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CRICKET: RESURGENT Droylsden are determined to keep their feet firmly on the ground. After no league wins in 2009, the Oakfield outfit have found some form, with victories in...
Date Published 20/05/2010
CRICKET: WERNETH are two points worse off after a CLL ruling to award Radcliffe victory instead of a draw during their visit to the Coppice last month. Intially, the match was...
CRICKET: GREENGATE enjoyed a convincing win at home to Europa Exiles in the Ashton and Oldham Cricket Alliance. Europa batted first and were dismissed for 111, A Hodgson top...
RUGBY LEAGUE: A STRONG team performance from Saddleworth Rangers under-10s saw them win 30-10 away at Portico Vine. The visitors drew first blood with a try by Nathan Burgess,...
SNOOKER: Two-time world snooker champion Mark Williams MBE displayed his silky skills on the green baize when he visited Oldham’s Hillbillies snooker club last night.
CRICKET: WOODHOUSES captain Mike Cassidy was left to count the cost of sloppy work in the field as they suffered a first defeat of the season in the Lancashire County League....
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
Police have seized cannabis plants worth £500,000 from a disused factory in Failsworth. The find, at an industrial estate off Banbury Avenue, came as six officers armed with a...
Floor collapse leaves 67-year-old under rubble A PLUMBER had a lucky escape when the floor of a house he was working on collapsed leaving him trapped under rubble. The...
Latics will listen to residents RESIDENTS are being invited to have their say on Latics’ controversial plans for a £20 million new stadium in Failsworth. A...
A MOB of weary meerkats are on the last leg of an epic journey o’er high seas and barren lands to finally arrive in... Oldham. A thousand of the plucky creatures missed...
Police have released an image of a man they are hunting after a woman was robbed as she walked home from a shopping trip in Oldham town centre. The 23-year-old victim was...
COUNCIL and police chiefs have reassured residents and landlords they can display England flags in homes and pubs during the World Cup. Incidents elsewhere in the country had...
A Harris hawk is on the loose after escaping from its keeper’s house in Watersheddings. Ruby the raptor, a large golden-brown bird, native to the Americas and capable of...
Labour’s policy on tackling immigration was right but came too late, according to Phil Woolas. The former immigration minister said Labour should have made more of its...
Royton RAF man gets a call to meet Prince William after running line in FA Cup final WHILE most people would be content rubbing shoulders with football stars, Royton’s...
A 60-year-old tradition has become a family affair for the new Mayor of Austerlands. Roger Fielding will follow in his father Ben’s footsteps when he is bestowed the...
MONEY raised for charity from a mountain climb was boosted by a pub fundraiser to a whopping £6,030. Special-needs teacher Fiona Southall (38) and six friends raised...
ROAD safety chiefs from the police and council rolled into Christ Church Primary School to help pupils brush up on their highway knowledge when they named Denshaw “Village...
STAFF at Housing Units in Hollinwood have handed over a cheque for £8,932 to The Christie hospital. “Our staff don’t sit around — despite the numbers...
The woman who fought off Margaret Thatcher’s privatisation of Oldham’s buses for seven years is finally quitting public life — and leaving the country. Val...
Primrose Bank inspires Elaine A PHOTOGRAPH of a lone tree at Primrose Bank so impressed Rochdale poet Elaine Wolfe that she composed some of her verses in tribute. Elaine...
PAV’s Patch: IT’S a wonderful thing, middle-age. I’m sure I must already have written about my mid-life crisis — waking up one morning to realise more than...
Yobs pounce on random passenger vicious thugs beat a stranger who was alone on a bus and left him with a fractured skull — simply because he didn’t have a...
Date Published 19/05/2010
Thief will not have to repay £67,000 debt A bank manager who stole thousands of pounds from a rugby club to pay off spiralling personal debts will not have to pay back...
Penalty miss costs Richard £45,000! A SOCCER fan from Shaw has netted £5,000 after finishing runner-up in a fantasy football competition played by more than...
Disabled man attacked in his own home A DISABLED man was found slumped on his sofa with a broken leg and collapsed lung 15 hours after being assaulted with his own walking...
OLDHAM’S business community has rallied round to meet the cost of publishing a book of poetry written from the heart by Jaynie Huxley. The 46-year-old — featured...
Ethan, 7, battling brain tumour A BRAVE youngster who is fighting an inoperable brain tumour has inspired his dad to aim high and slim down. Kristopher Gleave (30) will...
VANDALS have destroyed a beautiful garden which junior school children spent nearly a year creating. Youngsters at Alexandra Park Junior School spent hours weeding, digging,...
