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MARK HUGHES admits the absence of Craig Bellamy will leave a major hole in his Manchester City side to tackle Aston Villa at Eastlands tonight. Bellamy will be out for at...
Date Published 04/03/2009
JOHN Hough has a dream: to fill Oldham's first-team with young, local players. The reserves coach, who signed a new one-year deal along with assistant Leo Casey to take charge...
OLDHAM skipper Robert Roberts is as popular in the borough's primary schools as he is when leading the Roughyeds into battle at Boundary Park. There are few, if any, primary...
CHIEF executive Chris Hamilton is hoping for a bumper attendance for this weekend’s Challenge Cup third round tie at home to Sharlston Rovers (3pm). The club have taken...
TONY Benson has paid tribute to the travelling hordes of Roughyeds fans present at Hunslet. The Roughyeds coach was impressed with the loud support offered to his side during...
OLDHAM-based cycling ace Chris Newton showed he is hitting form in time for the start of the season with a series of good performances in the Boland Tour four-day stage race in...
OLDHAM RUFC’S second team ended a run of five successive league defeats in division fourth east with a 25-10 victory at Didsbury Toc H fourths. The victory was secured...
Manchester Phoenix landed their tenth win in 14 games with a well-earned 5-2 win over Basingstoke last night. Man-of-the-match Lucas Burnett was the hero, grabbing a brace, to...
A LOCAL golfer is bidding to raise as much as £10,000 for charity by running a team competition — at the famous La Manga Club in Spain. Pete Hilton (pictured), a...
DEAF B have retained their five-point lead at the top of the Oldham Amateur Snooker League thanks to a 4-2 victory at home to Little Cot. Danny Balcerzak got Cot B off to a...
£5m windfall will help to build best club in land OLDHAM is celebrating a £5 million windfall which means it will get a cutting edge youth centre to rival the best in...
Inspectors slam standards as ‘not value for money’ TROUBLED Counthill School has been given an official notice to improve by education inspectors. It has been...
Alterations to final collection times at around 50 of 600 Oldham post boxes could have an impact on businesses, it was claimed today. The new move will see times brought...
POLICE have yet to reveal the identity of man found dead in a stream at Stannybrook Road, Failsworth, close to Daisy Nook Country Park, on Monday. (2) A post mortem revealed...
MORE than £4 million of funding will be ploughed into school projects in Oldham a year earlier than planned to kick start the local economy. Schools Secretary Ed Balls...
ALMOST £500,000 will be ploughed into educating people on road safety in five areas across the borough with worrying levels of accidents, Government said. Oldham was one...
Firms are considering joint legal action after the collapse of telecoms company Global led to hundreds of phone lines going dead. They include a Royton engineering company...
BIDDING is over for a sprouting McDonald’s chip on eBay. Chadderton policeman Matthew Young placed the item on the auction site after discovering it at the chain’s...
PROUD Chaddertonians can wear their colours on their chest. That’s because the town’s historical society has produced two badges featuring the Chadderton Griffin....
HEYSIDE Juniors pulled off the shock of the season in the under-15s division of the Rochdale and Oldham Youth League when they won 3-1 at leaders Littleborough. The Hare Hill...
TWENTY-THREE members of the Oldham Aquatic swim team are back from a ground-breaking warm-weather training camp in the Canary Isles. The youngsters spent a week at...
A CONVINCING 22-0 win over Leigh Miners Rangers secured the North-West Counties League second division title for Saddleworth Rangers under-16s. In the final game of their...
MPs will today demand urgent action to Save the Great British Pub‚ after alarming figures revealed 16 have been lost in Oldham in just four years. A panel of five...
MOUNTED police joined pupils at Failsworth School for a lesson with a difference about crime prevention. Officers and their horses from the Failsworth and Hollinwood...
PARK enthusiasts have been caught short for over a week after vandals forced the closure of Alexandra Park toilets. Damage to the facilities includes graffiti on the walls,...
Tame Valley, without the services of their regular top two, suffered a 5-0 defeat against Springfield 1st in Division 2 Central of the JJB North West Counties League. The...
REALITY TV star Jade Goody has dominated the front pages with her battle against cancer. But is the 27-year-old right to make such a private tragedy so public as she looks to...
BETTING on a cricket match seems to be a rather futile exercise following yesterday’s dreadful events in Pakistan, but life goes on and those insistent on punting on the...
WHILE Greenfield residents celebrate a new railway station, thousands of other Oldhamers are getting a raw deal, says a watchdog. The majority who travel daily to Manchester...
NORTH-WEST Air Ambulance (NWAA) is welcoming onboard its own paramedics as it flies into a new era. It will take over full responsibility for operation and staffing of its two...
