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OLDHAM Rugby League Club are battling against the clock in order to get the Whitebank Stadium ready for when York City Knights come to town on Sunday, May 9. Anxious officials...
Date Published 20/04/2010
REMEDIAL action will be taken in three Oldham schools to reduce levels of a natural gas that can increase the risk of cancer. Oldham Council has carried out radon tests at 34...
ATHLETIC have their work cut out trying to stop the Southampton juggernaut at the St Mary’s Stadium tonight (7.45pm kick-off). Former Southend striker Lee Barnard...
WATERHEAD Academy bosses are believed to have become the first to replace their project managers. They have appointed PKF after departing with the original team from Alligan...
A PATIENT lost a testicle during an operation after the surgeon accidentally cut it off, the medical watchdog was told yesterday. Dr Sulieman Al Hourani was only supposed to...
NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: OLDHAM Boro boss Tony Mills has promised his side will take the fight to title-chasing Stone Dominoes in Vodkat North-West Counties League division one...
HOSPITAL beds at the Royal Oldham Hospital are being cut in a bid to improve services for patients. A total of 23 beds on the D2 women’s medical ward are going as part...
AN MP has provided details of why he believes the vote by Oldham Council tenants for a new landlord was rigged. Oldham West and Royton MP Michael Meacher was challenged by...
THE firefighter who headed Britain’s rescue efforts in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake returned to his old school. Peter Stevenson gave a motivational talk to Year...
Enough water to fill a swimming pool goes down the drain A PENSIONER has complained that a broken pipe has been left gushing water for weeks — leaking enough to flood...
SWIFT action from 20 firefighters called to Hathershaw’s Borough Mill yesterday stopped a blaze spreading to the main body of the building. Arsonists set fire to a...
Normal service set to resume at St Mary’s The wraps should come off St Mary’s Church in Greenfield this summer after major restoration work on masonry and roofing....
RUGBY UNION: OLDHAM RU slipped back into the North Lancs/Cumbria Division relegation places after losing 25-7 at home to high-flying Eccles. But the visitors were rather...
LABOUR has launched its manifesto for the North-West promising to secure spending on schools, Sure Start centres, police and the NHS. The party highlighted a range of schemes...
Campaign statement by Kamran Ghafoor, Conservative candidate, Oldham West and Royton No matter which way you look at it our beloved country is in a mess. You can blame it...
Pet cat is feline great at 20 WHEN little black kitten Kizzy was found thin and starving in a cardboard box by children on a school playing field her future looked bleak....
RUGBY UNION: IT is quite unusual for teams at the level Oldham are playing at to have night matches, but because of the disruption through snow and frozen pitches earlier in the...
TABLE TENNIS; OWLS ‘A’ overcame a handicap deficit of 78 points to win the division three knock-out in the Oldham Table Tennis League. Facing against St...
A retired teacher from Grotton will be returning to her old stamping ground to support Oldham’s Race for Life event in July — thanks to the Chronicle. Susan Morgan...
SADDLEWORTH Round Table’s new chairman has vowed to encourage recruitment of new members from a wider area to join the organisation. Revealing his new team, Mike...
OLDHAMERS were forgiven a double take as the police took a step back in time to pound the streets as the peelers. More than 20 officers and staff, along with mascot Constable...
KIND-HEARTED regulars at The Greyhound in Royton have given the British Heart Foundation a £4,270 boost. Pub-goers held a fund-raising drive to support the...
AN army of 135 walkers, some with their pet dogs, took part in the annual charity stroll for Dr Kershaw’s Hospice. A walkers completed a seven and a quarter mile route...
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, George Lawton Hall, Mossley MOSSLEY AODS is nothing if not ambitious, and takes on Disney’s multi-million-pound romantic, comic musical with...
TABLE TENNIS: ANDREW TARPEY, of Oldham Hulme Grammar School, will represent Greater Manchester at this weekend’s Butterfly Schools’ Individual table tennis...
WHAT KATI DID NEXT: Well that’s a week of my life that I’m not getting back. Lay prostrate, waited on hand and foot, watching daytime telly. Come to think...
WATER SPORTS: TALENTED teenager Elliot Lux helped Great Britain’s wakeboard team claim gold — and dedicated the shock first place finish to his poorly mother. Mum...
BEATS: FOLK fans The Travelling Band will return to their hometown for a gig that’s sure to be a night to remember. The Manchester six-piece are gearing up for the...
BEATS: The Brit poppers the Bluetones are on the verge of releasing their sixth album “A New Athens” and are heading out on tour to mark the occasion....
SPEEDWAY: Tobias Kroner (10+2) made an impressive debut for Belle Vue Aces, who recorded a 55-37 win over Ipswich last night. Travel difficulties meant Aces had to rely on...
