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AN Oldham-based housing association is to feature in a popular TV series. Neighbourhood Watched is a set of four 45-minute programmes, which includes the work of housing...
Date Published 18/03/2011
OLDHAM has been given the green light to lead the way in how health services are commissioned. The Government asked local authorities and NHS trusts to become early...
The founding principles of the NHS are in danger of being wiped out by Government plans to overhaul the health service, an MP has warned. Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Debbie...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
UK firefighters are set to fly home from Japan after their search for survivors proved unsuccessful. Despite an extensive search of residential and industrial properties in...
RESIDENTS were evacuated amid fears of an explosion when a shed with two LPG cylinders went up in flames. A 50-metre cordon was set up around the property in Crossbank Avenue,...
Compulsory redundancies have not been ruled out for Chadderton workers as BAe Systems sheds staff at its military sites. The company has been cutting 2,447 jobs at nine sites...
Angling: IN-FORM Chadderton ace John Jones clinched yet another win at his favourite Brookside Fisheries venue. The Garbolino Elton rod was drawn on Snake Lake peg 17, where...
THE WAGES of Oldham Council’s top-paid staff have been revealed — with one officer allegedly receiving a six figure pay-off for loss of office. The...
RUNNING: A record number of Royton Road Runners made the annual trip to the Yorkshire Dales for the popular Dentdale Run. Near-perfect conditions helped the 35-strong team to...
A GRANDMOTHER who had her arm broken by a drunken driver has been convicted.. of drink-driving. Susan Burridge (45) of Shaw Road, Royton, was disqualified from driving for 12...
RUGBY LEAGUE: SADDLEWORTH Rangers go in search of a fifth straight National Conference League Premier Division win tomorrow. But Keith Brennan’s men will need to be at...
NEARLY 300 Oldham College students and staff attempted to become Red Nose Day record breakers with the world’s longest conga. They could have ended up with red faces as...
AMATEUR FOOTBALL: UPPERMILL enjoyed a 2-1 win at Holmbridge in the Huddersfield and District League’s Barlow Cup. On target for Simon Tait’s side were Nick...
AMATEUR FOOTBALL: KHARTOUM ‘A’, champions of the D & J Builders (North-West) Ltd Oldham Sunday League’s top-flight, have resigned with immediate effect....
Saddleworth & Lees District Partnership THE chairman of Saddleworth Runners has warned that the fight isn’t over after a last-ditch protest to save the Churchill...
Springhead 0, Wythenshawe Amateurs 1 AMATEUR FOOTBALL: SPRINGHEAD lost at home for the second week running to increase relegation fears in the Bridgewater Office Supplies...
Clergyman stole £14,000 from church WORSHIPPERS have spoken of their betrayal by a trusted vicar who has admitting stealing more than £14,000 from an Oldham church....
NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: LEE Rick is in contention for his first Mossley start when the Lilywhites host Durham City tomorrow in the Evo-Stik League Division One North. The...
Latics’ assistant coach writes every Friday for Chron Sport I DON’T believe that the number of fixtures we have been faced with in a short space of time has helped...
Taxi drivers in on the deal, court told A FATHER and son from Oldham were the masterminds behind a huge drugs supply operation worth well over a million pounds, a court has been...
Drunken assault shame A DRUNKEN mother who attacked a disfigured woman in an Oldham pub because she thought she was ugly, has been jailed for eight months. Rachel Rooney...
SWIMMING: OLDHAM-born Sascha Kindred will compete at May’s BT Paralympic World Cup in Manchester. Kindred, who lived in Limeside and trained in Oldham, is part of a...
STAND by for a colour change if you’re an Oldham RL fan planning to watch Roughyeds at Workington on Sunday. Tony Benson’s men will unveil their new away kit for...
OLDHAM coach Tony Benson insists his players are ready for anything that Workington will throw at them when the two teams lock horns at Derwent Park on Sunday. The Roughyeds...
ATHLETIC boss Paul Dickov has watched his team’s defeat at Leyton Orient again and again . . . and, final result apart, he still likes what he sees. The visitors to...
Sir Alex Ferguson begins his five–match touchline ban tomorrow preparing to abandon the experiment of using Wayne Rooney in midfield. After accepting his punishment for...
MANCHESTER United will face Chelsea in the Champions League quarter-final. Sir Alex Ferguson's side enjoy home advantage in the second leg. The winners take on Inter Milan or...
Roberto Mancini is set to axe Mario Balotelli for Manchester City's Premier League encounter with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. The Blues boss left Eastlands an angry...
PAUL Dickov has spelled out the circumstances which led to Manchester United recalling Ben Amos. The 20-year-old goalkeeper was brought back to Old Trafford thanks to his...
