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JASON PRICE has been backed by boss Dave Penney to provide some missing nous to the Athletic front line. The 32-year-old has arrived on a month’s loan from Coca-Cola...
Date Published 02/02/2010
An Oldham teacher has become a children’s author after creating bed time stories for his son and daughter. And now Richard Knight’s first novel “Winter...
OLDHAM RL are to release a statement concerning the venue for Sunday’s home Northern Rail Cup pool game against Hornets RL tomorrow. Further talks were held over the...
NOT so much evolution as revolution. That is the state of play at Stockport County — on the playing side, at least. While the club as a whole remains in...
STARS from Channel Four soap “Hollyoaks” swapped Chester for Chadderton as they donned their football boots for a charity match. Oldham Sunday League team...
A RAISIN IN THE SUN, Royal Exchange, Manchester IN case you are wondering, the title of Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning drama of family life comes from a poem and is...
WHAT KATI DID NEXT: When we moved into this house, a few years ago, one of the most important things for us both was an outside space. We had lived in terrace houses for a...
NON LEAGUE FOOTBALL: AFTER a false start — last weekend’s fixture at Radcliffe Borough was postponed because of a frozen pitch — new Mossley manager John...
BEATS: MOULD-breaking indie rockers The Maccabees will headline the infamous NME Awards Tour which rolls into Manchester this week. Joining them on the road will be Bombay...
ICE HOCKEY: Manchester Phoenix will face Milton Keynes Lightning in the semi-finals of the English Premier League Cup. Tony Hand's side will host the league leaders on...
BEATS: BRETT Anderson may be best known for his chart topping work with Brit poppers Suede. But the 42-year-old crooner is fast becoming a household name in his own right and...
BEATS: Band on the Wall, Manchester, Saturday Mr Scruff, Macclesfield DJ Andy Carthy, has taken up residency at the newly refurbished Manchester hotspot. He is well known...
RUGBY UNION: OLDHAM RU Vets were the only one of the local club’s teams to get in a game at the weekend, their away match at Burnley being switched to Colne &...
BEATS: THEIR live shows are said to be a riot of colour and flavour so Manchester has got high hopes for Cobra Starship’s city centre gig. The band, Gabe Saporta, Ryland...
TABLE TENNIS: Coldhurst A continued their march to the Division 2 title with an 8-2 defeat of nearest rivals Honeywell C in the Oldham Table Tennis League. Paul Howarth and...
INBEV BOWLS: WATERLOO and Taunton returned to the top of the Inbev Winter Bowling League’s ‘A’ Division following their 9-2 defeat of New Street and previous...
BEATS: TONIGHT: Twenty Twenty — Roadhouse; Oceansize — Academy 3; Marconi Union — Band on the Wall; Thao with The Get Down Stay Down — Deaf Institute;...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
February 2010 GOLDEN FLEECE, 41 Oldham Road, Denshaw 01457 874910 THE snow hadn't gone but the roads were at least passable again and we were contemplating where to go for a...
February 2010 VALENTINO'S RISTORANTE, 8 Retiro Street Oldham OL1 1SA 0161-624 6002 IT'S now over 12 years since Sebastian and Anna opened Valentino's, tucked away on Retiro...
Nursery manager leaps into action after pupil stops breathing A modest nursery school manager was today praised after she saved the life of a three-year-old toddler. Janet...
Date Published 01/02/2010
OLDHAMERS will pay 5.6 per cent more for their public transport services this year – but the lion’s share of the rise will help pay to bring Metrolink to the town....
Historic building at centre of major scheme A MAJOR regeneration scheme is to bring Failsworth Town Hall back into use. Around £2.2million will be spent on...
OLDHAM has been named in the top ten of the riskiest places in the UK for motor thefts. Insurer Endsleigh’s annual Motor Theft Index shows the number of vehicle crimes...
WORK to assess the state of Oldham’s crumbling old town hall has reached new heights. A remote-controlled helicopter with a camera was used to hover over the listed...
Oldham is to have its own charity fund raising beer festival this year thanks to a campaigning pub landlady. Jo Potter is spearheading the launch of the event which will be...
THE victim of a council-tax rebate phone scam has spoken about her ordeal in a bid to warn others to beware. The 30-year-old victim, who does not want to be named, was...
Oldham households have to recycle batteries from today under new EU rules. All waste batteries will have to be recycled under the new batteries directive. It aims to put...
A FAILSWORTH soldier’s campaign to get a national medal for all members of the UK’s armed forces has been backed by local councillors. Lance Cpl Scott Leach serves...
A NATIONAL reporting centre opens in Manchester today to target fraud. Greater Manchester Police is supporting Action Fraud, saying it will build on its current success in...
