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Society gears up for its 60th anniversary art exhibition AN art group which has boasted Helen Bradley among its members is holding its 60th anniversary exhibition. LS...
Date Published 04/06/2010
ANGLING: Chadderton Mill AC’s Thursday summer league match on the club water saw Darren Webb (Medlock) claim first place with a 45lb 8oz net made of ide and carp. Using...
HOLLINWOOD businessman Frank Rothwell has joined forces with up and coming entrepreneurs to raise money for local cancer patients. Business studies apprentices have teamed up...
Oldham Planning Committee TAKEAWAY owners have been accused of “sticking two fingers” up at planning bosses. Councillors threw out a retrospective application...
SUSAN Moncrieff, who holds the British record for the high jump at 1.95 metres and took silver in the 2002 Commonwealth Games, is offering expert help to young members of the...
CHEERS . . . members of the Junior University team raised a toast to the success of a programme that is helping teenagers realise their full potential. The project was set up...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
YOUNG singers from Dobcross will get their moment in the lime light when their voices are heard on national radio. The choir at Holy Trinity have recorded songs for...
REGULARS at one of Royton’s oldest pubs raised a glass or two to celebrate its 200th birthday. The Angel Inn was built on the new Rochdale turnpike road, now Shaw Road,...
School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield IN recent weeks, television, newspapers and the web have been awash with headlines regarding the creation of artificial...
LIFE, AND OTHER BITS: WELL the New Politics looks a lot like the old politics only it has a lot more money, better suits and a decidedly boring taste in ties. It’s...
Bunn tipped for right-hand man role ATHLETIC will wait until soon-to-be boss Paul Dickov has his feet under the table before his assistant is named. Currently out of the...
Date Published 03/06/2010
New man in at the deep end New Latics manager Paul Dickov and Athletic’s fortunes have intersected before. The incoming manager, now aged 37, will enter Boundary...
Parking problem for crews FRUSTRATED firefighters are being prevented from reaching potentially deadly fires because of inconsiderate parking. Vital minutes tick by as...
DANNY Whitmore, Oldham's young hooker, will go into Sunday's big game against Blackpool Panthers at Whitebank buoyed by his trophy-winning performance in the Roughyeds' 28-16 win...
The new coalition Government must not use affordable housing as an easy budget cut, according to an Oldham housing association. A group of 21 leading housing associations...
OLDHAM’S rising welterweight star Ronnie ‘The Razor’ Heffron returns to the ring for a four-round contest on the undercard of the Michael Jennings versus John...
A VOTE to determine the fate of the council’s housing stock saw the vast majority of tenants favour a transfer to First Choice Homes Oldham. A total of 87 per cent of...
Can early starter Finnish the job? TEENAGER Jessica Lloyd has been chosen to represent Great Britain’s swimming team at the European Junior Championships in Helsinki,...
THE captain of the Star Ship Enterprise been promoted to Sir. Sir Patrick Stewart, who shot to fame as Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, was...
CRICKET OPINION: “TIME for change” was the Conservatives’ battle cry in the recent General Election. Unfortunately from a Tory perspective, that view was...
BROTHER and sister Morgan and Sienna Rathbone will make their TV debut tonight. The Oldham pair won Big Bold Hug — a nationwide search to find children to star in the...
LCB chief on local cricket’s burning issue ANDY Hayhurst, director of the Lancashire Cricket Board, said it would take a “huge amount of work” to form a...
AID worker Paveen Yaqub will be reunited with her family in Oldham on Sunday after being freed from prison in Israel yesterday. Paveen (39), an Oldham Council LIFT project...
ORGANISERS say there will not be a knee-jerk reaction after Greenfield’s band contest was marred by tragedy. Alan Chamberlain (57) died after he was hit by a coach in...
CRICKET: ROYTON opening bowler Ryan Mayes will make his debut for the Lake Garage CLL side when they take on the Ribblesdale League in the Reader Inter-League Challenge Cup...
LAWYERS representing the family of a Hollinwood father killed by a hit-and-run driver in front of his young daughter have appealed for witnesses to come forward. Wayne Leary...
OLDHAM is at the centre of a legal battle that could make political history and force a by-election. Lib-Dem candidate Elwyn Watkins claims Oldham East and Saddleworth Labour...
Nobody gets my backing, says MP Ashton MP David Heyes is not going to nominate any candidate to be the next leader of the Labour Party. Six candidates have declared they...
CROMPTON professional Matthew Needham was removed from the bowling attack by the umpires during Sunday’s Lake Garage CLL defeat at Milnrow. Needham was incensed when...
