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Man held after hit-run death THE devastated family of a man killed yards from his 11-year-old daughter in a hit-and-run accident have paid tribute to him. Wayne Leary...
Date Published 07/04/2010
A 29-YEAR-OLD mill worker suffered multiple injuries when he fell down a lift shaft. The incident happened at Maple Mill in Cardwell Street, Hathershaw — which is owned...
CHRONICLE reader Mark Beddow snapped this badly damaged Vauxhall Tigra following a smash in Greenfield. Police were called to Manchester Road at 12.30am on Friday to find the...
Crime Lake has been restocked with thousands of fish after pollution from water used to fight the Maple Mill fire killed off wildlife. Anglers were devastated last year when...
MP claims council housing transfer ballot was ‘a fiddle’ TENANTS have voted to transfer the ownership and management of council housing stock to First Choice Homes...
A MAN hurled slates at police officers after climbing on to the roof of a car breakers premises in Oldham. Edward Bambrough (26) injured the owner’s daughter when one of...
MEN and women will only share wards in an emergency at the Royal Oldham Hospital. The assurance comes from Marian Carroll, director of nursing for Pennine Acute Trust, and...
ONE of Oldham’s oldest residents today celebrates her 105th birthday. Eunice Lunn put her longevity down to enjoying a sing-a-long and an occasional tot of sherry....
SECURING jobs across Oldham will be the centrepiece of the election campaign for the town’s two current MPs. Both Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Phil Woolas and Oldham...
Oldham restoration expert Maysand was the specialist time team behind the repair of Liverpool’s historic Old Dock. The world’s first commercial enclosed wet dock...
PEDAL power is helping Chadderton Neighbourhood Policing Team fight crime. Two new bikes have been funded by Chadderton central councillors Eileen Hulme and councillor John...
WITH the general election only a month away, the main political parties are pushing their leader’s personalities as much as party policies in a bid to boost votes. Prime...
A pair of Chadderton campaigners are seeking help from people with long memories in a bid to get a town green. John Arnold and Joan McMahon have gone back to the drawing board...
St Mary’s school, Greenfield, had double cause to celebrate as two groups of pupils scooped trophies.. Guitarists from the school bagged first prize in the ensemble section of...
CORONATION Street fans can celebrate the soap’s 50th birthday at Gallery Oldham. A free lunch-time talk at the gallery will take fans through the show’s history...
Adults will soon be able to get a glimpse of what it is like to see the world through the eyes of a child. Saddleworth youngsters have began work on a giant digital mosaic....
Andrea Wilson Brown has been appointed managing director of BCH Digital Ltd. bringing to the telecoms provider more than 14 years of experience of the industry. The...
JUST weeks after the successful One Oldham Business Awards, the steering group behind the event is looking to 2011. Chairman Steve Kilroy, from BAE Systems, is ready to...
Recruitment business Travis Hughes, trading as Staff Oldham, has been appointed a Buying Solutions supplier to public sector organisations in the region. The business, with...
The acquisition of DHL Express (UK)’s domestic business-to-business and business-to-consumer packet and parcel delivery business by Shaw-based Home Delivery Network has been...
CHANNEL HOPPING: GENE HUNT fired up the Quattro again as “Ashes to Ashes” rolled up for a third and final series. An hour later, it was being flagged down and pulled...
RUGBY UNION: OLDHAM RU 3rds returned from Rochdale 4ths with a 22-12 victory. They raced into an early lead thanks to tries from Ryan Wan and Phil Walmsley, the second of...
GOLF: DAVE Melling’s sterling service as professional at Crompton and Royton has been acknowledged with a superb turn-out for a team event at the club. A shotgun...
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, Royal Exchange, Manchester. FORMER Paines Plough artistic director Roxana Silbert’s production of this shortest of Shakespeare’s works cuts...
Bob’s debt to United hero BOB Oag has Munich air disaster survivor Jackie Blanchflower to thank for his introduction to STAMFORD Golf Club. The new captain’s daughter,...
SNOOKER: MOSS INN ‘B’, newly-crowned champions of the Chadderton Snooker League, ended their campaign with a 3-3 draw against Springbank. Mick Webb compiled a...
TABLE TENNIS: THE battle for the runner-up position in the Oldham Table Tennis League first division is very tight. Werneth A currently lie second after an 8-2 win over...
TABLE TENNIS: THE juniors from the Oldham & District Table Tennis League achieved double success at the Halton Stadium competing in the fourth and final round of the...
SPORTS BETTING: ANYONE who enjoys watching top-flight golf looks forward to the Masters, the sport's first major of the year. But throw in Tiger Woods' return following...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards WOLVERHAMPTON 5.50 Athwaab 6.20 Colonel Sherman 6.50 Azlak 7.20...
