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IT’S business as usual at the Honeywell Centre despite chunks of the roof and a wall falling to the ground. Staff noticed the problem on Christmas Eve and fencing was...
Date Published 13/01/2010
ROWS of nervous students prepare to start their biology exams at Oldham Sixth Form College only a week after bad weather disrupted exam timetables. The Union Street college...
A NEW group for local businesses is hoping to build a better future for Oldham as the borough fights the recession. The Oldham Construction Sector Group (OCSG) aims to make...
TURNING 101 won’t stop Margaret Monk from getting her own way. The feisty centenarian, who only moved into Dryclough Manor, Royton, last March, is clinging on to her...
A mercy mission to save a marooned flock of sheep on snow-hammered moors in Saddleworth was called off after 48-hours of drama. Farmer Chris Crowther called in a helicopter...
MORE than 6,000 pensioners are missing out on an extra £100 to heat their homes during the big freeze as they fail to claim benefits to which they are entitled....
ATHLETIC may have suffered horribly with injuries this season, but Dale Stephens is one man you won’t hear complaining too loudly about that. The 20-year-old central...
The big freeze has left a museum’s prize exhibit staring at the skies. Heavy snow tipped the North East Aircraft Museum’s gigantic Avro Vulcan jet on to its tail,...
MICHAEL FOGERTY’S rugby league dream came true last night when he signed for the club he supported as a boy. The 28-year-old former Keighley Cougars and Rochdale Hornets...
GET out your sledge, dig out your skis and dust off your walking boots — Oldham Cancer Support Centre is ploughing ahead with a fund-raising night in Greenfield, despite the...
MANCHESTER United midfielder Darren Fletcher has spoken of his frustration at his red card against Birmingham City. The Scotland international was dismissed for two bookable...
THE TWO rugby codes are set to join forces in Oldham. The RFL’s ‘league for all’ officer Paul Scanlon-Wells and Steve Tyrrell, competitions manager with...
OLDHAMER Mark Flanagan is in Australia for a rugby league season with Wests Tigers and will be keeping Chronicle readers up to date with goings-on Down Under. G’DAY and a...
THE OLDHAM Players’ Association has enrolled with Rugby Oldham — already the largest supporters’ trust in rugby league — to boost membership to well over...
OLDHAM darts team surged nine points clear at the top of the Lancashire GMC Super Eights with a superb 10-0 win at Eccleston. It was the fine response from the town side after...
CRICKET: AN umpiring course at Royton Cricket Club, organised by the Association of Cricket Officials, starts next Tuesday (19th, 7.30pm). It runs for nine weeks at a cost of...
Ageing Italian trams — some of which will come to Oldham when the Metrolink extension is complete — are suffering from the effects of Arctic weather conditions....
THE weather has taken its toll in the Oldham Amateur Snooker League with only one result card being submitted, but the knockout draw did take place. Team knockout: Springbank...
SNOW-COVERED fairways and frost-bound greens can’t stop Martin Beaty from spreading the virtues of golf. The new Crompton and Royton professional visited Crompton House...
ROY McHugh, who was chief executive at Oldham Training Centre, has died. Mr McHugh, who was 64, and lived in Shaw all his life, started at what was then the Oldham Engineering...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards WOLVERHAMPTON 4.10 Excellent Show 4.40 Elite Land 5.10 Chosen...
UNHEALTHY lifestyles are sending a quarter of Brits to an early grave, according to new figures. Cigarettes, fatty food and booze are the three worst offenders But how...
CHANNEL HOPPING: SPRAINS, strains and slip-ups — our glorious gritters have prevented nearly all of them this Big Freeze . . . all that is, except for Oldham-born-and-fled...
HOME Delivery Network, the Oldham-based logistics arm of the Shop Direct home shopping giant, has itself gone on a shopping spree. It has reached agreement with Deutsche Post...
SENIOR figures from the private sector in Oldham are coming together to add their expertise to the way economic policy is made in the borough. The aim of the Oldham Business...
AN Oldham business woman has acquired the distribution rights to a PC-based tax system that aims to save money and at the same time significantly cut tax bills. Beverly...
HOME Delivery Network, the logistics business in Shaw with more than 550 employees, is the latest sponsor to back the One Oldham Business Awards. The company, owned by the...
Mystery surrounds school’s decision MYSTERY surrounds the shock suspension of Our Lady’s High School head teacher Roger Whitaker. The council, diocese and chairman of...
Date Published 12/01/2010
ALMOST £800,000 will be handed to Oldham as part of the biggest council house building programme for two decades. The £797,500 aid will support the construction of...
A 24-YEAR-OLD man had two teeth knocked out during a fight in Oldham town centre. The victim got into an argument with two men and two women in Union Street at 1.30am on January...
