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OLDHAMERS can give their old and unwanted furniture a new life by recycling it. The newly-refurbished Household Waste Recycling Centre in Arkwright Street is now accepting...
Date Published 16/06/2010
A BOWEL cancer screening programme has tested more than 100,000 across Greater Manchester. The project was launched in February, 2007, offering early testing of symptoms to...
TV gardener backing Bloom and Grow CELEBRITY TV gardener Joe Swift is hoping to inspire green-fingered Oldhamers in the run-up to this year’s Bloom and Grow campaign....
NEIGHBOURS, everybody needs good neighbours — or so the song goes — but how many of us really know the people next door? A survey by polling group YouGov revealed...
Channel hopping: AN angry swarm of bees, the worst motorway traffic jam in history or the sound of Robert Green’s backside after his fumble in the jungle —...
SPORTS clubs in Oldham and surrounding areas are being targeted by a new business set up by the joint managers of Springhead FC. Andy Revill has teamed up with long-time...
A DELPH company picked up two prizes at the seventh annual Yorkshire Productivity Awards. Precision engineers Texecom, based in Slackcote Lane, Delph, was named winner in the...
AN Oldham garage specialising in diagnostics is one of four Oldham businesses to have won a Swift Award in a national campaign to find the best local automotive businesses across...
AN Oldham man is behind the formation of a consultancy that aims to help organisations save money. Procurement specialist David Turner, from Diggle, has set up Sourcing...
OLDHAM is to host another Greater Manchester Chamber networking lunch for members at the Bower Hotel, Hollinwood Avenue, Chadderton, on June 30. Registration is from noon...
THE Safety Group Ltd — a North-West based health, safety, employment law and risk management consultancy — has secured Government funding to provide businesses in...
Club keen to build bond with the supporters ATHLETIC supporters will get their first chance to grill new boss Paul Dickov next month. A ‘meet the manager’...
Date Published 15/06/2010
BOWLS: A CLASH between three-times champion Steve Copeland and last year’s runner-up Darren Griffiths will kick off finals night in the Oldham Evening Chronicle Bowling...
FOOTBALL: Royton girl has key role at Eastlands OLDHAM’S presence in the halls of power at Manchester City shows no sign of waning. Life president Bernard Halford,...
WORLD CUP: GARETH Barry is looking forward to being reunited in the England midfield with Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard after winning his battle to be fit for...
Football: FRED Hardicre has replaced Paul Bennett as first-team manager of Manchester League premier division outfit Hollinwood. He has stepped from the reserves and will...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards ROYAL ASCOT 2.30 Free Judgement 3.05 Alsace Lorraine (nap) 3.50 Mawatheeq...
CRIME-BUSTING teenagers are taking to the streets of South Chadderton as part of the borough’s first ever Neighbourhood Youth Watch. Ten young people, aged between eight...
CONMEN pretending to be water board workers are targeting local pensioners. Since the start of June, two men have visited several homes in Oldham pretending to need access to...
Women-friendly mosque awarded five-star rating AN Oldham mosque has been named one of the top 50 in the country — for being woman-friendly. The Jamiat Ahl-E-Hadith,...
Colleagues pay their respects at funeral of chairman COLLEAGUES formed a guard of honour at the entrance to Hollinwood Crematorium to bid a last farewell to Oldham Mountain...
A MAN who burst into an Oldham home and attacked the occupier with his fists and a knife, has been jailed. Paul Burrows (48) got into the flat in Middlefield through an...
HUNDREDS of parents and pupils turned out in force to meet the new principal of the Waterhead Academy, — which is due to replace Breeze Hill and Counthill schools in...
£16m housing project underway A £16 MILLION regeneration project which will transform a major gateway into Oldham is underway in St Mary’s. Contour...
DESCRIBING Oldham’s youth as the “forgotten generation” entrepreneur Bill Holroyd launched an impassioned appeal to the borough’s business community....
ONE of Oldham’s most dangerous roads is to get new safety features. A speed camera was installed in Milnrow Road, Shaw, in 2005, but there were still 15 accidents from...
OLDHAM residents are being urged to say no to knock-off goods in a bid to curb crime in their community. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has launched a campaign urging people...
Hot on the heels of criticism of May’s Whit weekend celebrations in Saddleworth, organisers will soon meet to discuss the successes and failures in a bid to improve public...
PLANS for more parking spaces in Oldham will see limited waiting times brought in at some long-stay car parks. Oldham Council aims to introduce a maximum waiting period of...
Transport chiefs have formed a Roses alliance to try to persuade the Government to help end the misery of Oldham’s overcrowded trains. After two years of talking with...
