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UNLUCKY Craig Robinson, the Oldham Rugby League Club forward, has broken a finger in training . . . just as the squad is preparing for its play-off adventure with promotion as top...
Date Published 26/08/2010
JAMES Milner will sit out the return leg of Manchester City’s Europa League match against Timisoara at Eastlands tonight — he wasn’t registered in time following...
DOG owners could soon be forced to keep their pets on leads in all the borough’s parks — in a move to make Oldham cleaner and safer. Council bosses are planning a...
OLDHAM Athletic’s dream of a new £20 million stadium in Failsworth moved a step closer reality after a proposed land swap was approved yesterday. The site for...
THE Pennine Acute Trust today hit back at statistics which put it as the worst in the North-West for complaints. Figures compiled by the NHS Information Centre reveal that...
THE mum of a teenager who died in a head-on motorbike smash in Denshaw has written a poignant tribute to her popular son. Suzanne Smith wrote the heart-breaking words directly...
OLDHAM Roughyeds stars Paul O'Connor and Neil Roden have been named in the 2010 Co-operative Championship One all-stars team. O'Connor has performed heroics at full-back in...
OLDHAM’S GCSE stars have achieved the borough’s best ever results. Individual schools reported record grades as well as outstanding personal achievements. And...
GCSE: IDENTICAL twins from Saddleworth School achieved double success after receiving almost identical GCSE results. Adam and Ashley Simkins (16), who scooped an...
GOALKICKING half-back Mick Diveney won two player-of-the-year trophies at the Roughyeds' Reserves' end-of-season presentations, held in a packed Whitebank Stadium function room....
GCSE: TRIPLETS who couldn’t speak English when they left Kosovo are celebrating a GCSE hat-trick. Agnesa, Arneta and Atdhetare Hoxha, of Lower Edge Avenue, Oldham,...
GCSE: BOYS are catching up girls in the top grades at Hulme Grammar Schools. Pupils scored a 91 per cent pass rate, with almost one-quarter achieving nine or more A* or A...
CRICKET: EVERGREEN Oldham bowler Mel Whittle is to hang up his cricketing boots at the end of the season. At the age of 63 and with 49 years of local league cricket behind...
GCSE: A BRAVE Kaskenmoor pupil, who sat exams only days after her mum was critically injured in a car crash, cried tears of joy as she opened her GCSE results. Emily Clare...
GCSE: PERFECT 10 — dynamic duo Thomas Lee and Michael Smith, from Crompton House, got a full house of A*. They scooped the best possible grade in every exam they...
RUGBY LEAGUE: SADDLEWORTH Rangers picked up their first points of the National Conference League premier division campaign with a tense 22-18 victory away at Bradford Dudley Hill....
RUGBY LEAGUE: THE CREAM of the town's young rugby league talent are to be given their chance to shine next week. An under-18s Oldham Service Area trial is being held at the...
GCSE: HARD work plus revision equals exam success for numbers whizz Oliur Rahman who picked an A-level in maths alongside eight A* GCSE grades. The 16-year-old Grange...
GCSE: A FUTURE in mechanical engineering is on the cards for high-achiever Kerris Boulton, who will take up an apprenticeship with Oldham Training College in September....
GCSE: NORTH Chadderton School pupils were stunned as they opened their brown envelopes to reveal outstanding GCSE results. Hardworking Kayleigh Murray (16) made her...
CRICKET: BANK Holiday Monday is all about the battle for silverware for the remaining hopefuls in the Saddleworth and District Cricket League’s Twenty20 Cup competition at...
GCSE: IT is all smiles for the last ever pupils to receive their GCSE results from Breeze Hill School. They achieved a record 52 per cent 5 A* to C pass rate — the...
CRICKET: THE final round of games in the Ashton & Oldham Cricket Alliance campaign saw Friends clinch the title thanks to a maximum points haul at Heyside. Batting first,...
GCSE: STANDARDS rose across the board for the sixth year running in Our Lady’s School’s GCSE results. The percentage of students achieving five top GCSE...
GCSE: ROYTON and Crompton School students Kyle Mayall and Thomas Lee jumped for joy when they ripped open their exam results. Former head boy Kyle discovered he had two...
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GCSE: SOUTH Chadderton School bowed out with much improved results before being transformed into an academy. The percentage of students achieving five A*-C grades was up...
A TOTAL of 440 young people across Oldham are claiming long-term sickness benefits. Employment minister Chris Grayling said he was shocked at the number of 16 to 25-year-olds...
WHILE a place in the Carnegie Challenge Cup final is was a dream too far this season for the promotion-chasing Roughyeds, a group of talented youngsters will at least make sure...
PAV’S PATCH: I WATCHED an excellent programme on BBC Four the other week. It was all about the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a...
