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RETAILERS are celebrating a massive drop in shoplifting after known thieves were banned from town centre stores. Firms who signed up to the Oldham Against Business Crime...
Date Published 02/07/2009
RESIDENTS in Fitton Hill are invited to have their say on a new £6.5 million health centre in the heart of the area. A GP and dental practice has recently opened on...
JUST when you thought it was safe to throw away your boots, the call has gone out to players over the age of 35 to participate in competitive football. Entries are being...
OLDHAM PLANNING COMMITTEE reports WIND turbines whipped up tension last night as councillors went into battle over an issue which has no precedent in the planning constitution....
FAILSWORTH Macedonia seconds are off the mark in division two of the Site Electrical North Manchester League. After nine games without a win, they defeated fellow strugglers...
A TRIO of teachers from North Chadderton School proved worthy winners of a gruelling challenge. PE teachers Sarah Semple and Jayne Roberts teamed up with geography teacher...
A PARTY of six from the Oldham Players’ Association travelled to Glossop to present Fred Hall with a lifetime membership certificate. The 62-year-old former Oldham prop...
Oldham Euro-MP Chris Davies has praised Brussels bureaucrats for a deal that will benefit mobile phone users everywhere. Under pressure from the European Commission the 10...
Here are Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s cards: BEVERLEY 6.20 Graceful Descent 6.50 Just Sam 7.25 Bould Mover...
Generous Asda customers in Shaw and Chadderton have helped towards raising over £1,000 for a local girls’ football team. The Heyside Angels under-9s raised...
THE family of a Shaw woman are appealing for her long- lost children to contact them. Elsie Walker was born Elsie Stephenson but her surname changed to Garside when she was...
DOBCROSS Youth Band raised the roof at a concert — and raised £1,000 for the Christie Hospital. The young musicians collected the cash through the concert, cake...
IT’S a fact of life that the unscrupulous target trusting elderly and vulnerable people. Fundraising stalwart Vera Smith was one of the latest victims of a con merchant. The...
IF you were a British company, the last of your kind, facing the double-headed monster of overseas competition and a global economic downturn, what would you do to keep your...
ATHLETIC have completed the signing of goalkeeper Dean Brill on a two-year contract. The 23-year-old shot-stopper was released by Luton Town at the end of May after making 81...
Date Published 01/07/2009
Family, friends and villagers are today mourning the tragic loss of a talented young rugby player who died after plunging 70ft down a cliff. Andrew Curwell (18), who lived...
An ugly row is brewing over Oldham Council’s decision to spend £200,000 on sprucing up the town centre as part of Oldham’s North-West in Bloom entry. After...
POLICE chiefs have given up the search for the last untraced victim of Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Greater Manchester Police have now classed the hunt for...
A GLODWICK takeaway was closed and five men arrested by police yesterday as part of an intelligence-led drug operation. Officers working alongside Environmental Health and...
GOVERNMENT officials have moved swiftly to dismiss reports that something was amiss when an Oldham company lost a £400 million contract to produced new, hi-tech passports....
RISING damp in civic centre meeting rooms will be tackled during three months of construction and refurbishment work costing £500,000. The walls and floors of the...
A tune by a chart-topping recording artist has rung all the wrong bells with a frustrated Grotton couple. Gerry Matley and his wife, Catriona Howard-Smith, have been deluged...
ANTI-ACADEMY opponents attending tonight’s planning committee fear proposals for a new school on land at the former Orb Mill site is a done deal. Residents are set to...
AN MP has hit out at Tory leader David Cameron’s claim that keeping the public in the dark over any spending cuts could lead to rioting on the streets. Immigration...
COMMUTERS in Oldham are more unhappy with their trains than anywhere else in the country, new figures reveal. The National Passenger Survey puts local operator Northern Rail...
A MOTORIST is warning drivers after youths on a bypass bridge pelted his car with stones in what he believes was a targeted attack. Christopher Tinker (32), of Rydal Avenue,...
OLDHAM Council is planning to take action to reduce the £1.64 million a year compensation payments it makes to motorists and pedestrians resulting from the poor state of...
WORKERS at Manchester Airport will not be forced to trial the controversial identity card scheme after the Government dropped plans to make the cards compulsory....
A PARISH councillor has warned the health of up to 4,000 Saddleworth villagers could be affected by fuel poverty. And Royce Franklin, chairman of the parish council’s...
