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MANCHESTER United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has played down the prospect of further new faces arriving at Old Trafford this summer and insists he is happy with the players at his...
Date Published 20/07/2010
SWIMMING: OLDHAM Amateur Swimming Club finished first in the Central Lancashire Junior Jubilee League at Tyldsley Pool. Competing against hosts Tyldsley, Radcliffe and...
NETBALL: NORTHERN Thunder players swapped their netball dresses for running shorts to take part in Oldham’s seventh annual Race for Life. Captain Karen Greig from...
GAME youngsters donned their silliest outfits to run as far as their intrepid teacher will climb. Year 6 pupils at St Joseph’s RC Primary, Shaw, are backing their deputy...
SPORTING teens from Oldham won a special commemorative trophy for their success in netball during the 2009-10 season. Year 10 girls at Hulme Grammar were crowned the Under-14...
UNIVERSITY Campus Oldham is top-class for teaching teachers. A survey found that 96 per cent of its trainee teachers found a job or went on to further study within six months...
BOWLS: RAY Tracey (British Aero-space) won the Chadderton Bowling League’s President’s Handicap with a 21-12 defeat of Paul Heap (Springbank) at North Chadderton...
HULME roared to victory in the Oldham schools senior doubles boys’ tennis tournament at Failsworth Sports Centre. James Staddon and Andrew Tarpey saw off the challenge...
ROUNDERS: St Paul’s, Royton, won the Oldham schools rounders competition and went on to represent the borough at the Manchester Mini-Youth Games, where they finished...
ATHLETICS: SUCCESSFUL in 2008 and 2009, Ian Grimes made it a hat-trick of wins in the Royton Trail race at Tandle Hill Park. A member of Newham and Essex Beagles, he...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards CATTERICK 2.10 Top Care 2.40 Alhoni 3.10 Hortensis 3.40...
TALENTED musicians from Crompton House School took the Royal Northern College of Music by storm. The school orchestra and choir performed the challenging “The Armed Man,...
VILLAGERS in Uppermill will soon be visiting a new NHS dentist after plans for a clinic were passed by Oldham Council. The two-dentist practice, planned for the corner of High...
WHAT KATI DID NEXT: My husband and I have a few things in common (apart from both liking chewing gum and David Bowie I mean — that’s not important). The main thing...
BEATS: MANCHESTER Jazz Festival is celebrating its 15th birthday with its best ever line-up. More than 80 bands will play across eight city centre venues for a week from...
BEATS: CHICAGO 11-piece Earth, Wind and Fire are bringing their funk/disco to Manchester. The groovers — who racked up 11 top 40 hits between 1977 and 1982, including...
BEATS: Dog and Partridge, Constantine Street, Greenacres, July 31, (1-10pm) The action packed event is raising money for Greenacres Sports Community Association, AFC Oldham...
BEATS: British rockers Spear of Destiny have built a cult following during their 27-year career. The band —Craig Adams, Kirk Brandon, Mike Kelly and Adrian Portas...
BEATS: TONIGHT: Room 94 — Moho Live; Otis Gibbs — Ruby Lounge; Earth, Wind and Fire — Arena. TOMORROW: Eaststrikewest — Moho Live; Silk Flowers —...
AN orphaned Breeze Hill School student, who fled Iraq after his parents were killed, faces being deported after authorities ruled he is older than he claims. Kurdish youngster...
Date Published 19/07/2010
TWO men were arrested after immigration officers swooped at an Oldham foodstore in a crackdown on illegal working. Officers from the UK Border Agency, acting on intelligence...
THE newly re-elected chairman of the Commons Transport Select Committee has added her voice to the clamour surrounding rumours that the Government is about to scrap a grant to bus...
Details of the new development brief for Chadderton’s town centre conservation area will be outlined at the Chadderton District Partnership meeting at Kingfisher School...
MP rallies to save Our Lady’s PARENTS marked the last day of term with a protest to save their school. Our Lady’s RC Primary, Moorside, will close in a...
RUNNERS and walkers tied up their trainers and took to Alexandra Park yesterday during Oldham’s seventh annual Race for Life. Damp weather failed to dampen the spirits...
Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe must spend the rest of his life behind bars, the High Court has ruled. Now known as Peter Coonan, the 63–year–old former lorry...
Oldham MPs are among the many political figures mentioned in the new Peter Mandelson memoirs. Lord Mandelson’s controversial book “The Third Man” recounts...
MUSICAL youngsters at St Mary’s School High Crompton played all the right notes to win a prestigious award at Oldham Music Festival. Pupils from the school band,...
£6.3m unit will treat 7,500 cases a year A PIONEERING new £6.3 million unit to treat patients with tumours and blood disorders at the Royal Oldham Hospital is now taking its...
Great-grandma was only woman in the group THE only woman in the Saddleworth Male Voice Choir has played her final tune with the group after 17 years of dedicated piano...
