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SMALL is beautiful as far as new council housing developments are concerned, according to Oldham Council. The authority has made providing new affordable homes a key priority...
Date Published 23/02/2010
AN MP has accused Oldham Council of playing “Mickey Mouse politics” after an action group asking it to buy a controversial quarry site. The Birks Quarry Action...
MORE than 12,000 people in Oldham who juggle working with being a carer are set to benefit from a boost to their pensions. From April, anyone who is looking after someone for...
ATHLETIC manager Dave Penney isn’t likely to change a thing if he can help it for tonight’s big game at Leeds – save, of course, from his strikers finding the...
SEAN WHITEHEAD has rejoined the board at Oldham Roughyeds to work alongside chairman Chris Hamilton. Sean, who stepped down from the board nearly two years ago because of...
THE postcode lottery where arthritis patients across Oldham are having three times more spent on them than some other areas must be stopped, MPs warned today. Sufferers do not...
WEST HAM old boy, Rio Ferdinand, is set to return from suspension to bolster Manchester United’s defence against the Londoners at Old Trafford tonight. The...
Oldham 22, Sheffield 24 A PENALTY four minutes from time by John Coleman tipped the Roughyeds’ final Northern Rail Cup pool game decisively the way of visitors Sheffield...
LEEDS United’s season appears to be teetering on the brink of collapse at the moment. Currently second in Coca-Cola League One, Simon Grayson’s stuttering side are...
NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: OLDHAM Boro old boys Leon Melia and James Curley, who lead the line at rivals Chadderton, add further spice to the eagerly-awaited local derby at the...
AMATEUR RUGBY: A REMARKABLE comeback from Oldham St Anne’s saw them come from 14 points down to see off Egremont Rangers in National Conference League division two. The...
LANCASHIRE County Cricket Club’s striking new £15 million conference and events venue, The Point, has now reached a key milestone in its construction —...
RUGBY UNION: OLDHAM Rugby Union 4th/Vets turned in a superb effort as they won 18-5 at Hope Valley 1st to end the unbeaten record of the leaders of Division 5 East of the Miller...
DR Kershaw’s Hospice is tapping in to a new money-maker — selling collectors’ items on eBay. It netted a massive £740 for a grandfather clock donated...
WATERLOO and Taunton clinched the Inbev Winter Bowling League’s ‘A’ Division title with a 10-1 demolition of Nimble Nook. The two teams swept away snow from...
A MAN who “glassed” his best pal during a play fight that got out of hand, has been spared jail. Daniel Barlow (27), of Anchor Street, Oldham, lashed out at Mark...
TABLE TENNIS ROUND-UP: GROTTON’S Shaun Ellis turned in the top Division 1 performance of the second round of the Oldham Table Tennis League handicap competition. He...
AN Oldham bus company is in talks with transport chiefs about stopping “over bussing” in busy areas. First Manchester — based in Walshaw Street and the...
A SOARING number of pets have been dumped in Oldham as a result of the recession. Pennine Pen Animal Rescue in Hathershaw has taken in a number of dogs whose owners can no...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards KEMPTON 5.30 Zero Cool 6.00 Brave Talk 6.30 Dvinsky 7.00 Sutton Veny...
GREATER Manchester Police has played good Samaritan to Oldham Mountain Rescue Team by donating a 12-seater minibus to help support their efforts. Sgt Craig Johnson, based at...
Quilts were made in stately homes, humble cottages, Amish communities in America and convicts on their way to Australia. From prosaic coverlets made out of necessity from scraps...
A MAJOR campaign to make people more aware of the devastating affects of strokes, and how to avoid having one is being launched across Oldham. The Stroke Association is...
chip shops across the country are the surprising heroes of local language. A study into chip eating habits, commissioned for National Chip Week, shows that the chip shop...
IT was love at second sight for Oldham-born entertainer Janice Yorke and her pop star fiancee Robert Young. The pair first met in the 70s when Janice (54) from Chadderton was...
Gig of the week Lost Prophets, Manchester Apollo, Thursday WELSH rockers Lost Prophets have been around the block a few times since they got together in 1997. The band...
Don’t miss Fun Lovin Criminals, Manchester Academy, March 6 The uber-cool New York trio sound like no one else and it’s only when you hear them again that you...
SWEDISH rock band Europe are hitting the UK on a whistlestop tour to promote their new album “Last Look At Eden”. Best known for their 1986 anthem “The Final...
TONIGHT: The Federals — Moho Live; First Aid Kit — Deaf Institute; Reamonn — Club Academy; Swing Out Sister — Band on the Wall; The Heavy — Ruby...
WHAT KATI DID NEXT: I found myself in Manchester city centre today. I was parched and I had a meeting with someone, so I went into The Palace Hotel where I was seated on a...
