At present, only seven...
HATHERSHAW College is the latest Oldham school to consider becoming an academy. It has submitted an application to the Department for Education to allow it to start the...
AN Oldham private-hire driver caught red-handed with more than half a million pounds of cocaine in his car, claims he was set up. Ali Shan (32) said he was a naive and...
A POLICE probe has been launched after a blaze gutted two businesses in the Hill Stores area of Oldham. Firefighters were called out at around 12.50am on Saturday after locals...
DEAN Furman is resolutely upbeat about the remainder of Athletic’s season. Another point in a scoreless draw with Charlton takes Athletic up to 51 points in npower...
THE FRIDAY THING: LOCAL election time nears and a bunch of strange beggars (you can change the first vowel if you like) could soon come knocking on your door asking you to vote...
Date Published 08/04/2011
New Dr Kershaw’s chaplain on right track RAILWAY signalman Miles Howarth’s life has taken a new track at Dr Kershaw’s Hospice. He has taken over as the...
