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CRICKET: OLDHAM under-15s gave their hopes of qualifying for the knock-out stages of the Lancashire Schools’ Ainsworth Trophy a boost when they recorded a 28-run win...
Date Published 07/07/2010
CHANNEL HOPPING: HOLBYLESS Tuesdays, hour-long Enders who-knows-when and Corrie-wobbles all week long. “A change to the advertised schedule” might be the official...
THERE is still time to join Chronicle Business and have breakfast with Dave Whaley, the newspaper’s new editor, on Friday. Dave has some exciting new ideas for the...
CRICKET: ALEX Peters will lead out the Saddleworth and District Cricket League under-18s side in their second group match in the Colts competition on Sunday. The...
LIVELY Oldham students have won praise from a high-flying native of the borough. Abul Shama, the human resources supervisor for the North-West region of Enterprise Rent-A-car,...
BACK in Oldham . . . that’s hearing aid audiologist Stephen Grundy, and the Bolton man is delighted. With his partner Jean Tyrer, formerly of Garden Suburbs but now also...
A Warburtons’ bakery worker has risen through the ranks at the Shaw production plant. Mark Platt has recently been promoted to the role of sales and distribution manager...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards NEWMARKET 1.30 Corsica 2.00 Elzaam 2.35 Treble Jig 3.10...
Housing Units has been named one of the top department stores in the country in the retail industry equivalent of the Oscars. The Wickentree Lane, Hollinwood, business won the...
Axiom Displays, a point-of-sales specialist manufacturer to the retail industry, was a second Oldham-based company to scoop a prize at the Yorkshire Productivity Awards. The...
Chronicle Cup Prediction League How good are YOU at predicting the result of each game? If you think you’re god enough enter the Chronicle’s World Cup...
Building plans in tatters after funding axe OLDHAM’S once-in-a-lifetime plans to sweep away its crumbling secondary schools are in tatters. The Government has...
Date Published 06/07/2010
Schools left reeling as rebuilding money axed SCHOOLS are today coming to terms with the devastating news that multi-million pound plans to overhaul Oldham’s crumbling...
LIBERAL Democrat delays have been blamed for Oldham’s £266million scrapped schools fiasco. Lib-Dems reviewed the plans when they came to power, saying they had...
Two Oldham taxi-drivers who reunited distraught owners with large amounts of cash left in their cabs have been given special awards. Shahzad Hussain, who drives for Borough...
Compensation culture blamed as Oldham tops county league OLDHAM Council has agreed to pay out nearly £6 million in compensation for trips and falls over the last five...
A 19-YEAR-OLD man accused of firing an air gun at armed police officers has been remanded in custody. Jake Smith, of Aden Street, Oldham, is charged with possessing an...
AMBULANCE staff in the North-West suffer the second highest number of assaults in England, according to a trade union. The GMB union, which represents ambulance staff, said...
BENEFIT cheats beware — Oldham Council is warning fraudsters that they will be caught and prosecuted. Over the past 12 months, the council successfully prosecuted 22 benefit...
Almost half of Oldham’s schools have been rated as good or outstanding since new Ofsted inspections began last year. The figures are from inspections in the first two...
GLOBE-TROTTING celebrity Alex the meerkat headed to the Peak District with a trio of Dr Kershaw’s volunteers who are in training for a fundraising trek along the Great Wall...
PASSENGERS at Mills Hill train station will soon benefit from improved passenger security and information. The railway station, in Chadderton, joins 10 others across Greater...
Oldham women are being urged to seize their last chance to enter Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life in Alexandra Park. More than 1,700 women have already accepted the...
‘Constant battle’ takes its toll on outgoing chairman ATHLETIC chairman Simon Blitz has stepped down from the role, blaming “personal and economic...
Oldhamers will have to wait a little while longer before they see any of Greater Manchester’s new green buses on the streets of the borough. The first vehicle will...
DEFENDER Sean Gregan is undergoing treatment for slight ligament damage and will miss the first two friendlies, against Barrow on Saturday and Burnley on Monday, in the build-up...
Engineer takes to road to flag down employers DESPERATE times call for desperate measures. And out-of-work engineer Eric Shaw has been forced to take to the streets in the...
URUGUAY coach Oscar Tabarez believes the pressure is all on Holland when they play their World Cup semi–final at the Green Point stadium tonight. The Dutch, with big...
Sir Alex Ferguson claims the weight of expectation on Wayne Rooney was to blame for the striker's poor form at the World Cup. Rooney failed to score in four matches and looked...
Landowner and water company in row over responsibility RAW sewage pouring into a Delph river has caused the village’s first submersion baptism to be cancelled over...
