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RUGBY League legend Paul Sculthorpe puts pupils through their paces at his old school of Counthill. The former Great Britain captain has been running regular weekly sessions...
Date Published 09/12/2009
SPORTS AND SHOWBIZ BETTING: HOT favourites for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award have the alarming habit of being pipped at the post. Lewis Hamilton, the 2008...
ROTARIANS and schoolchildren joined forces to bring Christmas cheer to deprived youngsters. The Rotary Club of Crompton and Royton linked with three local schools to provide...
HIGH Crompton Park is now dazzling in festive spirit after youngsters helped turn on the Christmas lights. St Mary’s School Band entertained with music at the event...
PLANS to extend a mosque in a terraced house in Shaw were given the go-ahead by Shaw and Crompton Parish Council Planning Committee. The Mohammedia Masjid and Islamic Centre...
Mayor and Mayoress of Oldham, councillors Jim McArdle and Kay Knox, got to grips with the town centre ice rink which has played host to 800 children from primary schools across...
A FORMER chairman of Oldham Cricket Club who was instrumental in signing two West Indies cricketers to the club has died. Leonard Jump, known as Len, died on Friday at the...
LOCAL schools looking to recruit a head teacher now have a whole new wealth of talent to choose from. For 41 teachers in the North-West have just gained the National...
OLDHAM Ladies hockey club qualified two teams for the next round of the Greater Manchester All Divisions Cup, which operates on a handicap basis. The first team played...
Politicians and protesters at the Copenhagen climate change conference have put global warming into the headlines again this week. But after leading scientists were accused of...
OLDHAM crooner Paul Speak-Heaton beat thousands of singers from all over the country to be crowned champion of Open Mic UK 2009. Paul, of Ruthin Close, Hollinwood, beat 8,000...
THE fear of losing their hair through chemotherapy could soon be a thing of the past for local breast cancer patients. For the Royal Oldham Hospital is offering a new...
THORP are setting a breakneck pace in the Oldham Primary Schools Cross-Country League. They hold a big lead over Hodge Clough (218pts) after the latest round at Stoneleigh...
MORE than 100 young Shaw and Crompton musicians gathered for a spectacle of music to delight a full house. The occasion was Shaw and Crompton Parish Council’s annual...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections for tomorrow’s meetings:
FITNESS fans and bookworms flocked to the new Chadderton Well-being Centre to test out facilities during its open weekend. The £17million facility boasts a 25-metre...
TOY supplier Character Group, which has its distribution hub in Oldham, returned to profit in the second half of this year after it was hit hard by the closure of Woolworths....
SADDLEWORTH-based national construction company Johnson Group has become the 10th sponsor of the 2010 One Oldham Business Awards. The Delph business, which also has offices in...
TWO Oldham men who established a manufacturing business in 2005 have created a offshoot aimed at the domestic market. Paul McNally, (40), from Shaw, and Duncan Brickhill,...
ALADDIN, Opera House, Manchester, by Paul Genty For years, the Manchester pantos have concentrated on big names and flashy sets but have often missed out on the comfortable,...
THE MILL, Lowry, Salford, by Beatriz Ayala PHYSICAL theatre, aerial artistry and a huge spinning wheel suspended 20ft in the air took centre stage at the Lowry last night...
CHANNEL HOPPING: TRAPPED, covered in bugs and scrambling around in a snakes’ nest with little room for manoeuvre.... But enough about my dodgy digital TV retuning...
A GRANDAD is celebrating a Christmas miracle after getting the all-clear from bowel cancer. After five weeks of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, Bryn Dunkerley (52) was...
Date Published 08/12/2009
EXCITING plans to build a £2.8 million Sportszone in Fitton Hill have been scrapped after a last-ditch funding blow. New Deal for Communities (NDC) has been unable to...
A MAN had two teeth knocked out in a brutal attack in Chadderton. It is also feared that the 53-year-old suffered a ruptured spleen when two thugs stamped and punched him....
A POPULAR Christmas toy distributed by a Lees firm has undergone more tests following a safety scare. Character Options, based at Leesbrook Mill, said its Go Go Hamsters...
A MAN was threatened with a machete and a kitchen knife in Failsworth. The 22-year-old was hit on the back of the head by two armed men in an alleyway on Partington Street in...
Visitors of all ages enjoyed the seasonal music and merriment on offer at Santa’s Festive Village in Oldham town centre. Barry McQueen, town crier for Blackpool, was...
SINGING servicemen The Soldiers were banned from wearing uniforms at the Royal Variety Performance last night. The trio, who include Sgt Richie Maddocks from Oldham, were...
FOOTBALL clubs are taking advantage of their loyal fans — despite the recession, it has been claimed. Clubs are charging as much as £92 for match day tickets, the...
