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THE countdown to Christmas and the start of Oldham’s festivities was heralded on Saturday with the arrival of Santa on a sleigh drawn by his team of trusty reindeer. The...
Date Published 10/11/2008
VIOLENCE against hospital and mental health staff in Oldham has risen. But Oldham Primary Care Trust has bucked the national trend after assaults against GPs and trust workers...
A vandal-hit rugby club where hundreds of Oldham youngsters have trained, has been attacked again. Hollinwood Rugby Club in Fields New Road, Chadderton, has been covered in...
FOUR members of Oldham Youth Council helped report the news as well as make it as part of the national 11 Million Youth Takeover Day. Youth Council chairman Mohammed Adil and...
UP to 90 homes could be built on a derelict site in Chadderton. The plan is for a mixture of two and three-storey houses and four-storey flats on land at Rose Mill, Rose...
Wright slams co-owner’s comments
OLDHAM are hoping to play ALL their home games at Boundary Park next season. In all previous campaigns since the club reformed in 1997, work on the playing surface during the...
MANCHESTER City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak has given a ringing endorsement of Mark Hughes’ qualities as a manager. The two men met before City’s 2–1 home...
Oldham stands together to salute war dead THOUSANDS of Oldhamers braved biting winds yesterday in an act of remembrance for the soldiers and servicemen who sacrificed their...
A MASKED robber threatened a delivery guard with a machete outside the Royal Bank Of Scotland, in Mossley, before making off with the cash box he was carrying. The raider, who...
THREE teenagers suffered serious injuries in separate accidents at the weekend. In the first, on Friday night, two girls were struck by a car in Broadway, Chadderton, as they...
DERKER residents have been reassured that regeneration efforts will continue whatever the outcome of a High Court battle to save homes from demolition. A group of residents...
AFTER years of vandalism and anti-social-behaviour, Oldham Council has finally closed the old public toilets next to Crompton pool in Shaw. The steady decline in use plus the...
From a terrible first half to a terrific recovery, Latics earn second bite of the cherry
OLDHAM’S motorways and trunk roads would be privatised within a year of a Conservative general election win, a member of the Government’s transport think tank...
THE Premier League title race took another dramatic twist with Manchester United’s surprise defeat at Arsenal. Judging by the crisis which appeared to be enveloping the...
MANY children in Oldham will already be dreaming of a Christmas filled with family fun and games. But others will be just be dreaming of having a family. There are 24 children...
HOW Mark Hughes must yearn for just a modicum of the luck which Harry Redknapp has enjoyed since taking charge at Tottenham Hotspur. While Redknapp can do no wrong - Spurs...
HERE is a another chance for you to vote for the readers’ choice award as part of Pride in Oldham, 2008. Votes have been coming in for those nominees whom you, the...
‘I never expected to be doing this’ MOORSIDE psychic Anne Scholes was a busy career woman and mother of two young girls with her future firmly mapped out. At...
A LIGHT and sound spectacular enthralled revellers at Shaw Cricket Club’s bonfire display. The annual event is one of the largest organised bonfires in the Oldham area...
THEY came out of Africa to say thank-you. And church members in Delph were high on the list of benefactors. The Destiny Africa Children’s Choir is currently on its first...
THIS is a golden year for Oldham’s Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied (PHAB) group which is marking the national charity’s 50th birthday. PHAB is for people...
BUSY Santa Claus is set to spread Christmas cheer and raise charity cash by touring the streets. He’s teamed up with his friends at the Rotary Club of Crompton and...
SIX young men who returned to learning have been rewarded at a ceremony at a top Oldham hotel. More than 60 people watched the presentations, part of the the Learning...
FA CUP hero Chris Worsley's feet were back on the ground today as he returned to work as a forklift truck driver in a Royton warehouse. The 21-year-old, who works at Money...
Steve Coogan, Manchester Apollo DESPITE less than favourable reviews of his 40 date UK tour I was more than confident that Middleton comic Steve Coogan would put on a fantastic...
THE ART OF BEING IN LOVE... AH love . . . it’s like a summers day, warm and uplifting. It’s an irresistible glimpse of heaven, a friendship set on fire. It’s like hot...
CHADDERTON were involved in the snatch of the day as they won 1-0 at AFC Blackpool to climb to fourth place in division one of the Vodkat North West Counties League. Manager...
OLDHAM St Anne’s produced a superb performance to turn the form book on its head and win 12-10 at promotion challengers Castleford Panthers in National Conference League...
