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A BARDSLEY housing estate has undergone a radical revamp to bring the properties into the 21st century. The 14 homes on the Bardsley estate were built in the 1960s from...
Date Published 09/06/2009
A DRINK driver who fled from police has been given a community service punishment. Gavin Mather (40), of Roche Road, Delph, was given a 12-month community order with a...
A COUNCILLOR and historian is calling for a special group to be set up to care for Oldham’s war memorials. Councillor Jim McMahon, Labour leader and member of Failsworth...
The boss who will bring trams to Oldham town centre is getting in a little practice...on Manchester. Hired last year from Melbourne by Greater Manchester Passenger Transport...
BREAST cancer patients in Oldham have received a sporting boost. Oldham Roughyeds has adopted Link4Pink as one of its official charities for the next 12 months. The...
OLDHAM football teams are being invited to play dirty at a tournament with a muddy difference. The 2009 Swamp Soccer New World Championships is taking place in Argyll,...
GREATER Manchester Police is on the move to multi-million-pound, state-of-the-art headquarters — but not until 2011. The force is currently based at Chester House, in...
SADDLEWORTH folk went quackers when Delph School staged its 21st annual duck race. Delph stream was a sea of bright yellow as 3,000 ducks were released, with hundreds of...
DEMENTIA robs individuals of their mind and faculties. TV presenter Fiona Phillips’ frank openness about her decision to quit GMTV to care for her father, did much to...
Shaw and Crompton Parish Council meeting reports SHAW and Crompton’s long-awaited new health centre could be open in less than two years. Steven Palmer, from NHS Oldham,...
Beats ANOTHER week, another fantastic night lined up at Oldham’s fastest rising music venue. Rude take over the Castle in Union Street on one Saturday each month and...
Beats A TRIO of North-West bands will go head to head in the ultimate regional showdown. Manchester boys Carnation will battle it out against Leeds offering Japanese...
Beats AUSTRALIAN rockers The Drones are hitting our shores hot on the heels of a sell out tour of their homeland. The quartet have just released critically acclaimed new...
Beats Where? Platt Fields Park, Fallowfield When? Friday and Saturday Why? Back in 2007, a group of students decided to stage a festival to celebrate their graduation...
Beats TONIGHT: MC Rut — Night and Day; Junior Boys — Club Academy; King Creosote — Ruby Lounge; Led Bib — Mint Lounge; Oh My God — Roadhouse TOMORROW: Unicorn Kid —...
Well, we’re on the final stretch of the wedding journey. We’re very nearly docking in the wedding quay. We’re nearing the pay machine at the end of the...
ATHLETIC will again use the loan system to spearhead their drive for promotion from Coca-Cola League One. New manager Dave Penney has been in contact with a number of Barclays...
OLDHAM’S players take on a new challenge tonight, as the task of filling a three-week gap without a fixture begins in earnest. Tony Benson’s squad will convene at...
Boxing LOCAL boxer Mark Heffron was the victim of a miscarriage of justice when he was beaten in the final of the junior ABA Championship. The 17-year-old from Horsedge...
Cricket round up LAKE Garage CLL chairman Neville Fletcher has described it as being possibly the pivotal period in the history of the league as a steering committee looks at...
Boxing DOUBLE ABA boxing champion Thomas Stubbs sets out on Monday to conquer Europe. The 19-year-old from Chadderton fights for England in the European Championships which...
Table Tennis OLDHAM Table Tennis Club has quit the Oldham and District Table Tennis League after a row in which their young players were accused of being “too...
Gymnastics Trampolinist Matt Shaw is celebrating after retaining his British Colleges title. A student at Oldham Sixth Form College, Matt took the gold medal for the...
Ice hockey Manchester Phoenix have agreed terms with Finnish winger Jaakko Hagelberg. The versatile 26-year-old is the first of the club’s allotted four import signings for...
Speedway Kris Kasprzak (10) top scored for Belle Vue as they beat Lakeside 49-44 last night. Charlie Gjedde (9) and Morton Risager (9) provided strong support to help the...
AS GLEN Johnson dawdled on the ball during England’s sleepy start at the weekend, headline writers the world over were primed for action. ‘An Almaty mess’,...
Here are Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s cards: KEMPTON 6.20 Desert Kiss 6.50 Noble Greek 7.20 Lochan Mor 7.50 Lighthearted...
Griffin picks up 5,435 Oldham votes ‘Sad day for politics’ — rivals The British National Party has won its first two seats in the European Parliament....
Date Published 08/06/2009
THE FAILSWORTH brother of former England cricket captain Mike Atherton, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. Chris Atherton (38) is alleged to...
POLICE have launched an investigation after a brutal knife attack on a bus passenger. The terrifying incident happened on the lower deck of the 184 service from Piccadilly as...
