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ANGLING: A LATE charge clinched victory for Jeff Isaacs in the last of the Oldham Central AC Championship matches at High Heyes’ number one lake. Isaacs was among...
Date Published 03/09/2010
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards HAYDOCK 2.00 Dancing David 2.30 Strike Up The Band 3.05 Kansai...
Rugby starlet died in 100ft fall at Cornish resort A PROMISING young rugby player from Delph fell to his death after an organised pub crawl in a Cornish seaside town....
THE second biker who died following a head-on motorbike crash in Denshaw last month has been named as Graham Howarth. The 50-year-old, from Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, was...
TODDLER Thomas Wilshaw is still fighting for his life, a week after he was dragged under the wheels of a lorry in Huddersfield Road. The two-year-old, who had emergency...
Oldham Planning Committee PLANS to build 148 houses in the Derker housing market renewal area have been given the green light. The scheme, for London Road, is part of a...
Oldham Labour MP Michael Meacher has launched a scathing attack on his former New Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair. Mr Blair, who left power three years ago, published his...
An armed robber from Oldham was part of a gang foiled by police as they targeted cash delivery vans. Officers swooped on Richard Walsh (26), of Heron Street, and the gang as...
RUSH-hour chaos hit the M62 this morning after a jack-knifed lorry skewed over three lanes. The incident, which involved two HGVs, happened shortly before 3am on the...
A CHADDERTON breast cancer survivor is going quackers for a new range of designer charity rubber ducks. Sharon Quennell (46) launched the new additions to Cancer Research...
A ROYTON builder with 32 years experience in the trade died after falling 15ft through a roof. Michael McAiney, a father of two, from Harewood Drive, Royton, was working alone...
A STUNNING gum model by one of the UK’s leading mosaic artists is making a jaw-dropping impact with youngsters at Gallery Oldham. Ed Chapman’s mosaic — made...
PLANS to build a nursery for 30 children on land opposite the Peels Arms, Den Lane, Springhead, were turned down on the grounds of road safety. Resident Roy Turner told...
Neonatal ‘dream team’ is set up A NEW neonatal nursing “dream team” has been set up in Oldham to care for some of the region’s sickest babies....
Families and parents in Oldham are being encouraged to take at least seven steps outside when they light up a cigarette. Oldham’s specialist stop smoking service is...
Ken Holt, the Shaw man who began Oldham’s Life Story project, has died aged 87 after a short illness. Mr Holt, who died in Dr Kershaw’s Hospice on Sunday, helped...
New methods to beat counterfeiters LOOK very closely at that headache tablet you are about to swallow, can you see a barcode on the surface? Maybe not yet but soon it will...
LIFE AND OTHER BITS: ARE Blair and Brown the political equivalent of Burke and Hare or Laurel and Hardy? And if two so-called friends (and with friends like that who...
Duxbury tribute for reserves as United stars are pushed all way ATHLETIC reserves took on a Manchester United second string boasting an England captain and more than £50...
Date Published 02/09/2010
BUSINESSES claim that Oldham Council has ignored their safety fears about a busy junction where a toddler was crushed by a lorry. And they say that the problem has got worse...
REUBEN Hazell is expected to recover from injury in time for Athletic’s home clash with Bristol Rovers on Saturday, writes CHRIS LYNHAM. The skipper limped out of...
BLUE Coat School has applied to become one the new wave of academies. It could be the first to open in the borough after the coalition Government invited the country’s...
ATHLETIC’S second string nearly pulled off a major shock against Manchester United reserves in the Manchester Senior Cup, on the night Rio Ferdinand returned from injury....
RECORD numbers of motorists are being prosecuted for driving while using a mobile phone. But the safety message is still not getting through. The Oldham Chronicle...
CRICKET: LANCASHIRE, thanks to a fine 81 from Kyle Hogg, are on course for their fifth LV=County Championship win of the season after taking charge against Hampshire at...
LOCAL Conservatives are threatening to name and shame any councillor that rejects a 20 per cent cut in their allowance. The average allowance for a councillor in Oldham in...
BOXING: MARK Heffron has been tipped to do for Oldham what Ricky Hatton did for Manchester. The talented welterweight (18) makes his professional debut in Wolverhampton on...
THE average member of the Athletic line-up which finished the game against Shrewsbury this week would be able to buy a beer in America — but only just. Added together...
VOTING began yesterday for the new Labour leader — and the party’s local top man is backing Ed Miliband. Oldham’s Labour leader, Councillor Jim McMahon, says...
ATHLETIC youth team boss Tony Philliskirk is STILL awaiting international clearance for three of his bright young prospects. Northern Ireland duo Carl Winchester and Ryan...
