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THOUSANDS of people have had wrong information logged by the Criminal Records Bureau, the Home Office has revealed. And more than 12,000 people have successfully challenged...
Date Published 14/11/2008
MONDAY marks the start of National Anti-Bullying Week and local youngsters will be working together to make a difference. This year’s theme is “being different,...
SPRIGHTLY Alice Lord cracked open the champagne today as she celebrated her 100th birthday at Alexandra House in Queens Road, where she has lived for the past eight years....
A NATIONAL charity is on the hunt for local community groups to help improve lives in Oldham. In Control wants charities, support groups and community organisations to join a...
The Chronicles of Alda — a personal look at 1,000 years of Oldham ONE of the finest things about my being in spirit these past 1,100 years or so is the pleasure I take...
OLDHAM Symphony Orchestra’s autumn concert gets romantic at Hulme Grammar School on November 16 (7.30pm). Rachmaninov’s popular second piano concerto will be...
WHEN Andrew Ditchett woke up in Australia after two weeks in a coma he thought he had been in a speedboat accident and his family wanted him dead. But the 34-year-old had been...
GET the festive season off to an arty start at the Woodend Artists Winter Art Bazaar and Exhibition. The event will be held on November 29 and 30 at Woodend Mill, Manchester...
KEVIN MAHER is poised for a return to central midfield when Athletic face Northampton at the Sixfields Stadium tomorrow. Maher has not started a league game since the opening...
A MAN who “died” twice after a road accident in South Africa says his new life started when he came to work in Oldham. David Maas from Oakbank Avenue, Chadderton, was saved...
DANNY JONES will return to his old stamping ground tomorrow expecting a three-point haul for Athletic.
MANCHESTER United have fitness concerns over Patrice Evra (ankle) and Darren Fletcher (knee) tis weekend. But there will be a host of changes following Tuesday’s Carling...
FORMER Manchester United player Danny Higginbotham insists it would be wrong to write off Stoke City in tomorrow’s Premier League clash at Old Trafford. Higginbotham,...
MANCHESTER City could find themselves in the Premier League’s relegation places by the time they travel to Hull City on Sunday. Should tomorrow’s results go...
OLDHAM Town will tomorrow bid for a place in the last 64 of the FA Vase when they travel to Bootle for a second-round tie. “When you consider there were 514 teams which...
CONSISTENCY is the key word for Oldham St Anne’s as they bid to build on last week’s stunning win at Castleford Panthers. Few observers fancied Saints’...
OLDHAM-based Mongolian fighter Shinny Bayaar will take on a boxer from Spain in Shaw on Sunday for the vacant International Masters super-flyweight title. Local promoter Jack...
OLDHAM RUFC’S hopes of pulling further away from danger in North Lancs/Cumbria division have been dealt a blow. Just when the Manor Park side looked to be finally...
Manchester Phoenix player-coach Tony Hand and netminder Stephen Murphy will return in Sunday’s match-up with Belfast Giants. The duo have been on Team GB’s...
ROYTON schoolboy boxer John Newell has the fight of his life on Sunday when he bids to win a place in the final of the junior novice ABA’s. The 15 year old has already...
DYNAMIC Darren Smithies is making his mark on the national pool scene. The Royton 15-year-old traded pots with some of the country’s top youngsters on his way to the...
Local sport: Angling by JAN VERBRUGGEN THE Pilsworth Tuesday open match fished on the top ponds was won by Tom Haslam with a mainly carp-based 17lb 2oz, beating Tony Lomax...
FIXTURES FOOTBALL : Bridgewater Office Supplies Manchester League, premier division: Avro v Pennington; Breightmet United v Hollinwood; Elton Vale v Rochdale Sacred Heart;...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards GREAT LEIGHS 1.20 Mayaalah 1.55 Arctic Freedom 2.30 Timeteam 3.05...
WORKERS braced for up to 850 redundancies have been sent a three-page blog celebrating a £14,000 trip to China by five senior Oldham Council representatives. Details of...
Date Published 13/11/2008
VIEW THE ASSAULT ONLINE - IDENTIFY THE THUGS POLICE have released video footage of an horrific attack in Oldham town centre in a bid to trace the thugs who left a 17-year-old...
HALF of Oldham’s primary schools are in for a facelift and new ones could be built after the Government promised a multi-million-pound cash injection last night. Schools...
A 26-YEAR-OLD man who tried to hide two missing girls from the police has escaped jail after a judge accepted there was no sexual motive to his conduct. James Seery, of...
OLD people have been warned to beware of a young couple who have been tricking their way into homes in Saddleworth and Lees. On Monday, the man and woman, aged in their 20s,...
DR KERSHAW’S Hospice is struggling to keep its head above water as Oldhamers hit by the credit crunch tighten their belts. And its medical director, Dr Paul Cook, has...
