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WATERHEAD coach Mick Slicker is hoping to finish the season with a flourish. A campaign that has seen a huge turnover in players comes to an end with the team’s final...
Date Published 24/04/2009
THE number of victims of crime has plummeted over the past year but there is still a lot more to do. New figures from Greater Manchester Police show a drop in the number of...
FULL-OF-LIFE Alice Briscoe, who celebrates her 102nd birthday on Monday, received a surprise visit in hospital from Oldham Mayor, Councillor Shoab Akhtar. The sprightly...
BAMFORD Fieldhouse, chasing a hat-trick of Armstrongs Office Furniture Saddleworth and District Cricket League titles, start their season at home to Shaw on Sunday. JP Lee...
Oldham is to get one of the first of Tesco’s new bank branches next month when the multi-million superstore on Huddersfield Road reopens after rebuilding. Tesco, which...
OLDHAMERS young and old came together to mark St George’s Day with a celebration of the country’s heritage. At the Spring Vale Inn, Chadderton, landlord John Byron...
HE is an Olympic and World Championship medallist and already has a bulging trophy cabinet, but now Oldham racing cyclist Chris Newton can call himself the Manchester and District...
THERE is no stopping local boxer Ronnie Heffron, who has won through to the national quarter-finals of the ABA championships. The 18-year-old from Horsedge Street claimed the...
OLDHAM Cancer Support Centre was officially opened yesterday by the Mayor, Councillor Shoab Akhtar. Based at Failsworth Primary Care Resource Centre, the service first opened...
TONGE moved up the Manchester Premier League table with a 10.5-5 (175-162) victory at Richmond last night. Gary Ellis led the way with a 21-8 victory, while there were also...
Pleasure craft and permanent sites for narrowboats will bring more tourists and leisure activities to Greenfield. Frenches Wharf marina will open for business next month and...
IRISH pop star Ronan Keating has thrown his weight behind a hard-hitting cancer campaign that arrives in Oldham on Tuesday. The Boyzone singer, who lost his mum Marie to...
THIS big boy’s toy proved no match for Councillor Jackie Stanton. She showed her true colours when she donned a yellow bib and a white hard hat to get behind the...
WITH only five months before patients can walk through its doors, Oldham’s new Integrated Health Centre looks well on its way to completion. Towering above the Oldham...
COMPETITORS were kept busy in the first Medlock Bridge AC open event on the park lake. The series got off to a flying start, with fish caught from every part of the water....
THE economy of the north will benefit by up to £16bn from improvements to Greater Manchester’s rail network, experts said today. For the congested tracks around...
OLDHAM’S Link4Pink appeal has been a huge fund-raising success — hitting the original £60,000 target only nine months after its launch. The appeal kicked-off...
THE girls of Hulme Grammar School have enjoyed a tremendous netball season. The Year Seven team won the under-12s ounty title in the tournament held in Altrincham. At Year...
Council way off-track, says Frank COUNCIL chiefs have been ridiculed after creating a tiny cycle lane — with an electrical box stuck plumb in the middle. But Oldham...
CRICKET Greenfield CC 1sts: J Ainley, C Gill, P Gill, D Gill, A Hayes, C Moore, M Moore, M Lees, L Richards, C Smith, A Peters. Reserves: from 2nds. Meet club 12.45pm. 2nds: P...
TWO men convicted of causing a crash that left one woman permanently disabled and two others seriously injured will now be sentenced at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown...
Sharon swops hotel work for action with TA SHARON McCormack swopped making beds and cleaning bathrooms for protecting soldiers in Southern Iraq. The 32-year-old Mossley...
Hundreds of visitors from Saddleworth and Oldham will go cuckoo this weekend. As part of Cuckoo Festival in Marsden tomorrow, Standedge Tunnel and Visitor Centre is hosting a...
Here are Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s cards: SANDOWN 1.00 Nisaal 3.45 Paco Boy 4.15 Pipedreamer (nap) 4.50...
KEEN litter-pickers spent two hours sprucing up Grotton as part of an annual spring clean. Six residents filled a trailer with black bin-liners full of bottles, cans and...
YOUNGSTERS got creative with all manner of weird and wacky materials for a school holiday activity session at the Radclyffe Outreach Centre. The children transformed wool,...
THE planned development of a £15m science centre at Oldham Sixth-Form College sees the town bucking the national trend by having more students than ever taking the subjects....
But kitchen trader vows to bounce back after mill inferno FURIOUS residents want Vance Miller’s controversial kitchens operation closed after blaming him for the mill inferno...
Date Published 23/04/2009
A 17-YEAR-OLD student described by her mother as an ‘angel’ died following acute heart failure. An Oldham inquest heard yesterday how Roshni Panchani, of Manley...
