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MARTIN Wray, who has run Wrays Furnishers in Oldham for 40 years, is retiring. Mr Wray, who has premises in Union Street, plus outlets in Sale and Altrincham, is closing the...
Date Published 09/06/2010
THE WORST-KEPT secret in football is out . . . Paul Dickov is the new manager of Oldham Athletic. The 37-year-old former Arsenal, Manchester City and Leicester City striker...
Vicar attacks KFC go-ahead opposite his church AN angry vicar has hit out after a 19th takeaway was given the go-ahead within yards of St James’s Church. Rev Paul...
Date Published 08/06/2010
Witness plea after thug threatens to stab lone woman POLICE today appealed for help in catching a thug who dragged a 76-year-old woman from her car before robbing her in broad...
Latics poised to name Dickov ATHLETIC will tomorrow officially unveil their ninth manager in as many years, with Paul Dickov expected to be installed in the lead role. A...
Haulier shows his support for our World Cup team ENGLAND soccer stars Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard have been spotted in Oldham — on the side of a pair...
Home is where the heart is for Roughyeds TABLE-TOPPING Oldham RL have become the best supported club in Co-operative Championship One since their move to the Whitebank Stadium...
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a road crash yesterday morning in which a 39-year-old cyclist suffered serious injuries. At about 11.45am, a VW Caddy van being driven by...
HOSPITAL staff failed to treat a Failsworth man with a fractured skull because they thought he was drunk, an inquest heard. Arnold Siddall (47) cracked his head after being...
THE CHRONICLE’S scoop on Paul Scholes found its way into virtually every national daily this morning. Sports reporter Chris Lynham interviewed the Manchester United star...
WAYNE Rooney can’t wait for the World Cup to begin. Though Rooney’s temper was a major topic during the 3–0 practice match victory against the Platinum...
Signing up to science centre vision for the future PLANS to create a world-class science centre in Oldham have reached a major milestone. Officials met at Oldham Sixth...
Luck important to hopes of lifting world cup - Scholes PAUL SCHOLES believes England can win the World Cup at Soccer City, Johannesburg on July 11 — if they get the rub...
JOHN Milton Edwards, the dynamic chairman of Oldham Mountain Rescue Team, has died. And as a mark of respect and popularity, leading officers from mountain rescue teams in...
MANCHESTER United's owners will have to take tens of millions of pounds out of the club every year to pay off expensive loans, an investigation into the Glazer family's finances...
A FORMER banker has taken over as the new vicar of St Thomas’s Church, Moorside. The Rev Brenda Mitchell (57) was installed as the priest in charge at a service led by...
Pupils help with police training A GANG of Chadderton teenagers ran riot and attacked police with bricks. Luckily, the chaotic scene was all part of a training exercise...
NORTHSIDE ABC star Thomas Stubbs is through to the last eight of the European Championships in Moscow after winning his preliminary bout. He saw off Lithuania’s...
Experts have reacted furiously to the Government’s “carry on crushing” message to North-West rail commuters. Extra train carriages were promised to relieve...
A plaintIVE note from a hunting horn sounded a farewell at the funeral of one of Saddleworth’s most respected farmers. Harold Crowther (81), who farmed 12,000 acres of...
ROYTON’S Jack Kilgannon picked up priceless international experience when he won a bout in Poland. He beat G Yoworsy over three rounds at a show in Toran, picking up the...
Michael Meacher is backing Ed Miliband to be the next leader of the Labour party — not one of the left-wing candidates. The Oldham West and Royton MP has added his...
City secretary won’t forget his local link BERNARD Halford has worked with 29 managers and 12 chairman, overseen the signature of more than 2,000 players and watched in...
ROYTON boxer John Newell fought at Whitehaven Boxing Club on Friday night — 100yd away from the taxi rank where Derrick Bird claimed two of his victims. Bird went on the...
BERNARD Cribbins has helped to promote a new theatre production of the “Railway Children”. The Derker-born actor handed over his porter’s cap from the...
OLDHAM’S first Youth Mayor will be handing over the reins after a whirlwind 12-months in the role. Mohammed Adil (20), from Fern Street, Coppice, has spent the past year...
On the march for charity CHARITY walkers shrugged off the showers to pound the pavements in aid of Help for Heroes. Fund-raisers sallied forth from Chadderton’s...
COLUMBO: PRESCRIPTION MURDER, Lowry, Salford Here’s something you might not have known: Peter Falk was not the first nor even the second actor to play the famously...
Girls’ Night Out, Opera House, Manchester LADIES nights are a common enough sight on the streets of Manchester but all the bawdy behaviour was inside the Opera House...
WHAT KATI DID NEXT: As I write, I am awaiting the beginning of the beginning. Gosh. That sounds dramatic doesn’t it? Well let me tell you, all my male friends out...
