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Oldham Planning Committee OLDHAM Council has been ordered to pay the costs of appeal proceedings to Hulme Grammar School. The school lodged a successful appeal after after...
Date Published 12/03/2009
AUDITIONS have started for a talent show which is bringing variety theatre back to Saddleworth. Seven entrants tripped the boards at Boarshurst Band Club for the first heat of...
CUSTOMER service can be a funny thing. I’ve had two interesting experiences lately — and let me say right from the start that both were resolved to my satisfaction and...
ATHLETIC’S board of directors were meeting today to discuss the unsavoury incidents at Belle Vue dog track. The Coca-Cola League One outfit were also taking legal advice...
Date Published 11/03/2009
THE Boundary Park battle between Oldham and Dewsbury Rams — the joint favourites for Co-operative Championship One — will now take place on Sunday, April 19 (3pm kick...
Paul Scholes has demanded the same again ahead of Manchester United's Champions League night of destiny with Inter Milan. Scholes is expected to be part of the United side...
MANY big-hitters took a blow to the wallet when Binocular was floored in yesterday’s Champion Hurdle, but favourite-backers may retrieve losses and a little on top when...
Mossley’s hopes of making a late charge into the UniBond League division one north play-offs suffered a setback last night. The Lilywhites went down 3-0 at Ossett...
Latics fans continue to have their say over the team’s less edifying recent antics... CAN you imagine Wayne Rooney having Sir Flex Ferguson in a headlock? Think not!...
YOUR GUIDE TO THE NEW LEAGUE SEASON WITH the league season set to begin, we are quite possibly ahead of where I envisaged us being before the Northern Rail Cup campaign got...
UMPIRES are to meet first and second team captains before the start of the new Armstrong Office Furniture Saddleworth and District Cricket League season. The idea of the...
Manchester Phoenix face two important games in Cardiff as they bid to stay in a prime play-off position. Currently lying fifth in the Elite Ice Hockey League, they travel to...
LAURENCE Dawson had double success at Werneth. First he won the March medal with a 74-13-61 to beat John Parnell (79-12=62) by a shot. Then, next day, he partnered Adie...
LAUNCHED TONIGHT: FUNDRAISING FOR NEW £17m CHRISTIE CENTRE IN OLDHAM THE world-famous Christie Hospital has teamed up with the Oldham Chronicle to launch a £100,000 appeal to...
MANCHESTER United v Inter Milan, Sir Alex Ferguson v Jose Mourinho. It doesn’t get much better than tonight’s Champions League last-16 showdown at Old Trafford and...
THIS fab five got the £100,000 Christie at Oldham Campaign off to a cracking start, with a pedal push which netted around £1,000. The Hulme Grammar School pupils...
A Limeside thug has been jailed for six years after a man and his friend were tortured in a raid. Victim Stephen Phillips had one ear pierced with a pen and the other burnt...
A LONG round trip to Essex ended in disappointment for Oldham Netball Club in their National League encounter against Essex Open. Oldham didn’t start well and made...
ROBERT FROGGATT had an inspired match for Oldham RUFC’s veterans as they walloped Ashton-under-Lyne’s second team 57-12. Froggatt scored 32 of the points, chalking...
OLDHAM’S new £17 million radiotherapy centre, the first of its kind in England, will go ahead — despite the Christie charity losing £6.5 million in an...
Two teenage robbers terrorised victims across Greater Manchester in a 10-day crime spree. The pair, aged 14 and 17 and both from Failsworth, targeted eight people between...
Plans for a new Catholic secondary school in Oldham were drawn up for land the council did not own, driven by a management team which was too small and a partnership board which...
Tame Valley’s first team bounced back to form to beat Reedley 1st 3-2 in Division 2 Central of the JJB North West Counties League. Jamie Maddox, Amir Manachouri and Herbie...
ROBBERS armed with knives and machetes stole cash from a store full of terrified staff — the second incident in two months. Up to six offenders stormed into B+M...
The Government has stepped in to support Greater Manchester’s £4 billion waste disposal contract after fears about the credit crunch. The contract, due to be...
A desperate gambler has been jailed for eight months after trapping himself inside a bookmakers during a failed robbery. Faraz Ahmed (21), of Frederick Street, Oldham, walked...
TWO Oldham councillors are calling for local jobs for local people when housing work is carried out in the borough. Councillors John McCann and Dave Hibbert, who have raised...
MORE than 310 council buildings across Oldham are known to contain deadly asbestos, an MP has revealed. The shocking revelations came to light after a series of Freedom of...
OLDHAM was last night guaranteed £27million to help revitalise the housing market in key areas and restore stable communities. The cash is part of £350 million...
OLDHAM’S ambition to create a new “studio school” for struggling or expelled pupils moved a step closer last night after Government backed the proposals....
