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SHAW boxing professional Darren Stubbs is set for a spell on the sidelines after damaging a hand in the build-up to Sunday’s fight for the vacant International Masters...
Date Published 10/11/2009
AN Oldham Euro-MP has called for prostitution to be legalised and regulated. Lib Dem Chris Davies wants the House of Lords to throw out legislation that he says would put more...
OLDHAM Vets A team scored a tremendous victory in the Premier division of the Lancs and Cheshire League when they beat Mid-Cheshire 7–3. Pete Morris rolled back the...
THOUSANDS of people lined the streets in Oldham town centre to see Father Christmas move into his new grotto. Santa and his real reindeers paraded through the centre along...
THE Oldham business community turned out in force for the annual chamber of commerce dinner. Comic Lea Roberts entertained around 70 guests at the event at Clough Manor,...
MICK KENWAY made a successful return to the oche as Oldham’s darts team continued their quest for Lancashire GMC Super Eights glory. Kenway, playing his first match...
Oldham Council’s fostering service held a fun day for the sons and daughters of foster carers to thank them for welcoming other children into their home. The event was...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections for tomorrow’s meetings are:
A FORMER nurse has chosen to support charities close to her heart during her year as President of Oldham Inner Wheel Club. Jemmie Srivastava, wife of the late Oldham GP Bipin...
ORIGINAL Calendar Girl Tricia Stewart kept her clothes on to jolt older Oldhamers into action. She appeared at Talking Sense, a council event aimed at informing over 50s about...
SADDLEWORTH School is in line for a double for its work to bring the wider world into the classroom. The specialist language college has already been presented with an...
Local drama group talks to Community Reporters
Date Published 09/11/2009
THEY say the best things come in small packages — but bigger is definitely better for first-time parents Donna and Nick Saunders. For Jack Allen Saunders weighed in at a...
A MASKED gang smashed up a Clarksfield pub shortly after a packed fireworks display. Several children were still in the Friendship Inn, Lees Road, when a table was thrown at a...
OLDHAM fell silent for two minutes at 11am yesterday as the borough paid its respects to the fallen soldiers of war. Five soldiers killed by a rogue Afghan police officer last...
AN accident blackspot which has claimed nine deaths in 11 years is in line for improved safety features. Highways officers completed a detailed investigation in Lees Road,...
Worried residents fear the return of moorland crashes on one of Saddleworth’s most notorious roads. Two people had a miraculous escape after their car careered off the...
Old soldiers, singers, dancers, and the people of Oldham remembered the borough’s war dead at the Festival of Remembrance on Friday. Held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall,...
THOUSANDS of Morrissey fans were left disappointed when the singer cancelled a show just two songs in after a fan threw a plastic tumbler of beer at him. I was one of a...
STEVEN MOORE scored his second goal in the space of seven days as Mossley picked up a point in a 1-1 draw at home to Wakefield FC in the UniBond League north division. And it...
A FORMER Oldham magistrate who received the MBE from the Queen has died aged 78. James Stansfield, of Kenilworth Close, Lees, received the MBE in 1988 for his work as a senior...
TWELVE pupils every week are suspended from schools across Oldham for assaulting a teacher or another student. In 2007/8 a total of 460 pupils were given a fixed term...
OLDHAM town centre is cleaning up its act, thanks to new rules on handing out promotional flyers. Strict guidelines which control when and where flyers can be handed out have...
Top-level talks are under way to introduce a novel scheme to boost tourism in Saddleworth. An experiment to provide a special tourist bus to ferry visitors between Uppermill,...
PARENTS in Oldham have less chance of winning an appeal to get their children into the school of their choice than anywhere else in the North-West. Only 7.5 per cent of...
Alleygates will be installed near the Lord Lane post office in Failsworth after new funds were found. Gates have already gone up around council houses managed by First Choice...
GREAT-grandmother Susan Jones took a trip down memory lane to the factory where she worked on the mighty Lancaster bomber. And friends helped her to recreate the wartime...
WORLD-renowned climber Kevin Thaw visited his home town to inspire youngsters taking up the sport. The intrepid explorer, who now lives in California, handed out certificates...
TRADING standards failed to carry out a single test purchase during a £3 million investigation into a business man accused of fraud, a court heard. Vance Miller (44),...
OLDHAM Athletic Futsal Club has qualified as one of the newest teams in the FA Northern National League. In order to qualify, Latics had to battle it out against futsal teams...
