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A PLANNED roadside exclusion zone designed to protect a business has ended up driving the owner round the bend. When work was halted half- way through mapping out an...
Date Published 02/12/2008
ATHLETIC have cancelled the contract of teenager Aaron Chalmers for disciplinary reasons. It is understood Athletic had lost patience with the 17-year-old defender/midfield...
THIRSTY football fans are being ripped off by the sky-high cost of a pint of lager at Premier League Manchester City, it was claimed yesterday. The Liberal Democrats hit out...
THE banking and credit crisis has slowed the work on finalising Greater Manchester’s £330 million waste disposal contract. More than 100 new jobs will be created...
CRISTIANO Ronaldo hailed “one of the most beautiful days of my life” and vowed to keep improving after winning the prestigious Ballon d’Or award in the early...
CENTRE Danny Halliwell has been given the all-clear to carry on training after seeing a specialist regarding a troublesome abdominal injury. The 27-year-old Roughyeds player...
A MINISTER is victorious in defeat in his battle over Oak Colliery site at Hollinwood. The Oldham Commons Registration Committee last week turned down the application for town...
Mark’s 20-year milestone at first-team level ATHLETIC goalkeeper Mark Crossley is celebrating the rare landmark of 20 years in first-team football. Crossley made his debut...
PARTYGOERS in Oldham are being warned of the dangers of drinking too much and leaving themselves vulnerable to rape and sexual assaults. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has...
ATHLETIC are confident of selling out all the home sections of Boundary Park for their game against Leyton Orient this month. Prices have been reduced across the board and...
THE results of a rigorous job evaluation process will be revealed to council workers today. Employees have received the results from the first stage of a council-wide review...
A MINI ice-rink is being installed in Market Place Oldham as part of this weekend’s Winter Wonderland extravaganza. Visitors and shoppers will be treated to live music,...
THE most talked about player at Boundary Park this season is also running away with the Chronicle’s Star Man award. With 23 league and cup games gone, left-winger Chris Taylor...
GREATER Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) is running a campaign to tackle house fires in Oldham. In the run up to Christmas and Eid, officers are focusing on the three Cs...
Local non-league football THE lights have gone out on floodlit games at Chadderton Football Club for the foreseeable future. A problem with the floodlights, which surfaced...
MORE controls are needed on lap-dancing clubs, which can lead to a rise in sex attacks on women and sexually-transmitted diseases, according to Oldham’s licensing bosses....
A DRIVE to get more young people tested for chlamydia takes to the road this week as “ad vans” tour Oldham. And 10 “dump bins” will be placed at...
FROM outlawing mole catcher’s poisons to dangerous toys, the region’s Euro-MPs scrutinise rafts of new laws every year, which impact in some way on every voter in...
Local cricket BOB WEEDON’S scruffy blue cap has a lot to answer for. Out of the Greenfield secretary’s well-worn piece of headgear was drawn the first round of next...
TWO talented young artists have had a brush with fame. The Delph Primary School pair — eight-year-old Derry Lewis and Alexandra Ransome (10) — were among 36...
Bowls REIGNING champions Royle came back from the dead to beat fellow title hopefuls Hopwood in the Inbev Winter Bowling League’s ‘A’ Division at Chadderton...
NOW that the Brand/Ross debacle has finally ended, which only happened in my opinion because it dawned on the press that there was something slightly more important brewing, oh...
Table Tennis round up CURRENT fourth division leaders Unison D were defeated 7-3 by third-placed Owls B in the Oldham Table Tennis League. That enabled OTTC C to draw...
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THERE is a fine line between innovation and gimmickry, as anyone who has bought a recent Radiohead album will be only too well aware. The Rugby Football League, though,...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards KEMPTON 6.20 Pop Music 6.50 Cabopino 7.20 Sonhador 7.50 Casual Style 8.20...
THIS sharply dressed conman is on the run with £263,000 stolen from a businessman’s Oldham bank account. The images of the fraudster, in a smart suit and tie,...
Date Published 01/12/2008
TWO members of staff have been suspended from a Royton care home following allegations of abuse. Worried relatives spent the weekend trying to obtain information on what had...
A 32-YEAR-OLD Chadderton man was sentenced to indefinite detention in a secure hospital for stabbing a gifted violinist to death. Jonathan Mills, of Dawlish Avenue,...
ARMED raiders who threatened to kill a woman assistant at the Halifax Bank, Shaw, before stealing £30,000, have been jailed for a total of 34 years. Manchester Crown...
