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Fire-fighters Peter Stevenson and Mike Dewar visited a Shaw school to share their Haiti experience with pupils. Peter, from Royton, and Chadderton-based Mike were part of a...
Date Published 25/02/2010
SURVEYING THE COUNCIL: OLDHAM’S Tories hope to hold the balance of power after May’s local elections and they practiced their balancing act at Oldham Council last...
RUDDIGORE, Lowry THIS is more like it. After Tuesday night’s slightly low-key performance of Puccini’s Bohemian rhapsody, Opera North gets it pretty well bang on...
PAV’S PATCH: MY son arrived home from school the other day and told me that he and his classmates had watched a film of a woman giving birth. When it finished, the...
WEDDING bliss in Chadderton turned to honeymoon horror when the bridegroom plunged to his death from a Spanish hotel balcony. Distraught bride Sarah Waddington sobbed at an...
Date Published 24/02/2010
POLICE have declared that a vicious assault in Westwood was racially motivated. The Chronicle revealed on Monday that four white teenagers were jumped by a group of seven...
EXTRA train carriages are on their way to ease the daily overcrowding nightmare of Oldham’s commuters. A high-level delegation was at Westminster today to protest that...
A recently-published report on the future of the railways gives fresh hope for a station in the village. However, passengers could have a long wait as the report says it may...
MASKED robbers held a knife to a shopkeeper’s throat during a robbery in Hathershaw. Two men wearing balaclavas threatened the 37-year-old victim with 12-in knives at...
AN OLDHAM MP has waded into the Downing Street bullying row branding the charity boss who alleged No 10 staff had called a helpline a “prat of a woman”. Oldham...
A GREATER Manchester police operation saw 26 people in Oldham arrested in connection with assault and drugs offences. Homes were raided as part of Friday’s Operation...
A GROUP of Shaw residents look set to campaign against a development of 80 houses — but have held out an olive branch to the applicants. As revealed in the Chronicle,...
ATHLETIC manager Dave Penney urged his side to up their collective game for the visit of Coca-Cola League One leaders Norwich City to Boundary Park this weekend. A poor...
A 37-year-old Oldham man turned to the Internet to learn how to grow cannabis, because it was costing him too much to feed his habit, a court was told. David Moss started...
A 23-year-old who attacked two men in an Oldham town centre pizza parlour because he thought they were staring at him has been told he was fortunate not have seriously...
OLDHAM RL Club received a huge boost last night in the build-up to Sunday’s first league game against Swinton Lions when winger Lucas Onyango was cleared of a dangerous...
MOTORISTS are urged to take extra care at the Elk Mill roundabout as the traffic lights are turned off. Power supply problems are being investigated and warning signs have...
Leeds 2, Athletic 0 Toothless Latics go down with a whimper THERE are defeats, then there are defeats. Against in-form Colchester at their home fortress three days...
A RESTAURANT owner whose filthy kitchen was overrun by mice has escaped a fine. Angor Miah, of the Chilli restaurant and takeaway, Huddersfield Road, Oldham, had already...
An SOS appeal has saved the historic canopy from Mumps railway station. It will now be used to provide authentic shelter at the vintage East Lancs Railway between Rawtenstall...
Season ticket holders get Whitebank Stadium tour RUGBY: OLDHAM Roughyeds season ticket holders have been given an exclusive first glimpse into the proposed plans for the...
HEAVILY pregnant Phoebe was dumped at a Hathershaw animal centre along with Bobo, the father of her unborn litter. Staff at Pennine Pen found the cats near bins outside their...
AMBITIOUS plans to boost children’s health services across the region have brought a new neonatal nurse to Oldham. Faye Bushell is one of 50 extra neonatal nurses to be...
Fabio Capello looks likely to plan England’s friendly with Egypt next week with a new captain in mind after Rio Ferdinand’s latest injury scare. Three games into...
Public sector workers across Oldham could become their own boss under new Conservative plans, backed by Kashif Ali, the local Tory spokesman. Mr Ali, prospective candidate for...
Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini is confident his team knows what it will take to find a way into the FA Cup quarter-finals. This evening’s fifth–round replay...
RUGBY: TONY Benson felt his side could and should have beaten Sheffield Eagles on Monday night. A promising display ended in disappointment as the club exited the Northern...
Police are on the look-out for extra special residents to help them tackle crime and anti-social behaviour in their community. The Oldham West Neighbourhood Policing Team is...
GORDON Brown hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons following claims he is a bullying boss. Claims were also made by an anti-bullying charity boss that its helpline had...
IT finished honours even in last night’s Vodkat North-West Counties League division one local derby as Oldham Boro fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 against...
