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ELECTION 2010 Thirty pubs across Oldham have shut their doors since 1997, figures have shown. The Conservative who published the figures claim Labour’s “beer duty...
Date Published 30/04/2010
They may be too young to vote in next week’s elections, but the toddlers at a Chadderton nursery still had the chance to elect a winner. The youngsters at Victoria Brook...
Oldham Planning Committee verdicts A DERELICT Grade II listed building, described as “the most exclusive pigeon loft in Saddleworth” and a former smithy, will be...
A MOVING ceremony honoured people who have been killed while at work. Workers Memorial Day is a trade union campaign to commemorate such tragedies. UNISON Oldham marked...
Oldham Town Centre Partnership OLDHAM’S Town Centre Action Plan has been unveiled. Sub-groups will be established to implement the plan, which runs up to March 2013....
DR PAULINE BALAC Senior biology lecturer, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield AN editorial in the British Medical Journal this month, by two professors...
A Hathershaw-based drama and music group is back in business after an eight-month break. Performance Plaza, which will reopen on Tuesday at the Honeywell Centre in Ashton Road,...
LIFE AND OTHER BITS: HERE’S a thought for those of us who are election weary: there’s only one Gordon Brown. In other words you can be sure that the Gordon Brown who...
Employers may be skating on thin ice by asking workers stranded by the Icelandic volcanic-ash cloud to treat the enforced time off as holiday leave. An Oldham employment-law...
£18,000 pot plants found in hideaway under wardrobe A CANNABIS farm has been discovered in a secret cellar of a Failsworth property. Police executed a warrant at a ground-...
Date Published 29/04/2010
MURDERS and manslaughters in Greater Manchester have fallen to their lowest levels for 20 years, new figures reveal. There were 35 killings recorded in 2009-10 — a drop...
OLDHAM Council has been ordered to pay almost half a million pounds immediately in legal fees following its failed prosecution of kitchen trader Vance Miller. His trial...
Captain’s night of honour CAPTAIN fantastic Sean Gregan has cleaned up at Athletic’s player of the season awards. The 36-year-old centre-back’s outstanding campaign was...
DEAN Hatton returns to the Oldham second team tonight, five weeks after fracturing a thumb on his Roughyeds debut. The half-back or hooker, who picked up the injury against...
PARK LIFE: YOU DON’T have to be Alistair Darling, George Osborne or Vince Cable to understand Athletic’s bottom-line financial equation. Fewer fans through the...
PARK LIFE: IT IS 20 years to the day since 30,000 Oldhamers made the long trip to Wembley to watch Athletic take on Nottingham Forest in the final of the Littlewoods Cup. Many...
ELECTION 2010 PRIME Minister Gordon Brown vowed to safeguard Oldham’s schools, health services and police force during a whistlestop tour of the town. The PM dropped into...
PARK LIFE: YEOVIL Town, Athletic’s opponents at Huish Park on Saturday (3pm), are still not completely safe in Coca-Cola League One. The Glovers head into their final home...
ATHLETIC fans, former players and officials enjoyed an evening of nostalgia and celebration at the Queen Elizabeth Hall last night in memory of the famous ‘pinch me’...
PARK LIFE: CARL Winchester is to follow Kirk Millar by making the move from Northern Irish club Linfield to Athletic. The midfielder or full-back is to begin a two-year...
MONEY Oldham has been granted to help businesses survive the credit crunch is set to be spent on helping people set up new market stalls. The Government has given 107 local...
NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: Chadderton recorded a fine 3-1 win at fifth-placed Leek CSOB in Vodkat North-West Counties League division one last night. Joe Jacobs put them in front,...
CRICKET: IMRAN ASLAM was a man in a hurry on the opening day of the Armstrongs Office Furniture Saddleworth and District Cricket League. The Glodwick professional smashed a...
ELECTION 2010 PM’s ‘bigot’ comment regret Gordon Brown will attempt to lift himself for the third and final prime ministerial debate today after offering a grovelling...
ELECTION 2010 A TORY candidate has refuted claims by a probation officer that her question was answered with a foul-mouthed response. Dionne Robinson, of Denmark Street,...
LAST-MINUTE replacement Alan Campbell had the volcanic ash crisis to thank for a match-winning display. The 59-year-old slow bowler took eight for 25 for Shaw against Moorside...
ELECTION 2010 A youth mentoring project would be set up in Oldham under a Conservative government, the party has claimed. David Cameron said a small part of the Home...
CRICKET: THE Ashton and Oldham Cricket Alliance season got under way with games in the Charlie Scoltock Twenty20 competition. At Newtonhurst, the home side batted first and...
ELECTION 2010 Campaign statement: Mark Alcock, Liberal Democrat candidate, Oldham West and Royton I am an Oldham Borough councillor for the Shaw ward. I live in Shaw with...
NETBALL: NORTHERN Thunder are in Netball Superleague play-off action tomorrow. They meet Hertfordshire Mavericks at the Castle Leisure Centre, Bury (start 7.30pm). In the...
