You are Here: Home » News » News Archives
Welcome to the News Archives.
You can browse all our archived articles using the list below or use the following search form.
Looking for newer articles? Try the Recent News Search.
63158 Article(s) Found
Call for a wider range of services Payments for fines, travel tickets, school meals, and parking badges are some of the ideas councillors want to pursue to help keep local...
Date Published 16/11/2009
A parish councillor who fought a four-year battle to create a safety zone outside a village school claims the result has been “watered down.” Parish councillor Ken...
An Oldham swimming coach is taking the plunge into a new career training the Olympic medallists of the future in Kenya. John Wroe is aiming high with his new job as head coach...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections for tomorrow’s meetings:
The school run is more than a quarter of a million miles shorter in Greater Manchester this year thanks to 41 yellow school buses. And anti-social behaviour incidents are down...
Pledge to repair broken ‘slow down’ alerts A COUNCILLOR has stepped in to solve the problem of faulty warning lights on a road dubbed The Cannonball Run....
A MEMORIAL forest charity based in Oldham is spreading its roots to help out in other areas. Life for a Life will launch a new Memorial Woodland at Wythenshawe Park on...
LOCKS on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, which runs through Saddleworth, will undergo their annual winter overhaul in the next few weeks. British Waterways will begin a...
PLANS have been submitted to expand a mosque in a terraced house in Shaw. The Mohammedia Masjid and Islamic Centre in Refuge Street wants to convert its first floor into a...
EXHIBITION IN MEMORY OF HILARY A Saddleworth artist has launched a touching exhibition in memory of his dead wife. Bob Littleford attributes his acclaimed success to the...
Limeside needs your vote A BID to boost Limeside Park with lottery funding needs Oldhamers support. Contour Housing Group has made it to the next stage in its bid for The...
WORK is expected to begin on building a £4.5 million neighbourhood centre in Fitton Hill early next year. Oldham Council has given the green light to plans for the...
BREEZE Hill School has held its last presentation evening before it becomes an academy. Former pupil, Det Sgt Alison Troisi, from the child protection unit at Greater Manchester...
AS Oldham celebrates winning Best Town Centre in the North-West in Bloom competition, gardeners across the borough were rewarded for their own green-fingered efforts. First...
CHADDERTON Band is hitting all the right notes in the style stakes thanks to a £500 windfall. Members are looking red hot after Councillors Jack Hulme and Len Quinn...
The art of being sophisticated Sophistication isn’t something for which the British are well known. It might be to do with our reputation for football hooliganism and...
DAVE PENNEY wants his goal-shy team to take the pressure off the back line. Athletic take on Gillingham at the Priestfield Stadium tomorrow boasting the second-best defensive...
Date Published 13/11/2009
CHRIS HAMILTON has revealed that three anonymous backers are behind the recent rescue of Oldham Roughyeds. The identity of the trio, all supporters of Oldham RL club, is being...
MANAGER Chris Willcock wants his Mossley side to prove more than a point in tomorrow’s UniBond League division one north game at basement boys Rossendale. The Lilywhites...
HEWORTH have yet register a victory in National Conference League division one, while Saddleworth Rangers are top of the pile. It sounds like a mis-match. But Rangers coach...
OLDHAM Rugby Union face a tough home game against Workington tomorrow (2.15 kick off) in North Lancs/Cumbria division. The Cumbrians have won six of their nine games but...
TWO local cricket leagues are on a semi-final collision course in next year’s Reader Lancashire Inter-League competition. The Central Lancashire will lock horns with the...
ROYTON Town wasted a glut of chances as they slipped to their sixth defeat of the season in the Bridgewater Office Supplies Manchester League premier division. The Glebe...
DIGGLE produced a performance devoid of any real quality or style as they suffered their first defeat of the season in division one of the Huddersfield and District League....
SPIRITED Springhead Libs caused an upset to reach round three of the D&J Builders (North-West) Ltd OIdham Sunday League’s Challenge Cup. With only one win in...
HOLLINWOOD moved up to third place in the premier division of the Bridgewater Office Supplies Manchester League following a hard-fought victory over Hindsford at a rain-lashed...
CHADDERTONIANS produced a late, late comeback to reach the quarter-finals of the Lancashire FA Amateur Cup for the third time in four seasons. Two goals adrift by the mid-way...
GOLDEN Buck piled up the goals in the only fixture to go ahead in the Ashton Sunday League. Parkinson weighed in with a double hat-trick and Siddall got four as they recorded...
IT was good to see Austerlands Cricket Club official Peter Sunderland in the Oldham Evening Chronicle last week, writes JOHN GILDER. Peter, along with Paul Scholes and Kevin...
JIM WILD took first place in the Cranberry AC match fished on a wind and rain-lashed Fleets Dam. A decent carp and plenty of bits were taken on the tip and pellet before a...
