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Police have released an image of two Oldham fans involved in football violence on the day Latics were hammered 5-0 at struggling Hereford. The incident, on January 17,...
Date Published 25/02/2009
OLDHAM NUT chiefs say a major report has backed their calls for SATS and league tables to be scrapped. The Cambridge University review of the Primary Curriculum concluded that...
Anti-tip protesters have renewed their demands for the closure of a controversial Saddleworth tip. Diane Bolan, whose farm backs on to High Moor landfill, was responding to...
IT’S best foot forward for staff at Failsworth School who are swopping books for walking boots for the Three Peaks Challenge. A team of 22 teachers and staff, plus staff...
An amateur footballer lashed out and punched an opposition player in the face so he could get a better position for a corner kick. Father-of-three Philip Cartmill (30), of...
A BOOZY night out led to an Oldham driver being banned from the road for two years at Manchester Magistrates’ Court. Daniel Wilds (26), of Station Mews, Failsworth, was...
EAGLE-EYED canal users are being urged to use a new hotline to report dumped supermarket trolleys in canals and rivers. British Waterways is urging local residents to report...
Water bosses and fire chiefs have struck a pioneering deal to protect Oldham against major blazes. United Utilities has teamed up with Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue...
IT once hosted top acts who graced Sunday Night at the London Palladium, but the curtain will fall for the final time at Oldham’s Pennine Lounge on Saturday. The venue,...
PLUCKY Chadderton were beaten 3-2 at AFC Liverpool last night in the quarter-finals of the Vodkat North-West Counties League’s First Division Trophy. Dave Shaw cancelled out...
LATICS have taken delivery of a consignment of pink scarves — rushed through from the manufacturers — as the the big televised clash with Leeds United gets nearer....
POLICE in Failsworth and Hollinwood are focusing on community crime this week during a week of action. Residents are invited to speak to local officers tomorrow when the...
LOCAL golf professional Scott Connor is back from America where he has been studying the techniques of three top coaches. The 21-year-old from Royton has spent time with Butch...
OLDHAM MPs last night urged ministers to rethink plans to part-privatise Royal Mail as hundreds of postal workers protested in Westminster. Ministers say the company cannot...
THE league leaders played the second team in the Saw-Tech Shaw Snooker League and top dogs Cricket B enjoyed a comfortable 5-1 win over Comrades B. Third-placed Crompton Cons...
HOMES that cannot be sold because of the property crash should be bought by the Government for Oldham’s rising army of homeless, MPs have demanded. Any home on the...
CHILDREN have been told to go outside and get dirty by the National Trust. The organisation is to launch a Wild Child campaign this summer in a bid to curb childhood obesity...
DAWN ECKERSLEY — with our volunteers every step of the way — reports at the halfway point in the programme WITH only a nine- point gap there’s still everything to play for in...
GETTING the Evening Chronicle delivered at home proved the right move for Coldhurst man Tony Bennett. The loyal Chronicle reader picked up £100 in a free monthly prize...
The chance to hear Britain’s most successful brass band comes to Uppermill on Saturday. The Black Dyke players and their conductor and musical director, Dr Nic Childs,...
Oldham team on verge of crowning glory GET set for a championship decider at the Lancaster Club on Saturday. Oldham Schools under-14s will land the Greater Manchester...
“Cinderella on Ice” Opera House, Manchester THIS classic tale comes with a twist which must have been somewhat confusing for the large numbers of children among the...
THE last time Jade Goody hit the headlines as much as she has done this past week was when she was chucked off “Celebrity Big Brother” and unilaterally accused of...
JUDGING of the first-ever Oldham Business Awards has begun - and the judging panels face a mammoth task. When the deadline for entries closed last week there were more than 70...
continuing our round up of the first Chronicle Business Awards entries Businessman of the Year — sponsored by Asian Business Association Criteria An...
KYLE Mayall celebrated his England call-up in fine style picking up 26 points to keep Oldham St Anne’s under-15s at the top of the North-West Counties League division one...
Tame Valley first team further eased their relegation fears with a second succesive victory in Division 2 Central of the JJB North West Counties Squash League. Jamie Maddox,...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
A FORMER boxer was told he was fighting out of his league after being exposed as the secret mastermind of an £11 million bootleg gang which smuggled 72 million counterfeit...
Date Published 24/02/2009
A HAULAGE firm boss whose company has gone to the wall has defended himself against criticism from angry employees. Seven lorry drivers made redundant from Royton-based JPM...
