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BEATS: CALIFORNIAN rockers Black Rebel Motorcycle Club bring their unique brand of blues garage folk to Manchester Academy on Sunday. The band, which formed in 1998, takes its...
Date Published 30/11/2010
RUGBY: IT IS ‘as you were’ for local sides in the National Conference League after frozen pitches wiped out the playing programme. Saddleworth Rangers were due...
RUGBY: OLDHAM official Robert Hicks has become one of the game's leading referees after taking up a place in the RFL's match officials squad. The 29-year-old will now...
WHAT KATI DID NEXT: THAT time of year is here again; let’s head off up the Yellow Brick Road towards Rapunzel’s tower, where we’ll find Robin Hood trying to...
FOOTBALL: MOSSLEY’S home game against Leigh Genesis tonight, in the Evo-Stik League Division One North, has been postponed due to the snow.
CRICKET: A MOVE to switch to a two-division Lake Garage Central Lancashire League has been rejected. For the second year in a row, Norden’s proposal was defeated at...
OLDHAM Roughyeds chairman Chris Hamilton hopes a difficult draw in the Northern Rail Cup will aid the club’s preparations for the league season that follows it in 2011....
TALENTED photographers captured the art of music in a stunning exhibition. More than 100 Waterhead Academy pupils showcased their prints in the Urban Sound in Pictures show at...
OLDHAM have snapped up their second player from the stricken Blackpool Panthers outfit in 23-year-old centre Tom Woodcock. The former Leigh Centurions player arrives at the...
Icy conditions may wipe out Walsall clash THE BIG freeze could put paid to Athletic’s trip to Walsall on Saturday. Paul Dickov’s men are in the midst of a run...
A BUS company is playing Santa by offering football kits to two lucky youth teams. First, Greater Manchester’s biggest bus company, is asking under-16s teams in the area...
A FESTIVE celebration for all the family saw locals brave the cold conditions to see the Christmas lights switch-on in Chadderton. Families gathered at Firwood Park as Father...
A solid silver cup has been returned to Hulme Grammar School 102 years after it was last won on the athletics field. The foot-high inscribed trophy was presented to Joel...
BRITAIN has the most profoundly dysfunctional banking system of any G7 country and must be overhauled. That’s the view of Oldham West and Royton MP Michael Meacher...
McDONALD’S failed to remove racist graffiti from its Huddersfield Road restaurant despite a string of complaints. Now the company has apologised and taken action, after...
Move spells end for congestion charging THE Government has signalled the death knell of congestion charging by telling Greater Manchester — where the idea was crushed by...
THE long arm of the law is cloaked behind moustachioed disguise throughout Royton and Shaw. For police officers and police community support officers have been growing...
£44m super centre ‘fantastic’ for patients A GOVERNMENT minister has hailed investments at the Royal Oldham Hospital for improving patient care. Care...
OLDHAM residents are being urged to keep safe and stock up on medical essentials as wintry weather is forecast for the country all this week. Icy roads and freezing...
Thefts from cars have gone down by almost a quarter compared with last year. But police say motorists still need to stay vigilant and stop leaving valuables on show —...
A YOUNG woman who feared she was going to be killed when she was robbed by a hammer-wielding maniac in Moorside has gone public to try to get him caught. Toni Charlesworth,...
A fatal accident on the M62 caused traffic chaos for drivers heading into Oldham. The accident happened near junction 23 at Huddersfield shortly before 1.15pm yesterday. The...
Winter arrives with a vengeance HEAVY overnight snow caused severe disruption across the borough today to add to the misery of the big chill blowing in from the Arctic. Many...
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SNOW! - HERE WE GO AGAIN! MINISTER VISITS OLDHAM HOSPITAL CLL REJECT DIVISIONS SPLIT ...there's more (click story)
LINGFIELD 12.40 Zed Candy 1.10 Dancing Freddy 1.40 Bilko Pak 2.10 Young Dottie 2.40 Flag of Glory 3.10 Espy 3.40 Rio Royale SOUTHWELL 1.00...
Date Published 29/11/2010
Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester FOR conductor John Wilson, painstakingly recreating the scores of classic MGM films, lost forever when...
RUGBY UNION: OLDHAM RU’s North Lancs and Cumbria fixture at Aspatria was postponed due to frozen conditions in Cumbria. The Manor Park club’s second, third and...
The art of... NEGOTIATION: Negotiation is a way of finding agreement and common ground. It’s a route to compromise, a way of resolving conflicts. It’s important in...
NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: THE non-league schedule fell foul to the plummeting temperatures at the weekend. Mossley’s trip to Salford City in the Evo-Stik League Division One...
