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A FORMER Great Britain body building champion paid a visit to Failsworth School to educate young people about the importance of a healthy diet. Kerry Kayes, who also won the...
Date Published 03/07/2009
West Oldham Districtm partnership report LOCAL representatives and residents were given an outline of what to expect from the new West Oldham District Partnership meetings and...
Admirers of the decorative canal art, Roses and Castles, a familiar sight on the UK’s canal network, have the chance to learn the craft from an expert tomorrow. Roses...
BUDDING firefighters from the 12th Shaw Beavers experienced a day in the life of a fire crew during a tour round Lees Fire Station. The boys, aged between six and eight, met...
In the latest in a series of Friday science features we take a look under the microscope with microbiology expert Dr Paul Humphreys, senior lecturer in microbiology at...
BBC TV presenter Nigel Jay is set to see his new novel filling up book shelves in Oldham next week. WH Smith in the Spindles Shopping Centre is the first in the UK-wide chain...
Kraftwerk at the Manchester Velodrome Manchester International Festival could hardly have pulled off a more unusual coup than to put Kraftwerk and the city's Velodrome together...
ATHLETIC’S search for a new keeper is over following the capture of Dean Brill from Luton Town. Manager Dave Penney believes his side will be in safe hands as the...
Date Published 02/07/2009
Prime Minister learns how we’re bucking the trend to make sure Oldham Works PRIME Minister Gordon Brown was told about all that is good in Oldham yesterday — as...
OLDHAM’S current rivals for second spot in Championship One, York City Knights, have been dealt a major blow with the suspension of the team’s coaching duo and four...
MARK HUGHES accepts Manchester City will be judged by the quality of their strikeforce – which is why he is so keen to bring Samuel Eto’o to Eastlands. While...
Saddleworth Moor has defied the world’s leading scientists and search experts trying to unlock the 45-year mystery of Keith Bennett’s grave. But Ian Brady still...
OLDHAMERS sizzled yesterday as temperatures reached a three-year high. The mercury reached a sweltering 27.8C (82F) at 2.51pm, the hottest since July, 2006. But there is...
Bamford seek new challenge ANDY BARTON, the Bamford Fieldhouse captain, has accused the Armstrongs Office Furniture Saddleworth and District Cricket League of having an...
OLDHAM PLANNING COMMITTEE EMOTIONS ran high as plans to build an academy at the former Orb Mill site in Waterhead were given the go-ahead last night. There were angry...
Local sport: Lake Garage CLL PLACES in the semi-finals of the John Willie Lees Twenty20 competition are up for grabs tomorrow (6.15pm). Fast-moving Friday-night cricket is...
Bad feeling over longer rounds and later starts could spark prolonged industrial action by Oldham’s disgruntled postmen and women this summer, their union is warning....
A PIONEERING consultant surgeon at The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is thought to be the first in the North-West to have successfully carried out a new gallstone operation....
It’s double top for Oldham as two civic officials take top jobs at the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities. Council leader Howard Sykes has been appointed...
A QUINTET of Saddleworth Rangers players are hoping for more international experience this month. Ethan Langhorn, David Orwell and Matthew Fogerty are all battling for...
Meacher’s call over jobs, incomes, homes OLDHAM MP Michael Meacher is calling on Labour to give voters a choice at the next election by saying what they really stand for....
OLDHAM cycling ace Chris Newton was celebrating after team-mate Kristian House was crowned National Road Race Champion following a superb performance in Wales. Newton, the...
Tributes to Are You Being Served? Veteran TV star Comedy actress Mollie Sugden, whose first job was with Oldham Coliseum Repertory Theatre, has died in hospital after a...
POLICE are warning householders not to let the heatwave turn into a crimewave after 150 Greater Manchester homes were burgled in the past week as a direct result of people leaving...
Motorists who created tidal waves by driving four-wheel drive vehicles through flash floods, have been criticised by a leading councillor. Brian Lord lashed out after...
History repeats itself this weekend when Saddleworth author Jan Needle promotes his book “Wagstaffe the Wind-up Boy” at Oldham’s Waterstones branch. The...
Council calls time on innovative timepiece One of Oldham’s less successful artworks — the pavement clock — has disappeared beneath a new garden, in time for...
SADDLEWORTH captain Peter Skuse is hoping his side can carry on their good run of form. The Well-i-Hole outfit sit joint third in division one at the half-way stage of the...
Comics Cannon and Ball are set to make a surprise return to Oldham on Wednesday, July 15, at a concert for Bobby Ball’s sons. Darren Harper — half of the Harper...
THREE teams are locked together at the top of the Ashton and Oldham Cricket Alliance. Friends, Greengate and Newtonhurst are vying for the outright lead as the season approaches...
