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A DISTRAUGHT owner has warned of the dangers of keeping potentially ferocious dogs as pets after her puppy was mauled to death by a Staffordshire bull terrier in a park in front...
Date Published 07/07/2010
THE trust that runs the Royal Oldham Hospital has defended itself against concerns over high rates of unexpected deaths. Patients group Cure the NHS claims more than 3,000...
OLDHAM Council has been rewarded for its eggs-cellent work to bring cruelty-free food to schoolchildren. Eggs from battery hens were banned last year and healthier new menus...
Rise in exotic breeds taken in by dogs home GROWING numbers of exotic breeds are being handed in at Manchester Dogs Home as the recession starts to bite among more affluent...
ATHLETIC had prepared for the departure of co-owners Simon Blitz and Danny Gazal. New chairman Simon Corney has revealed that Athletic had been mindful for a while of the...
OLDHAM RL Club (1997) Ltd still has significant debt and is fighting to balance the books, chairman Chris Hamilton has warned. The club has done "fantastically well"...
TRIBUTES have been paid to a much-loved member of Breeze Hill School who died after a road accident. Robert Edwards (57), from Bardsley, was the deputy manager of the...
SPAIN coach Vicente del Bosque will have to choose between Fernando Torres and Cesc Fabregas to face Germany in tonight’s World Cup semi–final. Fabregas has been...
A THUG who bit and stabbed a man in an explosion of late-night drunken violence in Oldham town centre had his sentence appeal turned down by top judges. Terence William Calder...
GERMANY coach Joachim Low has defended his captain Philipp Lahm ahead of their World Cup semi–final encounter against Spain in Durban tonight. The Bayern Munich defender...
THE father of David Foulkes, who was killed in the July 7 London bombings, has hit out at the lack of an official commemorative event during today’s fifth anniversary of the...
ROUGHYEDS reserves recorded a brilliant 20-16 win against high-flying Leigh Centurions last night, inflicting only their second defeat of the season. “We gave an...
SPEEDWAY: BELLE Vue took a welcome break from league action to beat high-flying Poole 50-40 in the first leg of the Knockout Cup. Some of the best racing of the season...
Former Labour ministers were handed a total of £1,051,202 in severance pay after the General Election. The cash paid out to former Labour ministers was not based on...
Sport betting: AT what stage does a top-notch tennis player start to go over the hill? Roger Federer might be only 28, but the signs are that his relentless pursuit of...
EVIDENCE of the force of the great flood of 1927 was uncovered when archaeologists excavated the Orb Mill site at Waterhead. The flood struck Oldham on July 11 causing major...
Project looks at entertainment in the 1950s YOUNG people in Hollinwood, Coldhurst and St Mary’s will get a unique insight into what their grandparents got up to on a...
GOLF: EXPERIENCE overcame youthful exuberance as Mark Riley retained the Oldham and District Golf Championship in his own back yard. The 51-year-old, from Chadderton,...
Shaw and Crompton Parish Council Planning Committee PARISH councillors have again backed campaigners by recommending plans to build at Crompton Hall Wood are refused....
GOLF: CROMPTON and Royton vice-captains Gordon Lamb and Audrey Whittaker proved an unstoppable combination in the High #Barn club’s President’s Salver. The...
AN Oldham Euro-MP wants to limit the number of different cables used to power scores of electrical devices. Liberal Democrat Chris Davies has welcomed Brussels success in...
GOLF: JENNIFER Sykes won Mr Captain’s Competition played over two rounds at Crompton and Royton. She carded scores of 67 and 74 for a 141 total, a shot clear of...
GOLF: STAMFORD stormed into contention for the Oldham and District ‘A’ Division crown with an 8-0 whitewash of Saddleworth. That enabled them to leapfrog...
RUGBY: OLDHAM St Anne’s under-11s require players for the 2010-11 season. Any player who is in school Year Five and wants to try rugby league, call Dave Charles on...
GLAMOUR was the name of the game for North Chadderton pupils as they bid farewell to their school years. The teenagers celebrated the end of their exams with a glittering prom...
FOOTBALL: ROCS FC can reflect on a season of trophy glory. The under-15s were crowned North Manchester Girls League champions and also lifted the Knockout Cup, but they...
THE Government has revealed radical plans to reform prisons by locking up fewer offenders and giving more community sentences instead. Richard Hooton asked shoppers in Oldham...
ROYTON Town under-16s, who play in the Tameside and District Junior League, require new players. Training takes place on Tuesdays at Clayton playing fields (6.30pm) and...
SHAW ‘A’ extended their lead at the top of the Saddleworth and District Junior League under-15s division with an impressive 50-run victory over nearest rivals Heyside...
A GUARDIAN angel who twice leapt to the rescue of suicidal women threatening to jump off the same bridge has been nominated for a Pride in Oldham award. The Chronicle revealed...
