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PARK LIFE: Confidence high as midfield ace breaks his scoring duck DALE STEPHENS is backing himself to get on the scoresheet more often for Athletic. The 20-year-old...
Date Published 11/03/2010
OLDHAM Council’s cabinet members will discuss a land swap deal with the Charity Commission as plans for a new Latics stadium gain momentum. The club’s plans to...
PARK LIFE: Chairboys face huge task to avoId drop WYCOMBE face a heck of a job to save themselves from the drop to League Two. Athletic's 2-0 win over Leyton Orient...
Fahy hits back after Greater Manchester Police rated second-worst force in Britain CRIME in Greater Manchester has dropped by 13 per cent leading to increased public...
PARK LIFE: THE attendance of 3,126 for the home game against Leyton Orient was Athletic's lowest for a league fixture at Boundary Park for nine years. You have to go back...
A drunken Derker thug who left a man with a bleed on his brain after a racist attack has been jailed for 18 months. Graham Paul Smith (23), of Acre Lane, admitted...
Football League bosses have revealed a key set of dates for next season. Athletic will start their 2010-11 campaign with a game on Saturday, August 7, with a Carling Cup...
NETBALL: NORTHERN Thunder enhanced their prospects of reaching the Grand Final with a 62-32 win at Celtic Dragons in the Co-operative Netball Superleague. Although the...
VIOLENT town-centre crime has plummeted thanks to a crackdown on cheap booze promotions. New figures from Greater Manchester Police reveal a substantial drop in disorder after...
AMATEUR RUGBY: HIGGINSHAW’S decision to rest key players with the semi-final of Standard Cup in mind backfired as they were beaten 16-13 at home to Leyland Warriors in...
TRANSPORT chiefs have welcomed plans for a tram, bus and car interchange at Mumps when Metrolink comes to Oldham town centre. Councillor Richard Knowles, chairman of...
AMATEUR RUGBY: AT LAST! Hollinwood got off the mark in division four of the Pennine League at the 15th attempt. Lee Bayliss’ side have shown improved of late and...
AN Oldham MP was today calling for an independent inquiry into the justification of new nuclear reactors. Oldham West and Royton MP Michael Meacher was due to speak at an...
AMATEUR RUGBY: OLDHAM St Anne’s are setting the pace in the 2009/10 Rugby Oldham Challenge. The table, based on the average number of points picked up in games...
BADMINTON: UNBEATEN Dons boosted their title hopes in Division 1 of the Oldham and Rochdale Badminton League with a 15-0 win at Saddleworth A, where Pete Ramsden, Neil...
Snooker: THE top two teams played each other in the Saw Tech Shaw Snooker League and the honours were shared. Tara Leisure took the first frame but D Wood hit back...
THE victim of a vicious assault has offered a reward if two witnesses come forward with evidence. As revealed by the Evening Chronicle yesterday, Zafar Ali Khan (26) suffered...
FOOTBALL: A QUICK double wrecked Oldham under-15s’ hopes of progress in the County Cup and North-West Alder Owen Trophy. The clash against Manchester was deemed as a...
THE Cheltenham Festival is less than a week away and in tonight’s Up The Ante, Chronicle racing correspondent KEITH McHUGH nominates his early fancies for the meeting....
THEATRE goers can step back in time at the Oldham Coliseum as the cast of the latest production take to the stage. And “A Nightingale Sang” is a bittersweet comedy...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards WOLVERHAMPTON 5.35 Steel City Boy 6.20 Turf Time 6.50 Clear Sailing...
PAV’S PATCH: DON’T ask me why, but I recently found myself thinking about kissograms. Around 25 years ago they were massively popular and now, in 2010, I can’t remember the...
Historic bridge to make way for trams OLDHAM’S iconic Mumps Bridge will be knocked down to encourage more visitors to Oldham town centre when Metrolink arrives....
Date Published 10/03/2010
THE agonising wait is continuing for the family of kidnapped Shaw boy Sahil Saeed. A week after the five-year-old was snatched at gunpoint from his grandmother’s house...
Hoardings have gone up around Royton Assembly Hall as Oldham Council gets tough with developers Whispers. The council threatened enforcement action in August last year to...
IT was hugs all round for a pair of students who clinched the world hugging record at Boundary Park yesterday. Faisal Mohyud-Din (18) and Mohammed Azeem (21) began the...
Oldham councillors are supporting their political parties from their civic allowances, says a local independent councillor. Saddleworth parish councillor Ken Hulme says the...
Newcomers make 52 arrests in six weeks NEW police recruits to neighbourhood teams have proved their worth after making dozens of arrests for drug-dealing and burglary. Six...
ACTION is needed to tackle abuse and violence in Oldham’s schools, according to a Conservative Parliamentary spokesman. Government figures revealed 40 children from...
TWO Asian men were badly beaten by a gang in a racist attack in Oldham. Zafar Ali Khan (26) suffered a broken arm and both he and father-in-law Sikander Khan (50) were left...
