You are Here: Home » News » News Archives
Welcome to the News Archives.
You can browse all our archived articles using the list below or use the following search form.
Looking for newer articles? Try the Recent News Search.
63158 Article(s) Found
NHS Oldham has hit national accident and emergency treatment targets. Department of Health targets require 98 per cent of accident and emergency patients to be treated within...
Date Published 06/03/2009
YOUNG professionals with plumbing careers in the pipeline went head-to-head in an industry challenge at Oldham College. The HIP! Heating Engineers, Installers and Plumbers...
OLDHAM RUFC have injury worries and are unable to finalise their side to play at Keswick in North Lancs/Cumbria division. Exciting centre Michael Ward and pack-man Ross Cooper...
IT WAS best foot forward for a group of fundraisers taking part in a sponsored walk to highlight local issues of poverty and homelessness. Staff and residents from the...
STAFF and children from Burnley Brow School welcomed a special guest from California. Dr Spencer Kagan visited the Chadderton school to see the impact his Cooperative Learning...
THREE members of the Oldham Aquatics swim team will be bidding for glory at the British Championships at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, between March 16-20. Jessica Lloyd (centre), a...
Laser technology proves a hit with tech-teams Technology students at Oldham schools have tapped into one of the wonders of science for a special competition. Pupils from...
PEOPLE will now be able to text for details on how to report minor crimes. Residents can text to get the phone number for their local neighbourhood policing team and their...
POLICE will be lighting up local communities in a bid to protect homes from burglars. Officers will hand out 24,000 energy-saving light bulbs as part of a crime-fighting...
WANTED: Football manager (full-time). An up-and-coming football team requires a new manager to gain promotion and bring in new employees. Must have experience, ex-players...
INTERNATIONAL soloists will join Oldham Choral Society to perform a Bach masterpiece at one of Ashton’s most beautiful buildings. Soprano Nicola Howard, alto Adrienne...
A CENTURY has passed since Manchester-born Alliott Verdon Roe took to the skies for the first ever all-British flight. And aviation fans can celebrate the 100th anniversary at...
THE Chadderton Mill AC match fished on the club water saw a new match record with Paul Hill tipping an incredible 67lb 8oz on to the scales. Fishing waggler and maggot,...
In the latest in a series of Friday science features, genetic food modification is explained by Professor Rob Smith of the School of Applied Sciences at University Campus...
Bridgewater Office Supplies Manchester League, premier division: Atherton Town v Springhead; Avro v Rochdale SH; Breightmet United v Hindsford; East Manchester v Pennington; Elton...
Club Call highlights the hard work of community organisations and groups in the Oldham area. here reporter BEATRIZ AYALA speaks to Barry Stretton, who runs the weekly modern...
PRODUCER Ellen Kent recently announced she was giving up touring her imported East European opera companies and doing a few large-scale amphitheatre productions instead. But...
UP THE ANTE CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL SPECIAL THE Cheltenham Festival is almost upon us so tonight I’m looking at the races coming up on Thursday and Friday. Most...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
Police plea to catch shooter A MAN is recovering in hospital after another shooting in Glodwick. The 28-year-old victim was shot in the buttocks in Bolton Street at 9pm on...
Date Published 05/03/2009
Bar sacks everyone over stock ‘fiddle’ SHOCKED staff are considering legal action after a town centre cocktail bar sacked its work force amid allegations that...
OLDHAM Mountain Rescue Team joined forces with the Air Ambulance and paramedics to rescue a 70-year-old woman from the Dovestone area yesterday. The call for help was made to...
A BUSINESSMAN was attacked with a hammer and robbed in Failsworth after withdrawing cash to pay his staff. The 43-year-old had been to the NatWest bank, in Oldham Road, last...
A SPECIALIST police officer has backed concerns about road safety if a tipping permit is granted at a controversial site. Sgt Dean Memory, of GMP’s traffic management...
AMBULANCE chiefs say workers spending their wages on booze on pay day are behind a surge in alcohol-related incidents. They are urging people to drink safely and responsibly...
SOARING unemployment has put a flagship programme to get the region’s long-term jobless back to work at serious risk of ‘failure’, a committee of MPs has warned....
East Oldham Area Committee meeting reports by USMA RAJA GUN crime is rife — but not appearing on police reports it was claimed. Councillor Mohammed Masud said he had...
Two Oldham schools could help pupils with complex communication problems, such as autism, under proposals going out for public consultation. Two new bases at North Chadderton...
GOVERNMENT minister Phil Woolas today hit back amid calls for him to be sacked — saying it was his job to talk about immigration. The Oldham East and Saddleworth MP and...
Collector Dave Neild is hoping to reunite the First World War medals of a Chadderton hero. The 37-year-old recently bought 14051 Company Sergeant Major James Ashworth’s...
