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ALMOST a fifth of NHS Oldham staff have experienced harassment, bullying or abuse at work over the past 12 months. Hundreds of employees took part in a national survey to rate...
Date Published 27/03/2009
CHILDREN at Blackshaw Lane Primary School got a taste of Spanish life when they spent the afternoon with overseas students. The youngsters got the chance to quiz their...
STUDENT police officers got a taste of life on the streets when they joined Failsworth and Hollinwood Neighbourhood Policing Team for the evening. Twenty officers, accompanied...
NO sign of the recession at Sotheby’s in London this week where two paintings by Lees-born grandmother, Helen Bradley, sold for a total of £85,250, which was...
BUDDING journalists from Oldham’s secondary schools made the news yesterday when they took part in a multimedia news day with the BBC. BBC News School Report gives 11-14...
THREE youths charged with conspiracy to rob were due to appear before Oldham Youth Court today. The boys, two aged 15 and one aged 14, were charged following a robbery at...
TWO events in Shaw next Saturday will attract and reward shoppers. Anyone carrying their “think local . . . shop Shaw” bags between 10am and 4pm will be eligible...
TEACHERS are planning to boycott Standard Attainment Tests (SATs) in schools in an attempt to force the Government to abolish them. Joint action is proposed by the National...
Budding guitar stars from Saddleworth and Lees struck a winning chord with the judges at the Rochdale Music Festival. The guitar section of the two-week festival is one of the...
ATHLETIC have defended their decision to allow top scorer Lee Hughes to join Coca-Cola Championship club Blackpool on loan for the remainder of the season. The Seasiders made...
ROUGHYEDS coach Tony Benson is backing his players to get back on the winning trail against Workington Town this weekend. Only three changes have been made to the 18-man squad...
ATHLETIC find themselves in the last-chance saloon as they prepare for tomorrow’s Coca-Cola League One game at Leyton Orient. Manager Joe Royle has described it as a...
OLDHAM'S players are determined to put the disappointments of the past couple of weeks behind them when Workington come to town on Sunday (3pm kick-off). That's according to...
SEVENTH place in the table, four points off a promotion spot . . . that is the scenario which could face Saddleworth Rangers should they win away at West Bowling tomorrow...
OLDHAM RUFC are expecting a tough forward battle in tomorrow’s North Lancs/Cumbria division clash at Wigton. That was the case in the first week of the season when the...
FATHER and son Peter Humphries (Gilders) and Lee Humphries (GTI matchman) took Brookside Fisheries by storm, filling first and third places. Peter has a good record at this...
THE turf Flat season gets under way at Doncaster tomorrow and punters who have piled into Expresso Star for the £125,000 William Hill Lincoln Handicap will be keeping their...
Lingfield 2.15 Kangaroo Court 2.50 Enfant De Lune 3.25 More The Merrier 4.00 Lodge Lane 4.35 My Way De Solzen 5.10 Theft 5.45 Hudibras Uttoxeter...
A PRIMARY school pupil who amazingly chalked up a science GCSE at the tender age of 10 is now aiming for another, in maths. Maths whizz Jaime Van Hunskerken — nicknamed...
Date Published 26/03/2009
ATHLETIC have only hours to complete a deadline day transfer swoop for a striker before the five o’clock cut-off point. Manager Joe Royle has so far drawn blanks in his moves...
NEW laser therapy for varicose veins stripped away 50 years of discomfort in just 45 minutes for a Shaw grandmother. Beverley Whitehead (65), of Dorset Avenue, Shaw, developed...
A MINUTE’S silence in memory of Leon Walker will be held before Oldham’s home game against Workington this weekend. The Roughyeds’ tribute to the 20-year-old...
COUNCIL chiefs have launched a support programme for staff as they prepare to make hundreds of workers redundant to cover a £17.3million budget blackhole. They say a...
They’ll never serve Jack Duckworth with “Coronation Street” bitter in the Rover’s Return — but it could be a lucrative new brew for JW Lees. The...
OLDHAM’S Citizens Advice Bureau is running surgeries to advise people on how they can access free, independent and impartial advice. The service launched earlier this...
WARWICK United reached an Ashton Sunday League final — in this case the President’s Cup — for the first time in five years following a scintillating display...
SPRINGHEAD may live to regret their mid-season dip in form in the Bridgewater Office Supplies Manchester League premier division. The Ashfield Crescent outfit were riding high...
SPRINGBANK caused a huge shock in the premier division of the Ashton Sunday League. Without a win all season, they turned the form book upside down, shook it from side to side...
St Martin’s CE Primary School have joined the growing number of Oldham children keeping fit and staying health with children’s charity MedEquip4Kids. Pupils at St Martin’s...
LOCAL rivals Santos and Oldham Victoria each had a player sent off as they played out a 1-1 draw in division two of the Lancashire and Cheshire League. It was a welcome point...
