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ALMOST 2,500 people from Oldham have helped make a North-West anti-smoking campaign a national award winner. They were among more than 60,000 from the region — the...
Date Published 07/07/2009
LOCAL amateur golfer Matthew Nixon still has a chance of qualifying for next week’s Open Championship at Turnberry. The Ashton-under-Lyne member, who has Oldham links,...
A DISGRUNTLED Friezland couple are counting the cost of recent thunderstorms, after heavy rain forced torrents of underground water to burst up through their drive. Alan and...
Delph Band Club will go Dutch on Thursday when it hosts a visit from a top international championship band. The Arhus Brass Band, from Holland, have re-arranged their busy...
LOCAL boxer Shinny Bayaar has discovered that being granted a British passport opens previously closed doors in his sport. Within days of becoming a British citizen after...
LAKE Garage CLL clubs are feeling the heat for failing to provide drinks for players in junior cricket during the recent heatwave. Radcliffe’s Louise Farley made a...
WHEN Tony Shaw retired after a lifetime at work, he was left with what most people would consider as an enviable problem — what to do with his newly-found spare time....
Teachers from Pakistan are sampling school life in Oldham to learn more about the English education system. Their hosts are staff at Breeze Hill School which has been linked...
THE RSPCA’s mobile veterinary clinic will be at Tandle Hill Country Park, Royton, tomorrow. The clinic is aimed at people on benefits who cannot afford to take their...
GREATER Manchester bowlers completed their County Championship programme with a narrow victory over the Potteries. They won the home leg, at Hopwood Unionist, by 243-217 but...
THE streets will be awash with colour when Hollinwood Carnival returns on Sunday. Crowds are expected to turn out in their droves in celebration of Hollinwood past, present...
A disastrous second half to the meeting for Belle Vue, in which they lost six of the last eight heats, saw the Aces slip to a 50-40 home defeat 40-50 against high flying Swindon...
AS hobbies go, Oldham-born Phil Ibbotson’s is pretty unusual. Phil spends several weekends a year driving a Metro car around forests, fields, quarries and moorland...
OLDHAM boxers Jack Ellender and Robbie Connor punched their way to victory on their debuts at Leigh. The pair, members of the Derker-based Oldham Boxing and Personal...
OLDHAM Greenhill Community Sports Club, in conjunction with East Oldham Area Committee, organised a Community Cohesion six-a-side football league which ran from January until...
DAZZLING dancers from Beal Vale primary school in Shaw have scooped some silverware in a national cheerleading and street dance competition. The BV Warriors put their best...
While perusing La Playa in Spain this week, the fashion police in me came out. Looking for any fashion column ideas, I came across the worst beach outfit of all time....
IAN Poulter is an obsessive Twitterer. That isn’t a disguised description of the flashy golfer’s personality, though he is certainly capable of rubbing people up...
Beats CHART topping artists Lady Gaga and N-Dubz will stage a free concert for hard-working local teenagers. Thousands of youngsters will get the chance to see their idols...
Beats Where? Night and Day, Manchester When? Tomorrow Why? Folk rockers Chief — Evan Koga, Mike Moonves, Daniel Fujikawa, Michael Fujikawa — hail from Santa...
Here are Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s cards: KEMPTON 6.20 Global Village 6.50 Astarta 7.20 Maybe I Wont 7.50...
Beats IT’S party time on Saturday for one of Oldham’s longest-running house nights. Rude, at The Castle, Union Street, is marking its 15th birthday (part 1)...
Beats TONIGHT: The Saturdays — Apollo; Madonna — Arena; The Cat Empire — Academy 2; That Petrol Emotion — Academy 3 TOMORROW: Chief — Night and Day; Madonna — Arena; Lucy...
Beats CELEBRITY chefs, big name artists and good food . . . Rochdale’s Feel Good Festival promises to be an event to remember. The free event, which takes place in...
Fear new signs will encourage more drivers to speed on lanes A parish councillor has accused planners of a “common-sense bypass” by erecting new speed signs...
Date Published 06/07/2009
SHOCKING drinking habits of Oldham’s under-age boozers have been revealed. One in four sups more than 20 units a week, according to a North-West-wide survey of 14 to...
VANDALS gave a damning verdict on the new Sainsbury’s parking barriers — by snatching them away in the middle of the night. Weekend shoppers were surprised to...
A senior social worker — who could handle cases as potentially serious as Baby P and Victoria Climbie — is being appointed in Oldham. The peripatetic senior social...
A man who ignored no-swimming signs at Dovestone reservoir had to be rescued by fire crews when he got into difficulty. Fire-fighters scrambled the fire rescue boat from...
Study to improve GMP tactics GREATER Manchester Police is to become the first force in the UK to use special clinical studies to scrutinise their crime-fighting tactics to see...
