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Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards YORK 1.40 Forte Dei Marmi 2.10 Rainfall 2.40 Cabaret 3.10...
Date Published 11/05/2010
Parties urged to put differences aside LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010 WITH the future of Oldham Council hanging in the balance party leaders are being urged to put their political...
Date Published 10/05/2010
ATHLETIC are coping with more upheaval behind the scenes following the departure of director Mike Newton. The 39-year-old New York-based businessman leaves following a...
ATHLETIC managing director Simon Corney and chief executive Alan Hardy were in Walsall today for an emergency Football League meeting. The Premier League is understood to have...
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010 FORMER Oldham mayor John Battye is back in the council chamber after storming to victory in Failsworth West. The veteran politician and former Labour...
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010 “IT’S great to be back,” said a triumphant Labour group leader Jim McMahon who saw gains in five Oldham wards. And the group leader said they were now...
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010 “THAT’S just the way the cookie crumbles” — the words of Lib-Dem leader Howard Sykes (right) after his party lost three seats and overall control of...
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010 OLDHAM’S Tory group leader Jack Hulme was left reeling after his party lost the only seat it was fighting. He said it was a huge blow not only to the...
Local ELECTIONS 2010 A DEVASTATING blow was served to the Liberal Democrats when former cabinet member for regeneration Mohib Uddin failed to win his seat by 578 votes....
Oldham 28, York 34 Last-gasp try denies Oldham a happy start at new home THE going was too tough for the Roughyeds as Tony Benson’s men fell to a first defeat of...
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010 YASMIN Toor made political history when she became Oldham’s first female Asian Muslim to win a place in the council chamber. The Labour representative...
ELECTION 2010 Labour Minister Phil Woolas is facing life in a hung Parliament today after pipping his nearest rival by 103 votes following three exhausting election counts on...
Athletic 0, Charlton 2 Latics pay the price for individual mistakes INDIVIDUAL errors again proved costly as a week of change ended in all-too familiar fashion. The...
THREE more men have come forward claiming they, too, were victims of jailed child sex beast Ken Hughes. The young men claim they were subjected to years of abuse by the...
Trapped victim and 2 youths are held on suspicion of burglary A 27-YEAR-OLD man suffered serious injuries when a shop wall collapsed, trapping him under rubble. The...
ROGER PALMER may just be pulling on his old boots tonight. The 51-year-old Athletic legend produced one of the biggest cheers of the season when he was introduced to the crowd...
Power cut to homes HOMES were evacuated in Werneth after an electrical substation caught fire. Thick black smoke billowed from the Richmond substation in Richmond Walk, on...
AMATEUR RUGBY LEAGUE: SADDLEWORTH Rangers have clinched promotion to the National Conference League premier division. Thatto Heath’s 78-16 thrashing of Normanton —...
Manchester United assistant boss Mike Phelan insists England’s worried fans need have no concern over the fitness of Wayne Rooney. The 34–goal striker walked off...
MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini fears the club’s failure to qualify for the Champions League will cost them any chance of signing Fernando Torres. Mancini, whose...
CLL CRICKET: DERBY day bragging rights went to Werneth who crushed rivals Oldham in the JW Lees Central Lancashire League. Chris Erasmus was star of the show at the Coppice...
THE Saddleworth Wartime Weekend, which attracts thousands of visitors to the villages, is to go ahead under a new name. The turnaround comes a week after the event, scheduled...
SADDLEWORTH’S famous Beer Walk will start an hour earlier this year to minimise traffic disruption. The charity fund-raising event, which attracts scores of enthusiastic teams...
UPPERMILL Band has continued its winning form with two more trophies. Members scooped first place at the Buxton Band Contest, along with the trophy for the highest placed...
Football: AVRO clinched the Bridgewater Office Supplies Manchester League premier division title with a 3-0 victory at Leigh Athletic. They leapfrogged Wythenshawe Amateurs....
LEWIS JONES chats to Nancy Kearney, whose love of books inspired her to buy a traditional bookshop in Uppermill. “TO Rose, with all good wishes for Christmas 1943,...
Saddleworth and District CRICKET: IMRAN Aslam produced another stand-out performance for Glodwick in the Armstrongs Office Furniture Saddleworth and District Cricket League...
A man’s obsession with all things Shakespeare has paid off — as he thinks he has found an early undiscovered play by the world-famous bard. Much ado about nothing,...
LOCAL CRICKET: DELPH eased to a home victory against Barkisland in the Drakes Huddersfield League premier division. The visitors were dismissed for 172 before Delph made 173...
Oldham Muslim Centre has been shortlisted for the Community Cohesion prize in the North West Fusion awards. The centre is based in Neville Street, Chadderton, and the award,...
