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NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: AFTER three successive draws, John Flanagan continues his search for a first win as manager of Mossley at Hurst Cross tonight (kick-off 7.45pm). The...
Date Published 16/02/2010
This 14-year-old girl has been missing for over a week and could be in Oldham. Nafisa Diyar was last seen at 7 40pm on February 6, when she told staff at Rough Bank Farm care...
AMATEUR RUGBY LEAGUE: SADDLEWORTH Rangers bounced back from an unexpected league defeat at the hands of Thornhill Trojans to move into the semi-finals of the Standard Cup....
CUSTOMERS and staff at the Co-op in Lees were thanked for helping to smash a multi-million-pound charity target. A series of fund-raising events were held among Co-operative...
CHARITY bosses are calling for a halt to plans to charge charities up to £20 million more a year to play music. Senior figures from more than a dozen major UK charities,...
GREATER Manchester Fire Authority has confirmed its lowest ever council tax increase of 2.5 per cent. It means the average household will pay £1 a week in 2010 for the Fire...
CAR thefts have risen across Greater Manchester as temperatures have fallen. Thieves have stolen 34 cars in snowy conditions since the start of this year. The vehicles...
RUGBY UNION: TWO moments of ill discipline cost Oldham RU dearly as they slipped to a 14-3 home defeat to Furness in North Lancs/Cumbria division. Defeat for Oldham,...
ICE HOCKEY: GREG WOOD is the second player to commit himself to Manchester Phoenix for next season. Joining captain Luke Boothroyd, the 23-year-old put pen to paper...
TEENAGERS in Shaw now have their own trendy lounge where they can chill-out with friends in safety. High School Lounge is a unique nightspot exclusively for secondary pupils...
Pancakes were on the menu for little chefs learning all about the Shrove Tuesday tradition. Youngsters at the Giggle and Grow Day Nursery, in Horsedge Street, Oldham, helped to...
TABLE TENNIS: DIVISION 1 leaders Glodwick beat Saddleworth CC 7-3 in the Oldham Table Tennis League thanks to a maximum from Jeff Craighill and a double from Mark Ramsbottom....
WHAT KATI DID NEXT: I know it was some time ago now. In the land of the celebrity, it’s so old-hat I should be thrown out of the country for even mentioning it. But can...
CHART-TOPPER Owl City takes inspiration for his tracks from his daydreams and imagination. But it’s a formula that clearly works as he’s selling out venues all...
Hot Chip, Manchester Academy, Friday The quintet — Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard, Al Doyle, Felix Martin and Owen Clarke — have just released their fourth album,...
30 Seconds to Mars Manchester Arena, Saturday: Film star Jared Leto showed the world he was more than just a pretty-faced actor when he formed a band with his brother Shannon....
LEES/SPRINGHEAD clinched the Inbev Winter Bowling League’s ‘B’ Division title thanks to their 8-3 defeat of Lower Failsworth on Chadderton Cot’s artificial...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards KEMPTON 5.10 Lytham 5.40 Breathless Kiss 6.10 Absa Lutte 6.40...
ROCKING quintet The Rumble Strips are hitting the road to treat fans to tracks from their new album “Welcome to the Walk Alone”. The band will play...
TONIGHT: Iglu and Hartly — Moho Live; Stornoway, Beth Jeans Houghton — Band on the Wall; Fear Factory — Academy 2; Le Magnum — Pure. TOMORROW:...
THREE points to the good after a solid performance against Walsall, Athletic manager Dave Penney now expects his side to finish the season well out of danger in Coca-Cola League...
Date Published 15/02/2010
OLDHAM Roughyeds have asked the Rugby Football League for permission to hold back their home game against Sheffield Eagles to next Monday night. The plan is to play the...
Athletic 1, Walsall 0 Abbott to the rescue after Penney heckled by home fans FAN frustration turned to joy as Athletic picked up three points which could turn out to be so...
Hunslet 28, Oldham 14 THE OVERRIDING feeling after this was that it was a match that got away. Roughyeds, travelling to face a club well-fancied to claim the Co-operative...
Red tape confusion over stadium plans Oldham Athletic’s stadium dream is back in limbo because charity experts can’t make up their mind if land at the heart of the...
Patrick Vieira insists he made the right decision in joining Manchester City. Within days of Vieira making his first start for the Blues following a transfer window move from...
A major construction company has been fined £185,000 after an Oldham worker was almost killed by a reversing truck. Michael Gresty, from Chadderton, was helping to build...
Youth club plan by kitchen boss CONTROVERSIAL kitchens boss Vance Miller wants Oldham Council to give him the dilapidated town hall as compensation for a bungled fraud trial....
AN Oldham mental health nurse accused of frog-marching an elderly woman across the room because she picked food off another patient’s plate has had the case against him...
A shopkeeper has been cleared of sexually assaulting a schoolgirl in a storeroom at the premises in Oswaldtwistle. Mahmood Jan (24) was found not guilty after a four-day trial...
