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ATHLETIC are still playing a waiting game as their summer rebuilding programme remains in a state of limbo. Manager Dave Penney has deals for four players provisionally agreed...
Date Published 15/06/2009
TRAVELLERS returned to the former B&Q car park on Friday — two months after their last visit. Four white caravans, as well as pickup trucks, were parked at the...
MANCHESTER United duo Paul Scholes and Gary Neville are wanted by relegated Middlesbrough. Manager Gareth Southgate believes the wealth of experience possessed by the...
Oldham’s growing influence on Greater Manchester’s public transport has been dealt a blow after former council leader Richard Knowles was denied the job he has coveted...
OLDHAM Council is re-prioritising its waiting list for alleygates and has dismissed fears that money for the crime-busting scheme has dried up. Labour group leader Councillor...
OLDHAM’S lack of bowling options was cruelly exposed by a rampant Norden outfit at The Pollards on Saturday. But the home side hardly helped themselves by dropping a...
A UNION has called for political leaders to retain tax credits after revealing that 20,500 families in Oldham rely on them to bring up their children. The figure puts Oldham...
OLDHAM Town Centre was alive to the sound of music as Dobcross Youth Band lead the Mayoral Sunday procession in style. The sun was shining as Councillor Jim McArdle, along...
A DEDICATED and much-loved coach driver, described by his boss as the best in the world, has died. Grahame Collinge, from Middleton Road, Chadderton, died suddenly last...
AN Oldham lawyer is warning of a surge in medical-negligence claims as extra pressure is heaped on pharmacists by the Government. John Pollitt highlighted several cases he is...
ROYTON band “Not The Majority” is heading for the stage to raise cash for Dr Kershaw’s, The teenage four-piece rock band will put on end-of-term lunchtime...
HUNDREDS of people gathered in Saddleworth yesterday afternoon to welcome Councillor Alma McInnes as the new chairman of the Parish Council. The Lib-Dem councillor took centre...
SIMON Wright hit a superb unbeaten 106 as Crompton put down a marker for next weekend’s Wood Cup quarter-final against Clifton. In this dress rehearsal for the real...
OLDER Oldhamers keen to maintain their independence may be able to apply for sheltered housing through the council. Oldham Council has been busy replacing and refurbishing a...
WERNETH are on course for the quarter-finals of the CLL’s John Willies Lees Twenty20 competition following a convincing 32-run victory over Royton at the Coppice. John...
STAFF from First Bus in Mumps have turned to an Olympian to get them en route to racing success. The marketing department colleagues were disappointed with their times at a...
A PAIR of talented Diggle artists have been selected to display their work at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. The summer exhibition at the Academy, which is based in...
SPEARHEADED by a century from Imran Aslam, Glodwick are up to fifth place in the Armstrongs Office Furniture Saddleworth and District Cricket League. The Pakistani...
BOLLYWOOD comes to Oldham next month, when the White Hart Inn at Lydgate hosts a fund-raising bash with a touch of decadence. People can enjoy a six-course gourmet meal and...
CONFUSION reigned at the end of the Twenty20 Cup encounter between Glodwick and Droylsden. For the first time in the competition’s four-year history, there was a tie....
LUKE PERRY and Chris Barrow blew the Saddleworth and District Cricket League’s hopes away in the first round of the JW Lees Inter-League Trophy at Eagley CC yesterday....
THE Lake Garage CLL bowed out of the J W Lees Inter-League Competition when they lost by 94 runs to the North Lancashire and Cumbria League at Furness yesterday. Taking first...
REVELLERS young and old basked in glorious sunshine as they celebrated Chadderton Day. The annual event, which was opened by Town Crier Reg Lord, was held at Foxdenton Park....
DARREN Griffiths has won many major competitions during his bowling career but, surprisingly, the Oldham Evening Chronicle Handicap title has always eluded him. But perhaps...
KYLE Hogg and Aaron Lilley shared eight wickets as Delph overcame Barkisland in premiership one of the Drakes Huddersfield League. Lancashire all-rounder Hogg took four for 41...
TIME ran out for Oldham-born Molly Sharples when the 12-year-old athlete travelled all the way from Farnham, Surrey, to represent Oldham at the Greater Manchester Athletics...
Here are Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s cards: ROYAL ASCOT 2.30 Gladiatorus (nb) 3.05 Amour Propre 3.45...
THIS lucky family has won the Evening Chronicle’s fresh flower competition. Mark Salway (49), of Great Meadow, High Crompton, will get a stunning bouquet of fresh...
Youngsters from two Saddleworth schools have been praised for making a clean sweep of their village. Children from Greenfield and Friezland primary schools were taking part in...
RAY Whitehead, a long-standing president of Oldham West and Royton Conservative Association, marked his retirement from the post with a party for colleagues, friends and family at...
