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Your Chronicle supports the Oldham Christies Appeal A MOSSLEY artist put brush to canvas to say a big thank you to the people who saved his life — and helped him become a...
Date Published 03/08/2009
Wartime Weekend is set for take-off AN emotional D-Day celebration, including a spine-tingling flight of one of the last two remaining Lancaster bombers, is to be staged next...
Hundreds join Yorkshire Day celebrations HUNDREDS of people, some wearing white roses, crowded Saddleworth villages to celebrate Yorkshire Day. The traditional day began...
Four Chadderton business brains turned to making profits for charity when they tackled a work experience stint at a leading Internet company. The A-level business studies...
TRIBUTES have been paid to a former Hollinwood clergyman who has died at the age of 85. Father Denys Goodman, who was vicar of St Margaret’s Church from 1957 until 1970,...
OLDHAM WORKS — a major Chronicle boost to Oldham’s people and economy IN these days of recession and economic woe, it is pleasing to visit a business that is...
ARM in arm with her loving husband Philip, Barbara Dewsnap enjoys the holiday of a lifetime with her family in Florida in June last year. Just weeks later, the bubbly and...
A former Coronation Street star has launched a new career . . . as a cheesemaker. Sean Wilson, who played Martin Platt in the soap, presented some of his cheeses at a special...
Oldhamer Peter Green moved like a Bat out of Hell to enjoy a new life on the sun-drenched Mediterranean island of Cyprus — as a Meat Loaf tribute act. The 52-year-old...
A LOCAL author’s work will be read aloud from the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square on Wednesday as part of sculptor Antony Gormley’s living monument. Author Jan...
A GAS repairman who used so-called “phoenix companies” to continue trading after his firm went bust, ran up tens of thousands of pounds debt. Nigel Anthony Baxter...
GETTING old can be a lonely business, but that shouldn’t be a problem for David Siddall — he’s got nine siblings to keep him company. As David celebrated his...
Two gateways into Shaw will be improved with the money paid by Asda for the development of the Dawn Mill site. The junctions of Milnrow Road and Crompton Way, and Rochdale...
A FORMER Oldham Mayor’s consort, arrested for allegedly firing a shotgun as Norwegian tourists visited a crop circle in Wiltshire, has been rebailed. Ken Wilson (62),...
A SURVEY to find out how easy it is for disabled people to access dentists’ services has been circulated in Oldham. A working group from Oldham’s Local Involvement...
Tommyfield Market Hall’s leaking roof is being repaired at a cost of £18,000. There have been several complaints from the stall holders and public, due to damage...
AN intrepid group of volunteers from Dr Kershaw’s Hospice is embarking on its greatest challenge yet — a fund-raising trek on the Great Wall of China. The Royton...
From the Great Wall to the Grand Canyon — a holiday album to savour FROM Antigua to Vietnam with 51 countries in between — globetrotting Jim and Elaine Stott have...
THE free lap-top programme will be extended to children in care and at the Pupil Referral Unit — for pupils who cannot attend school — with an £86,000 grant...
YOUNG and old gathered at Oldham Edge for the Big Event on Saturday — a day packed with family fun organised by Groundwork’s v Challenge volunteers on behalf of the...
JON WORTHINGTON has added to Athletic’s injury woes in the week leading up to the start of their Coca-Cola League One campaign. The midfield man limped out of...
ACTIVE youngsters spent a week taking part in a host of sports as part of a Bat N’ Ball Summer School at Hulme Grammar School, Chamber Road. Over 100 boys and girls of...
OLDHAM have swooped to hand chances to two former Wigan starlets in centre Mike Priest and second row Luke Rhoden. The pair, aged 20 and 19 respectively, were put in touch...
SCHOOL may be out for summer but pupils were back at Hathershaw Technology College to take part in a summer project. A total of 30 youngsters age 11 to 13 signed up for the...
Roughyeds 48, Hornets RL 28 Vibrant Oldham find their form IT is as if somebody flicked a switch somewhere. From being a team liable to enter snooze mode at any moment...
When children dream of Olympic glory, it may be success in the walking event that they imagine. Forget the 100 metres sprint or the swimming or the curling, fast walking is...
Athletic 2, Blackpool 4 YOU don’t need to be a rocket scientist to realise where Athletic have been found wanting in their build-up to their new Coca-Cola League One...
MANCHESTER City manager Mark Hughes believes some of his Premier League peers may indulge in mind games because they never made it to the top as players. City are determined...
Halle Fireworks and Lights Spectacular, Tatton Park THERE is something quite magical about listening to the sounds of a world-class orchestra floating across beautiful parkland...
MONTON and Weaste successfully defended the John Willie Lees Wood Cup at Norden yesterday - and it was no surprise who won the man of the match award. Opening batsman Paul...
