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BEATS: DANISH popsters Alphabeat will strut their funky stuff at the Manchester Academy 2 on Saturday. The six-piece — who shot to fame with hits such as...
Date Published 20/04/2010
BOXING: PERRY King displayed his burgeoning boxing skills in the annual Darnhill and Heywood ABC show. The Chadderton teenager beat Curtis Young, of Newbury and Farnworth, in...
BEATS NEWS EXTRA: LA rockers Rebel Motorcycle Club are all set to release their fifth album — the first to be put out from their own record label Abstract Dragon....
BOWLS: THIS year’s Oldham Evening Chronicle Handicap is filling up, so if you intend to take part, act quickly to avoid disappointment. Only 64 bowlers can enter. Heats...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
BEATS: TONIGHT: The Primitives — Moho Live; New Riot, Amy Can Fly — Sub 61; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club — Ritz; Candi Staton — Band on the Wall...
Oldham coach dismisses March’s claims TONY Benson and his opposite number, Hunslet player-coach Paul March, came up with very different verdicts following the...
Date Published 19/04/2010
NOT safe yet: That is the message put out by Dave Penney after another vital three points in the battle against the drop. Second-half goals from Lewis Guy and Dale Stephens...
Carlisle 1, Athletic 2 Safety in sight after Smalley and Guy inspire win ONE of the stations along the breathtaking Settle to Carlisle train line has a curious feature....
Second-half fightback in vain as Roughyeds finish with 11 men OLDHAM lost the plot and exited this year’s Carnegie Challenge Cup at the fourth round stage after a fiery,...
Next Saturday Manchester United tackle Spurs knowing victory at Old Trafford will take them back to the top of the Premier League — and leave Chelsea stewing for over 24...
MOSSLEY’S UniBond League division one north play-off dream is over for another season after they suffered a third defeat in five days at Skelmersdale United. Although...
Rochdale and Notts County both secured promotion on a decisive day at the top of Coca–Cola League Two. Dale needed just a solitary goal from former Boundary Park man...
CLL CRICKET: SPINNER Alan Durose took a career-best nine for 37, including a hat-trick, as WERNETH stunned reigning champions Monton and Weaste on the opening day of the Lake...
THERE was double disappointment for Delph at the weekend. Their Drakes Huddersfield League premiership campaign got under way with a defeat at home to Shepley on Saturday....
BOWLS: Alan Wood, beaten finalist in the 1965 Waterloo Handicap in Blackpool and well known on the local bowls scene, has died at the age of 76. Among the top clubs Mr Wood...
Teachers and pupils missing, thousands still stranded HUNDREDS of pupils and teachers in school across Oldham were left stranded today as the ash cloud held its grip over...
The main suspect behind the kidnapping of Shaw schoolboy Sahil Saeed has been shot dead by police in Pakistan. Reports say the suspect, known as Safeer or Safeera, was shot as...
A psychologist believes the hunt for the last remaining Moors Murders victim may have provided intriguing new leads. Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe, joined an eight-strong team...
Firemen fought a major blaze in grass and woodland at Brushes Clough in Shaw for 31/2 hours on Friday night. The major operation involved 40 fire-fighters, five fire engines,...
A hit and run driver is being hunted by police after a man was left with head injuries in Failsworth. He was struck as he crossed Oldham Road, near the Lamb Inn and Mill...
A JOBLESS drunk who grappled with police officers in Oldham town centre has been told to expect a prison sentence. Wayne Mulhall (27) was one of a group of five men who were...
OLDHAM schools are set to boycott next month’s national tests for 11-year-olds. Two unions have backed the action during the English and maths SATs exams which are due...
AN inquest into the death of three-year-old Dallas Smith is set to conclude today. A 10-person jury finished hearing all the evidence on Friday, the fourth day of the inquiry....
A BOY who suffers from muscular dystrophy showed off his new wheelchair to the fearless fund-raisers who helped to pay for it. Thomas Gardner, from Garden Suburb, was...
Metrolink work leaves shopkeeper on the brink A SHOPKEEPER fears Metrolink road closures could spell the end of the line for his business. New father Danny Mahmood says...
Busy student Arif Ahmed Mohid is training for climbing Kilimanjaro by jogging, running his family business and training to be a teacher. The 23-year-old from Coppice sets off...
ALT residents took their crime and policing concerns to the top when they quizzed Home Secretary Alan Johnson at the ARC community centre, Abbeyhills Road. He was on the...
A poster for Tory hopeful Kamran Ghafoor has local people scratching their heads. The eye-catching sign for the Oldham West and Royton candidate is next to Manchester Cabins...
