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SQUASH: In a series of rearranged matches, which were postponed during the bad weather last month, Tame Valley’s first, third and fourth teams were all in action in the...
Date Published 17/02/2010
GOLF: BILLY Girdlestone won a card play-off against Mark Gill to win the latest Blackley Golf Club Winter League competition after scoring 41 Stableford points. Steve Newton...
BADMINTON: THOUGH the early part of the season was severely hampered by poor weather, things in the Oldham and Rochdale Badminton League have started to return to normal....
OLDHAM Athletic’s controversial new stadium plan has been given a welcome boost — from England’s 2018 World Cup bid. The proposed stadium at the bottom of...
AROUND 9,000 parking fines went uncollected by Oldham Council last year losing taxpayers £283,000. While motorists who paid promptly were penalised those that...
SPORTS BETTING: KEVIN Pietersen is hardly a man to shirk a challenge and, not for the first time in his colourful career, he faces a huge test of his ability and character....
A TEENAGER needed hospital treatment after he and two friends were attacked by a gang of around 20 Asian youths. James Howard (14) had his head stamped on and suffered a...
FOOTBALL: HEYSIDE under-16s girls booked their place in the final of the County Cup with a hard-fought 2-1 win over Deans. Emma Harte and Lucy Shaylor got the vital goals....
A DOZEN homes were left without power after a car crash brought down electricity cables and blocked a road in Scouthead. A Land Rover Discovery collided with a parked Honda...
IAN Potts (40), of Sanderson Close, Worsley, has been banned from attending football matches for four years after he assaulted a 46-year-old man during last year’s...
FOUR men who spent weeks plotting to steal from cash delivery vans, including a delivery to Morrison’s, Failsworth, in June last year, have been jailed. The men, from...
Fellow traders urged not to buy stolen cigarettes A NEWSAGENT is appealing for shopkeepers not to buy cut-price cigarettes after 2,000 packets were stolen in a smash-and-grab...
523 homes will be built; 463 others transformed PLANS to build 523 houses and refurbish 463 others to transform the gateways into Oldham are set to be given the green light...
BASKETBALL: Oldham Titans under-14s are in third place in the North-West Basketball League following their 89-52 defeat of Liverpool. Victory guaranteed them a place in the...
TESCO workers from Oldham employed at the Stakehill Industrial Estate are entering negotiations over their future. The supermarket giant has announced the closure of the the...
TRAFFIC officers have seized 50,000 vehicles from drivers without insurance or licences across Greater Manchester in the last five years. They’ve taken advantage of...
RUGBY: WATERHEAD under-16s stormed into the semi-finals of the North-West Counties Edge Hill Cup with a 52-4 battering of Latchford Albion Giants. The home team's nine tries...
TV “APPRENTICE” finalist James McQuillan swapped Alan Sugar’s boardroom for Oldham College. Finance and business students got tips on how to avoid the...
Move promises to improve patient care HEALTH chiefs say online records will improve patient care in Oldham. A new system is being launched in the borough that will allow...
Oldham is due a massive economic boost from plans for major railway improvements which would follow the arrival of Metrolink. The borough’s rail travellers could get...
MINISTERS are being urged their keep their promise to ease the region’s overcrowded trains. The Department for Transport (DfT) proposed 1,300 new carriages for the...
AN OLDHAM pub has teamed up with DJ and musician Clint Boon to brew an exclusive beer. The Up Steps Inn, High Street, wanted their new ale to honour an Oldham-born celebrity...
Counthill pupil closing in on national title OLDHAM’S Jack Ellender Connor defied the odds to book his place in the ABA National Extra semi-finals in Liverpool on...
Shaw’s Beal Hey Household Waste Centre has been revamped to improve the recycling facilities. It has stayed open but improvements which began in October are now...
A TEENAGER has swapped shin guards for a head guard. Perry King, from Chadderton, gave up football after breaking his right leg three times in nine months. And instead of...
STUDENTS at the Oldham College and local politicians were given the chance to visit a virtual–ageing booth to learn how to reduce the risk of becoming blind later in life....
Shoppers from Bury have voted Debenhams and Primark Oldham’s top attractions as the towns are linked by a bus service for the first time in six years. A survey carried...
Oldham Council has speeded up how it deals with benefit claims and bill payments. Out of 13 neighbouring authorities, Oldham is third best in terms of the time it takes new...
YOU can have sex, join the army and get married all before the age of 18. Now the Co-operative has launched a campaign to lower the voting age from 18 to 16. Reporter Karen...
SADDLEWORTH School enjoyed a notable sporting double with the girls under-13s being crowned North West Team Gymnastics Champions and the Year 7 basketball team winning the Oldham...
