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PELICAN PR has been chosen to promote Futuresource 2009, a major new European sustainability exhibition. Taking place at the London ExCeL arena in June, the ambitious new...
Date Published 21/01/2009
PREMISES formerly occupied by estate agents Ryder and Dutton have been converted into a fast-food restaurant. Businessman Raja Sajid and his associates have invested more than...
“MACABRE” was the theme on the invitation I received for a friend’s 50th birthday party last weekend. But a black shirt under my DJ, brought marginally to...
PRESIDENT Obama’s glittering inauguration yesterday was keenly observed around the world as millions tuned in to watch history in the making. But while the world has...
LIKE a slap in the face with a wet cod, it struck me last week that I’m too old to train as an astronaut. Not that I have any burning desire, not since Valentina...
Wednesday - Choosing healthy food is boring
Wednesday - base your meals on starchy foods
Farewell to the bacon butty . . . Deputy Editor David Whaley, one of the judges on this year's Get Moving to Health programme, has decided to lose the pounds at the same time as...
Minister’s stark warning as five Oldham schools fail to make the grade SCHOOLS secretary Ed Balls last night issued a stark warning to five Oldham school that Government...
Date Published 20/01/2009
EDUCATION chiefs have cost South Chadderton School more than £500,000, it is claimed. After years of work it has failed to gain specialist engineering status because of...
A 15-YEAR-OLD was stabbed after two men demanded his mobile phone on Saturday morning. Police were called just after midnight by paramedics who reported the stabbing in...
IT’S official. Royton and Crompton is the country’s sixth most improved school according to a new league table. It has earned the impressive ranking in the GCSE...
A GOOD deed by police backfired causing major gridlock in last night’s snow. Officers closed a section of the A62 near Scouthead after cars skidded on ice and snow. But...
ATHLETIC’S lengthy search for a left-back has finally ended with the loan capture of Reading reserve-team player Scott Golbourne. The 20-year-old, who is thirsting for...
THE first clash of the season between the ‘big two’ in Co-operative Championship One — Oldham Roughyeds and Dewsbury Rams — will form the second half of a...
A Coppice family is in shock after their 26-year-old son fell four floors to his death. Anoyoth Ali’s body was found outside Oakenclough Avenue on the Barker Street...
MANCHESTER United’s recent signing Zoran Tosic is ready for his Red Devils bow. Tosic has not played a competitive game since the beginning of December, and manager Sir...
MANCHESTER City’s record signing Robinho has left the club’s training camp in Tenerife, it has been confirmed. The club have given no official reason for the...
A CAMPAIGNING housewife is demanding answers from the boss of a Government watchdog over noxious smells that ruined her family’s Christmas and New Year. Mother-of-two...
TIME LIMIT . . . Travellers who set up camp at Manchester Cabins in Hollinwood were given two days to leave TRAVELLERS have set up camp in Hollinwood, on the site of a future...
REUBEN Hazell, Athletic’s player-of-the-month award winner for December, wants to stay at Boundary Park for the rest of his career. The 29-year-old defender, who is out...
A former RAF squadron leader is demanding an urgent traffic survey on a busy road which runs past the entrance to a proposed new landfill site at Birks Quarry. Rob Knotts,...
DEAN Windass has revealed the inside track on life at Boundary Park in his weekly column for a national newspaper. Following the 39-year-old’s loan move to Athletic,...
JOHN SHERIDAN has denied that his search for a new left-back is a slight on Kelvin Lomax. The 22-year-old, who usually plays on the right, has made 14 of his 22 league...
CANCER sufferers in Oldham can today apply for free prescriptions which will come into effect in April. At the Labour party’s annual conference, PM Gordon Brown...
THERE are over 50,000 job vacancies in the North-West and help is available for people struggling during the credit crunch, says a Government minister. Beverley Hughes,...
EX-PAT Oldhamer Ian Bostock has become friends with former Athletic footballer Gary Williams after both built a new life in sunny Spain. And it was through football - the sons...
POLICE took to the skies to track down a thief in an unconventional crime bust. Officers received reports of a burglary on Pastures Lane, Scouthead, on Sunday morning and...
A GREEN haulage company backed by two of TV’s “Dragons’ Den” millionaires could survive the credit crunch by being sold, according to the Manchester firm...
THERE was a dramatic finish to Athletic’s 1-1 draw at Bury in the North-West Conference of the Puma Youth Alliance. It looked as though Bury had snatched victory when...
