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What puts the pride into Britain? Is it our health service, free education or sense of humour? The Post Office recently asked people what they thought in their ‘Alternative...
Date Published 18/08/2010
JOHN Mellor is inspiring a new generation of players with his love of rugby league. The 54-year-old is club secretary, fund-raiser, volunteer and stalwart at Higginshaw...
CHANNEL HOPPING: IN soap life, there’s one thing even more certain than death and taxes. And that’s the fact that, on occasion, Phil Mitchell will go on a...
ONLY weeks after being appointed managing director of Ferranti Technologies, Steve Warren was faced with some difficult decisions. The worldwide recession and subsequent...
ONE of Oldham’s leading estate agents has ventured into the auction market in partnership with Auction house UK. Ryder and Dutton, whose headquarters is at Salmon Fields...
Oldham-based Willmott Dixon Construction has been awarded an £11.5million contract to build a new leisure centre for Rochdale Council. The council plans to redevelop...
OLDHAM-based office interior design and fit-out specialists ADT Workplace has completed its latest project for global insurance company CNA Insurance. The firm, at Whitney...
Supporters of Rabar Hamad, the age-row asylum seeker who has now vanished, say they have no idea where he is. Campaigners are worried for his health and emotional state, seven...
Date Published 17/08/2010
A SHAW man was given a seven-year prison sentence at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court after pleading guilty to 17 counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of...
MOTORISTS today faced a second day of travel misery in Delph after the main road through the village was shut off yesterday. Commuters were thrown into confusion when water...
The Prince of Wales is to embark on a tour of the UK next month, including Manchester, to champion examples of sustainable living. Travelling on the Royal Train, which runs on...
BULLDOZERS have moved in to begin demolishing two mills and other buildings to make way for regeneration in Hathershaw. Five properties — Borough Mill, the former...
THE new chief executive of First Choice Homes Oldham is Cath Green, currently an executive director with Liverpool City Council. She will take up the post following Hugh...
OLDHAM is getting stuck in to a major campaign to tackle the blight of chewing gum on our streets. The borough is one of 11 areas nationwide selected to take part in the...
Oldham Council is going for gold again in the annual RSPCA Footprint Awards. Last year the authority took two top awards, for welfare and education by its dog warden service,...
A Moorside woman has broken into the male-dominated profession of horse farrier and starts work this autumn. Newly-qualified Deborah Connell (24) will be presented with her...
A GROUP of teenage volunteers went to St Thomas’s Church, Delph, to help breathe new life into the decaying landmark. Almost 40 young people offered a helping hand at...
Oldham MP Phil Woolas swopped the corridors of Westminster for Westminster Street, Oldham, when he dropped in on a successful community project. A neglected area of Derker...
SEAN Gregan will have to wait for his first-team chance, says Athletic manager Paul Dickov. The 36-year-old didn’t miss a single minute of the 2009-10 campaign and his...
SHREWSBURY will visit Boundary Park in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy first round on Tuesday, August 31 (7.45pm kick-off). Npower League Two outfit Shrewsbury have made an...
Manchester United 3, Newcastle 0 SIR Alex Ferguson feels Paul Scholes is putting the smile back on the face of football. Eight days after his...
RUGBY LEAGUE: DESPITE a disappointing 48-18 defeat by Leigh Centurions at the Whitebank Stadium, Roughyeds reserves will qualify for the first time for the top-six play-offs...
THE school summer holidays couldn’t have come at a better time for PE teacher Katy Moore as she prepares for the Triathlon Olympic Distance World Championships in Budapest....
MANCHESTER City kit manager Les Chapman is a larger than life character in the Eastlands dressing room. The former Athletic star — who lives in Delph — now writes...
NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: CHADDERTON go into tonight’s Vodkat North-West Counties League division one derby with Rochdale Town full of confidence. Victory at Irlam in the...
SPEEDWAY: Despite losing Hans Andersen with a broken finger sustained in Saturday’s Grand Prix, Belle Vue clung to their faint play-off hopes by defeating league leaders...
ICE HOCKEY: MANCHESTER Phoenix have signed James Archer from Hull Stingrays. He was released following the closure of the Humbersiders. Phoenix player-coach Tony Hand...
BOWLS: SPRINGBANK ‘A’ produced a fine team display to win the Saddleworth League’s Law Swallow Cup at Nimble Nook. They defeated High Crompton Park by 63...
OLDHAM’S mystery repairman, Stephen Rimmer, has been nominated for a Pride in Oldham award. Stephen shot to national fame when his overnight repairs to patch broken...
Corrie!, Lowry Quays, Salford WITH the sort of crush once reserved for a new batch of Betty’s hotpot at the Rovers, current cast and fans alike packed into the Lowry for...
