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ALAN SQUIRES has completed a hat-trick by winning the Lancashire seniors championship for a third time. The 60-year-old from Moorside triumphed in dramatic style at Denton,...
Date Published 24/06/2009
JULIAN ROBINSON featured twice as a winner as home players dominated the prizes during Festival Week at Blackley. Winners of the four-man team Stableford were Alan and Peter...
And, no, we’re not just spinning a yarn! Oldham Works: boosting Oldham and its people FOUR years ago, Judith Akenhurst took a massive career change when she swopped...
OLDHAM’S Jane Antrobus and Bev Scholes won the regional final of the Scott Leggatt Foursomes at Great Lever and Farnworth. They had a score of 84-13-71 to progress to...
Three local dignitaries were on hand to officially open Saddleworth’s new pool and leisure centre. The Mayor of Oldham, Councillor Jim McArdle, the chairman of...
DAVID Whittingham’s win in the men’s Chronicle Cup at Brookdale came as a complete surprise. The 48-year-old, who was last year’s captain at Werneth, had no...
DENTON refuse to surrender ground in their bid to land the Oldham Golf League ‘A’ division title. Dukinfield hammered Oldham 8-0 but could not close the four-point...
A fireman who won a commendation after rescuing three children from a blazing house in Sholver is retiring after 31-years in the brigade. Popular Malcolm Butler (49), of...
GREATER Manchester Fire and Rescue Service has appointed a new head. Steve McGuirk will take over as county fire officer and chief executive in early autumn, following in the...
BATTLING residents who want to get an open space designated as a town green spoke at the first day of a public inquiry yesterday. Rallying locals from Chadderton, led by John...
Oldham Council has brightened the atmosphere of much-derided Yorkshire Street by installing trees and planters to bring some greenery to the town centre.
A MUSICAL extravaganza filled Queen Elizabeth Hall at this year’s Oldham Music Centre Showcase. Groups of musicians and singers joined choirs and orchestras on stage to...
Lads get to sample life in the Army PHYSICAL endurance and camaraderie were the order of the day for two local lads as they joined the Army’s northern warrior insight...
AFTER experiencing the joy of a treble-winning season, one talented Heyside Angels team have done it all over again. Under the coaching skills of Mark Campbell, under-11s...
The Chronicle supports the Christies at Oldham Appeal by Marina Berry Fancy a break from ironing or gardening? Sit down, enjoy a cuppa and let someone else do the chores...
Failsworth Army cadets saluted top brass when the Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester, Warren Smith, paid them a visit. He chatted to the cadets on one of their parade...
A new peace garden and peace pole have been unveiled at SS Aidan and Oswald School, Royton by Mayor of Oldham, Councillor Jim McArdle and Mayoress, Councillor Kay Knox....
LUCKY James Murphy will be hoping his good form lasts after winning a trip to Chester Races. The 64-year-old van driver from Royton scooped the prize in the Evening...
AFTER Father’s Day on Sunday, dads have been given a further boost with news that they are becoming domestic gods. New research shows that the value of work fathers do...
SUMMER might have arrived — but ice-skating will be all the rage on Saturday. A synthetic rink will be one of the attractions when Chadderton Park FC holds a third...
HEYSIDE ‘A’ are riding high in the under-15s section of the Saddleworth and District Cricket League. Victory by an 80-run margin over Bamford Fieldhouse, who were...
IN the days before DVDs, w used to have slide nights in — father would set up the projector, cursing, while mother taped a white sheet to the wall, filled jugs with orange...
Staff will rise to 40 within six months Cyclops, a Chadderton company employing 20 people, has been bought for an undisclosed sum by Haydock-based i3 Group. The new owners...
LUCAS Glover, as big as 280-1 on Betfair, proved to be a skinner for the bookies when he won the US Open at Bethpage. But the odds-layers reckon he has little chance of a...
FLUSHED faces at Housing Units of Hollinwood saw its famous top-hatted doormen deployed to the mens toilets after customers mistook the brand new loos for a showroom. The...
ABLE Hydraulics has taken an 8,000 sq ft unit at Oldham Central Trading Estate at Coulson Close off Derker Street. Henderson Global Investors has secured the new tenant, which...
Here are Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s cards: KEMPTON 3.10 Bow To No One 3.40 Set The Trend (nap) 4.10 Hillside...
THE spacious new Indish Restaurant in Jardine Way, off Broadway, Chadderton, is to host the next Greater Manchester Chamber members’ lunch in Oldham on Friday, July 10 from...
Willmott Dixon Group is the greenest construction company in the UK according to the second Sunday Times Green List. The company, which has a local office at the Bizspace...
ANY Oldham business people who would ike to have breakfast with former athletics star Lord Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London Olympic 2012 bid and a member of the International...
