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AMATEUR FOOTBALL: BRIAN MARRIOTT left Chadderton FC and Freehold in the spring of 1985 when, as a 22-year-old, he signed professional forms for Oldham Athletic under the watchful...
Date Published 22/01/2010
AMATEUR FOTBALL: KEITH DENNIS has one of the least glamorous jobs in local league football — fixtures secretary for the D&J Builders (North West) Ltd Oldham Sunday...
AMATEUR RUGBY LEAGUE: OLDHAM St Anne’s are dying to get back out onto the playing field — players and coach alike. It has now been six weeks since the Higginshaw...
ICE HOCKEY: MANCHESTER Phoenix player-coach Tony Hand is looking for a significant improvement in his team’s fortunes. Phoenix have won only four of their last 11...
RUGBY UNION: HOPES are high that Oldham RUFC will return from their enforced six-week break tomorrow, The Manor Park outfit, who have been thwarted by snow and ice since...
SNOOKER: ROYTON Cons and Tara Leisure, the joint leaders, went head to head in the Saw Tech Shaw Snooker League. It was advantage Royton after frame one of the...
BOWLS: MATCHES in Chadderton Cot’s Inbev Winter Bowling League continue this weekend. Tomorrow (‘B’ division): Prestwich v Failsworth at 9.45am; Vixens v...
ANGLING: BOYDEN Koupynicki, of Fox Match Black, and John Leeds went fish-for-fish in the opening Pennine Teams of Four Winter League on the Hebden Bridge lengths of the Rochdale...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
Pair chase off armed raiders with plastic stool A PAIR of have-a-go heroes chased off two gun-wielding robbers . . . with a plastic stool. Thieves burst into Bhana...
Date Published 21/01/2010
More pupils taught in mostly non-white classes PRIMARY schools in Oldham remain among the most segregated in the country nearly nine years after the town’s race riots....
Goalless draw leaves Latics in relegation zone DAVE PENNEY blamed rustiness for Athletic’s drab performance which left the team in relegation trouble in Coca-Cola League...
MEDICAL staff connected to Oldham Roughyeds will be working overtime in the coming days to try to get as strong a side as possible out for the big Law Cup derby. Like in the...
MORE than 1,000 homes across Oldham are still unfit to live in — despite a flagship Government pledge to bring them all up to scratch by this year. Now a watchdog has...
Athletic 0, Tranmere 0 SCINTILLATING, enthralling, mesmerising . . . all words that will not feature in this match report. To say this was a poor game would be a severe...
Whitehaven 40, Oldham 20 OLDHAM Roughyeds were defeated by Whitehaven in a testimonial game for former ace Howard Hill last night. After the original Sunday fixture fell...
Leading Liberal Democrats have been accused of leaving a political vacuum after the collapse of the Vance Miller trial. Oldham’s Labour opposition are deeply concerned...
Millwall’s bid for play-off berth hit by travel sickness THE SEASON for Millwall so far can be summed up in one word: frustration. Manager Kenny Jackett has watched his...
Park Life: WILL HAINING was a familiar name in an experienced Morecambe reserves line-up who saw off a callow Athletic side 4-0 at Ewen Fields on Tuesday night. Two goals...
CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans for three academies in Oldham say GCSE league tables show that pupils do better at community schools. Some 41 of the government’s flagship academies...
PARK LIFE: A HOST of Athletic fans helped to clear the Boundary Park pitch of snow last week following an appeal by the club. Every supporter who lent a hand last...
A ruling on whether disputed land at Failsworth Lower Memorial Park is a charitable trust could be revealed before the end of the month. The Charity Commission has told Oldham...
BOXING: OLDHAM’S Jack Ellender caused a huge upset by winning the North-West Region Extra Junior Novice ABA Championship at Gorton. His much more experienced and fancied...
UP THE ANTE with KEITH McHUGH UP The Ante returns this week with a look at arguably the trickiest race at this season’s Cheltenham Festival. The world and his wife are...
the number of people out of work in Oldham is down, in line with national figures which show that unemployment fell for the first time in almost two years and fewer people claimed...
SNOOKER: OLDHAM Snooker Academy ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams are riding high in their respective divisions in the Manchester Snooker League. Fresh from the...
POOL: THE Greater Manchester men and women’s pool teams are holding trials next month. If you think you are good enough to play a better standard of pool then go to...
600 profiles added for every one removed MORE than 600 DNA profiles of innocent people across Greater Manchester are being added to the national database for every one...
KASKENMOOR ran, jumped and bounced their way to the overall Oldham Sports Hall Athletics title at Radclyffe School. In the Year Eight competition, they showed their rivals a...
AN Oldham solicitor has helped a celebrity bodyguard win a £10,000 High Court payout after bungling cops kicked his door down and accused him of stealing his own car....
