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HOCKEY: OLDHAM remain the team to catch in Division One of the Greater Manchester Women’s Hockey League. The firsts maintained their unbeaten start to the season with an...
Date Published 13/10/2010
OLDHAM could get its new Roman Catholic High School 12 months ahead of schedule if councillors give the thumbs up next week. Cabinet will make the decision on bringing forward...
NETBALL: SHARP SHOOTING from the Oldham under-16s trio made light work of Denton Villa, running away 74-33 winners. Coach Pam Hazelton watched as 14-year-old, 6ft 3in shooter...
NETBALL: AN ENTHRALLING clash saw Oldham draw 45-45 at home to top-of-the-table New Cambell in the National Premier League. The game opened up with Oldham going 6-2 down, goal...
AUSTERLANDS man David Foulkes died instantly from head and leg injuries he suffered in the July 7 suicide bomb attacks, an inquest heard yesterday. The 22-year-old former...
ABIGAIL Griffith saw off opponents up to seven years her senior as she won the Lancashire Trials under-18s title. Competing at St Augustin’s sports centre in Preston,...
Thousand evacuated after digger cuts gas pipe Oldham town centre was getting back to normal today after a gas leak forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 students, shoppers...
NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: MOSSLEY made it through to the FA Cup fourth qualifying round after beating Lincoln Moorlands 4-1 in replay at Seel Park last night. Prolific Mike Oates...
OLDHAM coach Tony Benson spoke highly today of the latest youngster to sign for another year of Roughyeds’ rugby — 19-year-old Scott Mansfield. Like Ben Heaton...
FOUR Athletic players have turned down loan moves away from Boundary Park. Chairman Simon Corney spoke of the difficulty of reducing the number of professionals on the books,...
New stadium ‘essential’ for the future THE FINANCIAL figures make for grim reading, with Athletic chief executive Alan Hardy admitting the club faces...
TONY Hilton enjoys his job at Stanley Road Primary School so much that he decided to delay his retirement. The 65-year-old has been the site manager at the Chadderton school...
Date Published 12/10/2010
A VOLUNTARY session for adults with learning disabilities has been nominated for a Pride in Oldham award. Roman Road Methodist Church in Failsworth hosts a weekly session for...
BEVERLEY Oxley makes it her mission to give struggling students a helping hand. The 50-year-old is a student support officer at University Campus Oldham, offering advice and...
A TEAM which has raised tens of thousands of pounds for charity while entertaining town centre shoppers has been nominated for a Pride in Oldham award. Singers Eddie Ball (64)...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
WHAT KATI DID NEXT: I was flicking through a Sunday supplement this week when I came across the most astonishing pictures. A young lady of, well, let’s...
SATURDAYS are a thing of the past for dedicated Jason Bromley. The founder of Cycle Club Oldham, a non-profit community group, puts in the hard yards to ensure local people...
Royton, Shaw and Crompton District Partnership DOG owners hit with fines in a crackdown on pet poop have protested their innocence. The partnership heard that 53 patrols...
FORMER Hathershaw Technical High School pupils travelled thousands of miles to witness the school band perform in full for the first time in more than 30 years. Old friends...
PUPILS at Oldham Hulme Grammar Schools are forging links with students in Ghana. They are setting up a twinning programme with the Seventh Day Adventist Junior High School,...
MP speaks up for Werneth’s forgotten folk OLDHAM MP Michael Meacher took to the streets of Werneth over fears it has been abandoned due to the withdrawal of Housing...
DARTS: LEE Williams held his nerve to clinch a 6-4 win for OIdham against hosts Little Holton in the Lancashire GMC Super Eights Elite Darts League. Behind on two occasions,...
Chadderton’s new Wellbeing Centre is in line for a top national building award. The centre, in Burnley Street, is one of four designs from the North-West shortlisted in...
TABLE TENNIS: LAST season’s averages winner, Darryl Meredith, was at the top of his game for Werneth ‘A’ in Division One of the Oldham and District Table Tennis...
Oldham MP Phil Woolas has been enlisted to help the fight to stop “X Factor” favourite Gamu Nhengu being deported. The former immigration minister has been...
Phil Woolas has kept his job as shadow immigration minister in Ed Miliband’s new-look team. The Oldham East and Saddleworth MP was immigration minister from 2006 until...
THIS pair of intrepid adventurers are counting down to the challenge of a lifetime. Monica Thomas and Linda Bradbury, are bound for the Great Wall of China to take part in a...
OLDHAM 20, DIDSBURY TOC H 22 RUGBY UNION: AFTER fighting back from 17-5 down, Oldham blew it in the last minute of injury time in this North Lancs and Cumbria Division One...
MINISTERS are preparing to launch a fresh attempt to bring more of Oldham’s 5,000 empty homes back into use. The number of vacant properties across the borough has...
