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MANCHESTER Phoenix will take on Sheffield Scimitars in a friendly in the build up to the forthcoming EPL season. Held on the weekend of September 12 and 13, the two-legged...
Date Published 07/08/2009
Beleaguered shopkeepers say major gas works are damaging lucrative summertime business. At the end of the first week of the gas main renewal, Uppermill shopkeepers say takings...
RED-HOT Bill Brierley has enjoyed back-to-back wins in the Medlock Bridge AC open match on Alexandra Park Lake. The Team HB ace started the ball rolling with a 23lb 11oz catch...
Your Chronicle — backing the £100,000 Christie Oldham appeal GENEROUS fund-raisers at the King Arms pub in Shaw enjoyed a family fun day to help to boost the...
Sound start for sonic cleaning business OLDHAM WORKS: The Chron’s campaign to boost Oldham, its business, and its people! FOUR years after starting a new life in the...
VANDALS have destroyed information boards designed to help visitors make the most of the Rochdale Canal. The council is appealing for help to catch the people responsible for...
Vandals are suspected to have stolen the entrance barriers to the Sainsbury’s car park in Union Street, Oldham, for a second time. The barriers went missing overnight...
MP David Heyes swopped the House of Commons for a horseboat when he steered a course along the Rochdale Canal yesterday. He took the tiller on the horsedrawn boat Maria to...
PUPILS from two schools had a thrilling time at a creative arts summer school. The 22 children from Counthill and Breeze Hill spent two days working on performance,...
THERE’S never a dull moment for Jack-of-all-trades Darren Clark. And now the Lees funeral director has taken on the role of St John Ambulance president in Greater...
FIXTURES RUGBY LEAGUE Tonight — Engage Super League: Salford v Catalans (8pm). Saturday — Carnegie Challenge Cup, semi-final: Warrington v Wigan (2.30pm,...
AS the countdown towards Ramadan begins, Oldhamers are invited to find out more about the holiest month in the Muslim calendar. Events will be held over the next two weeks to...
ROAD safety was the focus of an alfresco cycling session at Royton Park. Hundreds of youngsters were given free puncture kits along with tips on how to stay safe on the...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s cards:
IN our latest Friday science lecture Dr Pauline Balac, a senior lecturer in biology at Huddersfield University looks at the importance in our diet — and out of it — of...
OLDHAMERS from across the borough came together for a special walk to mark Hiroshima Day yesterday. The annual walk, the 26th organised by the Saddleworth Peace Movement, saw...
OLDHAM Play Action Group has been encouraging children to use the outdoors more following a visit to Daisy Nook, Tandle Hill Park and Beckets Meadow, Clarksfield. Steph Gill,...
ATHLETIC have today completed the signings of three players to bolster their squad for the new Coca-COla League One campaign which kicks off on Saturday. Manager Dave Penney has...
Date Published 06/08/2009
ATHLETIC’S injured players are winning their battles for fitness in time for Saturday’s opening Coca-Cola League One fixture against Stockport County. And Neal...
OLDHAM are sticking with the same side that blitzed their local rivals for tonight’s pink-themed clash with London Skolars at Boundary Park (7.30pm kick off). Matty...
Manchester United 2, Valencia 0 MANCHESTER United new-boy Antonio Valencia is taking over the mantle from Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo was hardly missed as Valencia, a...
WERNETH’S latest professional, Humayun Farhat, has returned home to Pakistan following news that his father has suffered a heart attack. Skipper Andy Walker said:...
ROYTON will have to play the rest of the Lake Garage CLL season without an overseas amateur. Ryan Carters, their Australian wicketkeeper and batsman, has returned home to take...
And you made it happen TWO hi-tech cancer-fighting radiotherapy machines, each costing £1.3 million, have arrived at the Royal Oldham Hospital — thanks to generous...
MOORSIDE are hoping to finish the Armstrongs Office Furniture Saddleworth and District Cricket League season with a flourish. The Turf Pit Lane outfit were tipped as a...
POLICE are continuing to appeal for witnesses after a second person was arrested and bailed over the vicious assault of an 18-year-old woman. The victim suffered nasty facial...
A 26-YEAR-OLD man was left with a perforated eardrum and numerous fractures when he was brutally assaulted in Mossley. The attack happened between midnight and 3am on Monday...
A LOAN shark who terrorised Failsworth victims has been jailed — the first case in Oldham brought to justice through a new illegal money lending team. John Kiely (36)...
SUCCESSFUL Shaw skipper Mark Ingham praised his side’s spirit after they won a dramatic Moore Cup final. The Holebottom Clough outfit scraped home by three runs after...
HUNDREDS of Oldhamers are among a whopping 214,000 television licence evaders who have been caught watching TV illegally so far this year. Official figures have revealed 710...
