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POLICE are urging a missing 15-year-old girl from Royton to get in touch with them. Clare Halliday was reported missing from her home in Albion Gardens last Wednesday....
Date Published 01/04/2010
RUGBY LEAGUE: OLDHAM St Anne’s continue to set the pace in the 2009/10 Rugby Oldham Amateur Club Challenge. They are riding high despite going down to Stanley Rangers in...
A DISQUALIFIED motorist who fled from a police patrol because he feared he was over the drink-drive limit has been jailed. Nicholas Fox (20) led his pursuers on a high speed...
HOCKEY: OLDHAM’S hopes of clinching the Greater Manchester Women’s Hockey League division one title are over for another season. The local outfit had to beat...
Oldham’s council cabinet has given the green light on a £2 million scheme to build 12 new council houses. Clyde Street, Watersheddings, will get two three-bedroom...
G’DAY from Sydney, where the weather is cooling down and the ‘footy’ season has started. Our trial matches went well with Wests Tigers winning two from...
A POLICE hunt is under way to snare a robber who told a terrified cashier he had a gun. He then ordered the woman to fill a plastic bag with cash before fleeing with some money....
Phone box hoax A LANDMARK phone box in one of Saddleworth’s prettiest villages was at the centre of an April Fool’s hoax. The familiar red phone is a feature...
AMATEUR FOOTBALL: CHADDY End lock horns with Jolly Carter (Droylsden) in the last four of the North-West Champion of Champions Cup at Flixton Valley’s ground tomorrow...
INDOOR GAMES: LEADERS Tara Leisure were whitewashed 6-0 by third-placed Moss Inn to throw the Saw-Tech Shaw League title race wide open. Royton Cons, in second, came from...
BITTER winds greeted stallholders setting up today’s annual Road End Fair in Greenfield. The Maundy Thursday market is one of the country’s oldest thriving traditions,...
A MOTORIST suffered a cut hand during a struggle with a potential carjacker in Royton. The 36-year-old driver was sitting in his Citroen Picasso car when a man grabbed him...
MORE than £660,000 will be given to Oldham council to help pay for adaptations at homes of disabled people so they can live comfortably and independently. The allocation...
THE Government must provide assurances lives will not be put at risk and public safety compromised under plans to move all 999 emergency fire calls from Greater Manchester to...
Oldhamers believe community cohesion is worse in the borough than other parts of the country. A so-called quality of life scorecard published by the Government looks at what...
PAV’S PATCH: IT’S April 1, All Fools’ Day and not, as you might have suspected, my birthday. There’s another 11 days until I reach the big...
INDOOR CRICKET: SHAW were crowned Oldham Cricket Development Under-11s Indoor League champions after clinching a 17-run victory over title rivals Royton One. Batting first in...
Worst home turn-out for 25 years sees latest blow to survival hopes UNDER-FIRE Athletic boss Dave Penney felt his side should have kicked on after opening the scoring against...
Date Published 31/03/2010
Athletic 2, Brentford 3 2,833 FANS WITNESS LATICS’ EIGHTH HOME DEFEAT OF THE SEASON ANOTHER day, another desperately disappointing result at Boundary Park. The...
TWO of the Roughyeds' bright young prospects are battling against injury and hoping for a change of luck Hooker Austen Barrowclough scored three tries in the reserves'...
EDWIN van der Sar insists Manchester United can cope without Wayne Rooney. United face an anxious wait to discover the extent of the ankle injury the striker suffered in the...
Transport axe fuels isolation fears A SEVERELY disabled woman is in danger of becoming housebound when a vital transport service is axed tomorrow. Adele Melia relies on...
FOOTBALL: MOSSLEY and Skelmersdale United will try again in UniBond League division one north tonight. The fixture, which was postponed last night because of a waterlogged...
GOLF: P AND S Dunkerley won Brookdale captain Derek Miller’s drive-in, a four-ball, better-ball Stableford, with 41 points. Second were M Isaacs and D Cooper (40), ahead...
£1m lottery award for Dunwood revamp DUNWOOD Park is set for a million-pound makeover thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Oldham Council has been awarded...
A SPEEDING show-off young driver who killed a motorcyclist and left a woman permanently disabled, has been locked up for three years. Dad-of-two Roy Ashton (46) was catapulted...
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AN Oldham school which closes this summer is bowing out in a blaze of glory. Counthill School has shrugged off its troubled past, and made a complete turnaround just months...
NETBALL: TITLE hopefuls Northern Thunder followed up a 61-39 defeat of Leeds Carnegie with an equally emphatic 67-38 win at home to Glasgow Wildcats in the Co-operative Netball...
DREAMS of bringing a touch of Tinsel Town glamour to Hollinwood are still alive. Local business man Frank Rothwell says a new sign on a major road in Basildon will add weight...
