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RUGBY UNION: OLDHAM Rugby Union A team made a trip into the unknown for their Raging Bull Trophy game, away to Whitchurch, and bowed out of the competition 18-10. It was...
Date Published 24/11/2009
GOLF: WERNETH Cricket Club stalwart Jack Roscoe has been recognised for his many years’ service to his club and the Central Lancashire Cricket League. Jack, a Werneth...
TABLE TENNIS: MARK RAMBSBOTTOM kept his 100-per-cent record in a 7–3 win for league leaders Glodwick over BAE A in the Oldham Table Tennis League first division, but there...
SHOW JUMPING: SCHOOLGIRL Jess Greenwood, one of Oldham’s top netball players, has quit the sport to pursue her dream of becoming a leading showjumper. The 14-year-old...
INBEV BOWLS: LEES/SPRINGHEAD’S relentless march towards the Inbev Winter Bowling League’s ‘B’ Division title continued when they defeated the only other...
OLDHAM Ladies continued their impressive start to the new hockey season with a 6-0 win at Manchester University 3rd. Following hot on the heels of winning the Greater...
THE draw for the Manchester Log-End Federation Inter-League competition sees the Oldham Red Rose Leisure League having to travel to play the Ardwick Mixed League in a preliminary...
A MEETING between residents and councillors in Hollinwood had to be abandoned following a heated spat — over dog dirt. The Failsworth and Hollinwood District Partnership...
A website which gave worried Saddleworth villagers a chance to air their views on a convicted paedophile house-hunting in their community has been closed down. The site was...
A DEVASTATED family have spoken of their loss after the body of a Royton builder was found after falling through a roof. Father-of-two Mike McAiney was discovered by police...
A SHOLVER newsagent discovered a man’s body in Swift Road this morning. Rana Akram, who owns RMA News in Colleridge Road, went to investigate at 7am after a customer...
Nightclub books top 10 finalists from hit show THEY may have been kicked off “The X Factor” but Jedward fans can get their fix when the gruesome twosome come to...
Drums filled with a flammable, cancer-causing chemical have been dumped on an Oldham street — and council taxpayers will foot the bill to have them removed....
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections for tomorrow’s meetings:
MEMBERS of a railway pressure group are demanding answers to the mystery of vanishing car parking spaces at one of Oldham’s two remaining railway stations. Middleton...
KNIFE-CARRYING yobs in Oldham will be shown graphic images of stab wounds in an effort to discourage them from reoffending, it has been revealed. Doctors and nurses will show...
BOSSES at Britain’s third biggest bus company have been told to concentrate on keeping trams on line. Stagecoach won the contract to operate the publicly-owned Metrolink...
Boats have been left high and dry as the water recedes at Redbrook Reservoir IT seems an unlikely picture, given the current wet weather, but boats have been left high and dry...
CAMPAIGNERS opposed to Oldham Athletic’s new stadium plans will get a face-to-face meeting with club bosses on Monday. Failsworth Residents’ Action Group, led by...
PUPILS at the Hulme Grammar School for Girls filled the sky with balloons to mark the end of a busy week against bullying. Anti-Bullying Week at the Chamber Road school has...
Oldham Council chief executive Charlie Parker will get a grilling from a successful community group when he visits Medlock Vale next month. Mr Parker has been invited by The...
LOCAL restaurant Indish has further enhanced its growing reputation for top-quality cuisine by making the short-list in the Newcomer of the Year category at the British Curry...
PEOPLE most at risk of developing serious complications from seasonal flu have been urged to get a free jab. Oldham’s annual seasonal flu immunisation campaign launched...
Record low in bonfire incidents Oldham youngsters can give themselves a pat on the back for helping cut Hallowe’en and Bonfire night incidents to a record low....
ROOM for a little one — a family day out turned into a rather haunting experience for Nigel Hester and his relatives. The father-of-two and his partner Julie Swindlehurst...
THEIR high-visibility jackets leave passers-by in no doubt as to what they’re there for. But members of the public still believe Community Payback is a soft option...
‘A fantastic job in a wonderful school’ FAILSWORTH School is approaching the end of an era, as the man who steered it to record exam results and its transformation...
Who ate all the pies . . ? Staff at Oldham Community Leisure were certainly getting stuck in after being named Holland’s Heroes by the famous Lancashire pie makers....
A COUNCILLOR has dug around to discover the reason for the continuing presence of roadworks at a busy Shaw junction. Residents had been mystified as to why the hole in the...
The Life Story initiative pioneered in Oldham to help carers of people with dementia, has became a national project. Life Story was created by Shaw resident Ken Holt, whose...
