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MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini wants Mario Balotelli to raise his game — even though the striker has an impressive scoring ratio in his first season at...
Date Published 02/03/2011
MANCHESTER United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will turn to Wes Brown to fill the defensive void left by the suspension of Nemanja Vidic following the Serbian's dismissal in last...
Winger to miss Challenge Cup tie and Championship One opener OLDHAM RL right-winger Lucas Onyango was suspended for two matches and fined £50 by the RFL disciplinary...
STRIKE duo Reuben Reid and Ryan Brooke had a chance to impress today as Athletic’s reserve team took on Morecambe at Stalybridge. The pair started the totesport.com...
BOGUS BUILDER STEALS FROM PENSIONER PROTEST OVER CHURCHILL FIELDS PLAN BACKING FOR NEW ALLOTMENTS SCHEME HOLIDAY FUEL SURCHARGE BLOW . . . for all these stories...
TONIGHT: James Vincent McMorrow — Castle Hotel; Ray Lamontagne and The Pariah Dogs — Bridgewater Hall; Moishe’s Bagel — Band on the Wall; Vessels —...
Date Published 01/03/2011
A FORMER Oldham magistrate who died last week has been praised for his work in the town. Tributes have been paid to George Halkyard (84), a printer at the OIdham Chronicle in...
OLDHAMERS will soon be asked to fill in a detailed questionnaire in a bid to shape the future of the borough. Reporter DAWN MARSDEN takes a closer look at the £482 million...
A STUDENT is hoping for maximum exposure from a national photography competition. Sarah Jackson (18) from Bridgewater Street, Oldham, who is in her first year studying...
AROUND 30 residents attended a meeting to discuss concerns about plans for a new academy in Royton. The Question Time-style talking shop at the Oddies Club, Union Street, was...
Now Deborah Woodman has gone one better — by spending six years studying pubs for a PhD at Leeds Metropolitan University. But it is not quite the dream task that it...
THE mastermind of a “slick and sophisticated” personal injury fraud went overnight from being a waiter to renting a £1,300-a-month flat above the Hilton hotel, a...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
A SEX offender has appeared in court after police found a stash of vile pornographic images involving animals under his bedsheets. Peter Barnett (39), of Chamber Road, Oldham,...
TABLE TENNIS: LEADERS Glodwick suffered a first defeat in two years when they lost 8-2 against a strong Saddleworth team in Division One of the Oldham Table Tennis League....
POLICE have released an e-fit of a bogus taxi driver who tried to rape a woman in Milnrow. The 52-year-old victim was on Kiln Lane trying to flag down a taxi sometime between...
RUGBY UNION: OLDHAM firsts scored four tries and picked up a bonus point in a 26-17 triumph over visitors Whitehaven in the North Lancs and Cumbria Division. The victory at...
A FORMER chef who ran at two people with a hammer escaped prison after a judge was told he is now a changed man — and his girlfriend has forgiven him. Bradley Porter, of...
Saddleworth Parish Council PLANS to remove the running track from Churchill playing fields in Greenfield are not set in stone according to the councillor spearheading the scheme...
Pupils will be studying in the new Mossley Hollins High School from tomorrow as the £22 million building opens fully for lessons. It has been built on the playing fields...
RUGBY LEAGUE: A LATE wobble could not prevent Waterhead picking up a third win from four in National Conference League Division Two. The 20-18 home triumph over Crosfields was...
Authority plan to slash number of councillors by a third SLASHING the number of councillors in Oldham by a third will make the local authority leaner, more efficient and save...
AN HEROic dog from Oldham that helped save lives in the Haiti earthquake is one of five finalists competing for the title of Britain’s best dog. Echo, the seven-year-old...
The City kit manager and former Latics star writes every week for Chron Sport MANCHESTER City’s 1-1 draw with Fulham at Eastlands was a disappointing result, and we did...
FORMER paratrooper Danny Fitzsimons, who was jailed for 20 years in Iraq yesterday for killing two security guard colleagues, is threatening to take his own life, according to his...
BOXING: ATHLETIC might have failed to pack a punch at the weekend when they lost 5-0 to Peterborough United, but a couple of familiar faces from the boxing world at least gave...
THE ashes of an Uppermill woman were buried in the wrong grave after a parish council mix-up. Grieving husband Brian Iball had his wife Erica’s ashes interred at...
NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: MOSSLEY manager Shaun Higgins has decided to hand Chris Hall a place in his starting 11 tonight when the Lilywhites host Prescot Cables in the Evo-Stik League...
WHETHER or not he plays at Chelsea tonight, and whether or not Manchester United win, this will still be a significant week in the life of Ryan Giggs. Tomorrow will mark 20...
JOHN Gillam, the Oldham RL winger, suffered a fractured eye socket and a broken nose near the end of the 14-4 Northern Rail Cup defeat by Whitehaven. It was evident when he...
