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ROYTONIANS enhanced their promotion push with an emphatic win over Saddleworth thirds in division two of the Site Electrical North Manchester League. They command from the...
Date Published 06/08/2009
A NORTH-WEST campaign group has thrown its support behind Government moves to crack down on boozy drinks promotions. The group, Our Life, presented Oldham East and Saddleworth...
SADDLEWORTH Rangers have two familiar names back in the fold as preparations for the new National Conference League division one season continue. Half-back pair Adam Kirwan...
Customer’s legal threat to Trading Standards AN angry customer is threatening legal action against Oldham Trading Standards over a complaint about controversial...
NEIGHBOURS in Derker said fly-tipping and vandalism is blighting their area. Jean Holroyd (69), from London Road, said a pile of garden rubbish and fence panels was dumped in...
THERE is everything to play for in the Ashton and Oldham Alliance after Friends and Radclyffe posted maximum points wins. Just three points separate the top five sides in the...
OLDHAM Mayor Councillor Jim McArdle signed a pledge encouraging residents to kill their speed. Oldham Road Safety Officers set up a stall in Spindles Shopping Centre to give...
THE Central Lancashire League is mourning the death in his early 80s of Arnold Pope. Mr Pope, who hailed from Whitefield, first came to the attention of CLL spectators when he...
THE waiting is over and the search is now on for Oldham’s Top Tot. The Chronicle’s most popular competition is back once again on a mission to find the...
ROYTON Town under-18s are in need of a goalkeeper for the new Bury and Radcliffe Junior League season. For more details, contact Pete Wild on 07979 527046.
A ROW has broken out about the conduct of members of Saddleworth Parish Council. Resident Trevor Huston, of Wellmeadow Lane, Uppermill, has lodged a letter of complaint about...
ROYTON Cricket Club’s successful under-11s team defeated Prestwich to reach the semi-finals of the Lancashire Cricket Board’s pairs competition. After taking first...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s cards:
LATICS players took time out from their busy training schedule to meet fans in Oldham town centre. Fans queued up in Spindles Shopping Centre for the chance to meet the...
Neighbours plagued by serious flooding from near-by sports pitches in Hollinwood can finally see light at the end of the tunnel. Muddy water from the fields at Merton Avenue...
Oldham’s outdoor market will move on to the streets as the council aims to breathe new life into its outdoor venues. Janice Barker visited Middleton where the move to the...
SHOPPERS boarded a police burglary bus to get advice on crime prevention. Customers at Tesco’s Featherstall Road store and Netto in Huddersfield Road were invited to hop...
THEY thought it was all over . . .but it isn’t yet. Tameside Council is to tell residents of Longdendale that relief is at hand after a letter to every home from...
AN Uppermill centenarian, and former Oldham Evening Chronicle tea lady, has died. Alice Cheetham, formerly of Willow Bank, died last Saturday at Shaw Side Nursing Home. The...
Oldham Planning Committee THE planning department will use a new clause for the first time in a bid to stop the developers behind a housing complex in Waterhead running away...
A FEW weeks ago, I ended up in a place I never expected to visit. Well, not for around 30 years, anyway. I refer to the back room at the crematorium. I won’t go into the...
ATHLETIC continue to sweat over the fitness of Neal Eardley, Joe Jacobson and Jon Worthington. The trio were again absent from training yesterday as Athletic count down to...
Date Published 05/08/2009
CHRIS Hough will be absent from the Oldham bench for tomorrow’s high-profile Boundary Park clash with London Skolars. The experienced 27-year-old half-back picked up a...
MANCHESTER United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar is expected to be sidelined for eight weeks after undergoing surgery on a broken finger and bone in his left hand. The...
RENAISSANCE man Martin Roden has sensed a change of attitude at Oldham in recent weeks. The 29-year-old club conditioner, cousin of stand-off Neil, was suddenly brought out of...
OLDHAM reserves play out their final home game of the season tonight at Sedgley Park, with Keighley Cougars the visitors (7.30pm kick off). Coach John Hough is hopeful his...
THERE HAVE been problems at the club for four or five weeks now and it finally got to the point where we realised we just have got to get on with it — and haven't looked...
ANYONE who believes that London Skolars will be pushovers tomorrow night should think again. The team from the capital have only won one match all season and have conceded a...
Athletic manager DAVE PENNEY introduces our Latics pre-season special I’M far from fazed that this is being hailed the toughest Coca-Cola League One for many years. It...
IT IS not only on the pitch that Athletic have a new-look, but they also have a much-changed backroom team. Manager Dave Penney has been joined by No 2 Martin Gray and...
