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LATICS players past and present will be on hand to talk to fans at a special event to remember former player Ernie Cooksey. Cooksey, who won the hearts of Latics fans when he...
Date Published 30/04/2009
THREE sisters whose world has been torn apart by illness have vowed to help bring world-class cancer treatment to Oldham. The trio have thrown themselves into raising money...
THOUSANDS of brave Gurkhas are celebrating after the Government suffered an embarrassing defeat yesterday. Campaigners, led by actress Joanna Lumley, were rewarded with a...
Illegal off-roaders warned ILLEGAL off-road bikers are being warned that they risk having their bikes seized, or even crushed. Police in Oldham West have launched...
DOZENS of Royal Mail staff will swop mail bags for marching boots when they take to the streets for a charity mission. A 50-strong team of employees will walk from Manchester...
Council leaders were locked in emergency talks this morning as the global threat from swine flu was raised to level five. Plans have kicked in as the World Health Organisation...
HOLLINWOOD will be saying goodbye to a formidable community champion over the next few weeks. The Rev David Joynes has been an integral part of the district for over half a...
PUPILS from three primary schools were in fine voice as they took part in the national Sing Up campaign. The campaign aims to get primary school pupils singing to help break...
Oldhamers were urged to act fast at the first signs of a stroke when a roadshow visited the Spindles Town Square shopping centre. Greater Manchester Health Services staged the...
IS health and safety getting you down? Would you like to visit a city where all the boring rules we have to adhere to are broken on a daily basis? Then can I recommend...
OLDHAM Athletic will unveil their new manager tomorrow. The club announced this afternoon that the successor to temporary boss Joe Royle will be revealed at a press conference at...
Date Published 29/04/2009
ATHLETIC hope to appoint a new manager within the next seven to 10 days, with Jim Gannon emerging as the favourite to land the job. Managing director Simon Corney hinted the...
ROUGHYEDS hooking pair Gary Sykes and Stevie Gibbons have emerged as injury doubts ahead of the trip to the capital to face London Skolars this weekend. Former Leigh man Sykes...
REUBEN Hazell has been voted by Athletic fans as their player of the season. The 30-year-old defender confessed to being surprised to receive the honour at last night’s...
Arsene Wenger has warned Manchester United his Arsenal team are "a different animal" to the side that went out of Europe at the hands of Liverpool last season....
BILL Quinn has made an impassioned plea for the town’s rugby league supporters to get behind the Roughyeds. The club chairman is famously handy with his fists inside the...
DEWSBURY will not go the season unbeaten, predicts Roughyeds chairman Bill Quinn. The Co-operative Championship One front-runners have yet to be defeated in the league,...
THE THING that pleased me most about the way we played against Swinton was that the efforts we had put in at training paid off on game day. The main focus for us was the...
SUPER League will become more like its Australian cousin as the salary cap conditions start to bite, argues Oldham coach Tony Benson. A series of surprise results, none more...
Fans have their say on Joe Royle’s pass on the managership
Mossley manager Chris Willcock accepts his team will be underdogs in tonight’s final of the Manchester Premier Cup at Boundary Park which kicks off at 7.45 Opponents...
CHADDERTON Fold’s Martyn Hamer took plenty of positives for the forthcoming season after finishing in a share of third place in the Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Welsh Open Young PGA...
SIMON HIGGINS, Graham Dowd and Colin Hopkinson must contest an 18-hole play-off to determine the Long Handicap Trophy at Crompton and Royton after they all returned nett 70....
REIGNING ‘A’ Division champions Brookdale have been left stunned after the opening game of the new Oldham and District Golf League season. John Uren’s side...
FAILSWORTH’S Katie Jane Stanley will be one of over 400 players from 30 nations to tee off in the US Kids Golf European Championships in May. The 10-year-old, who is a...
Illegal immigrant stabbed grandmother in front of boy, then hanged himself AN ILLEGAL immigrant stabbed his estranged girl friend’s mother in front of her 10-year-old...
A CANNABIS farm was discovered by officers during a dawn raid in Woodhouses yesterday. Officers from the Oldham Operational Support Unit and the Failsworth Neighbourhood...
A Chadderton businessman has made a formal complaint to police after his children confronted aggressive thieves who stole a £10,000 generator — but no officers...
COMRADES A missed out on the Saw-Tech Shaw Snooker League title on a dramatic last day. Going in to the final fixtures, Comrades were on top. But they slipped to a 5-1 defeat...
OLDHAM Athletic and its fans have given the Royal Oldham Hospital’s Link4Pink Appeal a massive shot in the arm. Appeal organisers last night received a cheque for...
