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THE credit crunch is affecting Athletic, with managing director Simon Corney warning that the club’s owners will be unable to maintain their current level of financial...
Date Published 10/02/2009
ATHLETIC have entered into a tie-up with Hungarian champions MTK Budapest as they venture overseas in their search for new talent. Managing director Simon Corney, who has...
ATHLETIC chairman Simon Blitz aborted a Trans-Atlantic trip to last week’s Coca-Cola League One game against Bristol Rovers after it was postponed. Mr Blitz had been due...
Ironing firm being taken to cleaners over sign A businessman claims traffic wardens are bullying and harassing his customers before slamming them with parking fines....
Parents’ outrage at sentence THE parents of a 13-year-old schoolgirl have reacted with fury after two Oldham men, who sexually assaulted the youngster as she queued to...
LEE Darnbrough never made it to the top as a player, but the former Athletic goalkeeper has reached the Premier League in his new career. The 31-year-old, who was brought up...
OLDHAM’S green credentials could be boosted by hundreds of new jobs. Council leaders have revealed that a European “green technology” company is looking at...
Worried residents near two controversial quarries have formed groups to investigate tipping and environment issues. The Birks Quarry Action Group, headed by Councillor Barbara...
Saddleworth Planning Committee SADDLEWORTH Parish Council is to add its voice to the growing chorus of objection to plans to tip at the Birks quarry site in a detailed letter...
Shaw and Crompton Parish Council planning committee meeting A PUBLIC inquiry into controversial plans for a warehouse extension and multi-storey car park in Shaw is set to...
It may be five months away but Oldham women are being invited to sign up for Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life 2009. And the charity is asking them to pass on the...
Even snowdrifts failed to stop intrepid delivery men from getting to some of Oldham’s most vulnerable elderly people. Age Concern’s home-shopping service ploughed...
Expats’ fear as fires continue to rage Down Under A FORMER Oldham couple have described the hell of the Australian inferno they fear could spread to their home. Arnold and...
MOSSLEY are bracing themselves for another week without football at Seel Park. After postponing two home fixtures in the last 10 days, the Lilywhites face a further spell of...
AN Oldham Euro-MP has slammed the European Parliament for refusing to accept that population growth is a major factor in climate change. Euro-MPs in Strasbourg voted against...
Oldham Council Cabinet meeting reports OLDHAM needs a better mix of more affordable properties to house a growing waiting list. Cabinet approved a paper that sets out a...
LEADERS Glodwick were surprisingly beaten 6-4 at Honeywell Lane A in the Oldham Table Tennis League. Wins by Steve Barber (3) Adam Rowbotham (2) and Tommy Ryan (1) gave Honeywell...
LIKE a carefully prepared set piece on a Hollywood blockbuster, the England cricket team was a disaster waiting to happen in every sense. But even set against the standards of...
Early risers in a Saddleworth hamlet got a shock yesterday when a double-deck bus lumbered up a narrow country lane. The 12-tonne, 74-seater bus had taken a wrong turn at...
When a fan of a local radio station offered to write its name in the snow, bosses at 96.2FM The Revolution weren’t expecting what happened next. The listener —...
Giving people in Oldham a say on the big issues Have you ever wanted, when some big event occurs whether locally or nationally, to give an opinion or make a proposal about...
THE draw for the second round of the Thwaites Brewery Crompton League team knock-out is: High Crompton Cons (crib Scooby’s) v Weavers Answer, White Hart (Heyside CC A) v...
TWO more charities are to benefit from a band which has become synonymous with coming to the aid of good causes. Music fans still have the chance to buy tickets for the...
OLDHAM under-15s footballers must try again to make it through to the last four of the Greater Manchester Schools’ County Cup after their quarter-final clash against Bolton...
NIGHT school art students saw their work coming out of the classroom and thrust into the spotlight in a major exhibition in Saddleworth. Around 30 drawings from the exhibition...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards KEMPTON 2.05 Play Up Pompey 2.35 Northern Desert 3.05 Mocha Java...
The family of the late Angela Bearpark have asked us to make it clear she died following a short illness and that her son, Angelo, has not been involved the with Berner Oberland...
AN Oldham nurse is swopping the wards at the Royal Oldham Hospital for war-zones thanks to a new online fitness plan. Losing weight hasn’t been easy for Emma Louise...
THE other week the three of us sat staring out of the back window into the garden for an hour. We had a pen and paper to hand and we ticked a box everytime we saw a bird. It was...
Beats THEY say friends who play together, stay together. And after years of honing their sound, writing songs and playing shows, The Coast are ready for the big time....
