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Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards WOLVERHAMPTON 4.35 Cheery Cat 5.05 Turf Time 5.35 Blue Bajan...
Date Published 21/01/2010
“Coronation Street” has been voted most popular soap in its 50th year at the National Television Awards, beating rival “EastEnders”. And Craig Gazey,...
Jabs recommended for tots aged six months to five years OLDHAM’S top health chief is urging parents to get their children vaccinated against swine flu. Alan Higgins,...
ROBBERS who stole money from an Oldham amusement arcade may have fled the scene by taxi. The masked trio threatened a female member of staff with a hammer before taking cash...
A POLICE campaign to target drink drivers over the festive season saw 15,000 drivers tested and 452 people arrested. There were 40 arrests in Oldham — the fifth highest...
Oldhamers who do not reach the age of 60 in the next 11 weeks will have to wait longer for their free bus pass. For the Government has decided to gradually raise the...
LOCAL doctors’ leader Kailash Chand is calling for tough action to radically overhaul the nation’s alcohol policy. The British Medical Association’s...
A HEAT-SEEKING van will undertake revolutionary new surveys of every home in Oldham to help residents save money and the environment. Oldham Council has given the go-ahead for...
Chadderton District Partnership reports CHADDERTON Precinct is to be given a £32,000 spruce-up to make it cleaner and more attractive. Residents have been crying out...
Failsworth & Hollinwood District Partnership reports ENVIRONMENTAL, safety and highways issues were the top three topics affecting residents in Failsworth and Hollinwood....
A COMPUTER course aimed at helping adults gain valuable IT skills will be piloted in Oldham. The Online Basics course will also run in Barnsley, London, Gloucester and Devon...
PAV’S PATCH: IT may not be politically correct to say so, but I have never quite felt the Europeans are like us. That’s not a slur on our cousins from across the...
BEATRIZ AYALA talks to the director and leading actor of the Coliseum’s first show of the New Year — a masterly dark comedy from the pen of Alan Ayckbourn at his peak
Fake ID swoop halts under-age drinkers Under-age drinkers have been warned to stay away from Oldham after police seized more than 80 fake IDs in a town centre crackdown....
Date Published 20/01/2010
Delighted campaigners opposing a controversial tip which they believe would have blighted a community were celebrating victory today. Residents living near Birks Quarry,...
A MAN fled his burning home in a major fire which destroyed the property and damaged four other houses. Residents in Smith Street, Lees, evacuated their houses at 3.40am today...
£15m cuts and £5m of new spending Opposition Labour councillors want to cut £15 million from council spending with their alternative budget — then...
‘Shocking’ breaches of hygiene lead to court A RESTAURANT owner has been sent to crown court for sentencing after admitting a series of “shocking”...
An Oldham man who brutally attacked a woman outside a nightclub, kicking her in the head as she lay helpless on the ground, has failed to win a cut in his sentence on appeal....
THE number of people unemployed across the region in this recession is almost half the 1992 levels. Unemployment in December, 1992, was 353,784 across the North-West compared...
OLDHAM Council is set to begin counting the cost of damage to roads caused by the recent big freeze. The cold snap has seen potholes appear or worsen on many of the...
DRUGGIES and vandals have ruined outdoor play for the toddlers at Fitton Hill’s only playgroup. Krafty Kids meet in a room at the New Bridge Learning Centre in St...
A sprightly green-fingered pensioner was shocked when a concrete lamp standard collapsed in her garden. For 81-year-old Myra Shiel had just finished replenishing food for the...
PEOPLE who own empty homes would be given cash to renovate the properties and bring them back into use, under Lib-Dem plans. Under the proposals more than 250,000 homes would...
A parish councillor has lashed sneak thieves who took the entire contents of a grit box usually used to clear the playground at entrances at a village school. Diggle Primary...
Pledge on taxes, jobs, children and politics Liberal Democrats will campaign locally on four priorities when the general election is called this year: fair taxes; a fair start...
POLICE are searching for a man who was working in Oldham and has gone missing. Slovak Jan Chromy was last seen at 5.30pm on Saturday when friends dropped him off near the...
OLDHAM will hold on to tradition as councils across the country axe late night election counts. Traditionally, ballot forms are collected from polling stations at 10pm before...
THE Home Office could intervene in the running of Greater Manchester Police unless plans to improve its performance succeed. Police chiefs, who admit crime in Greater...
Taylor and Abbott to boost Latics ATHLETIC boss Dave Penney has dropped a hint that Chris Taylor and Pawel Abbott WILL both start tonight’s important home game against...
