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SADDLEWORTH Rangers are “chomping at the bit” to get their season started, according to coach Keith Brennan. A trip across the Pennines to Shaw Cross Sharks awaits...
Date Published 05/09/2008
HEYSIDE are desperate that their Tanner Cup final against Bamford Fieldhouse takes place tomorrow. If the Armstrongs Office Furniture Saddle-worth and District Cricket...
Deluge leaves sporting youngsters under a cloud THE Olympic hopes of hundreds of Saddleworth youngsters have been washed away — for at least a week and perhaps longer....
A MAN was shot in the neck in a case of mistaken identity by a gunman seeking revenge for a broken watch. Three men have been jailed for the drive-by shooting in Glodwick that...
TWO boys have been arrested after pepper spray was used at Failsworth School. The police, fire and ambulance were called to the new £26 million school in Brierley Avenue...
People living near a controversial landfill site have again been the victims of earth shakes. Problems began at the High Moor tip at Scouthead when a generator which siphons...
OLDHAM RUFC’S second and third teams kick off their new campaign by playing each other in a league fixture. The second team’s relegation coupled with the promotion...
The country’s top judges could be asked to quash the inquest into a mystery man thought to have been Oldham father John Delaney. He went missing eight years ago and,...
TV and radio personality Steve Penk has bought Oldham radio station 96.2 The Revolution. The station, which is based at the Sarah Moor Studios, Henshaw Street, was previously...
HUNDREDS of commuters faced rush-hour chaos this morning following a crash in Shaw last night. Drivers faced huge delays and tailbacks as they approached the Big Lamp...
GREATER Manchester will on Sunday start as clear favourites to regain the County Championship crown they last won two years ago. Derbyshire provide the opposition and although...
A MOSSLEY van driver who breached a motorway road block was fined almost £600. Derek Carley (51), of Stablefold, became the second driver in Tameside to be prosecuted...
Your views on our revealing pictures of the shocking state of the town’s historic landmark WHAT a dreadful shame that the old town hall has been left in that state for so...
TERRIFIED teenager Sarah Ashworth feared she would die when her arm was trapped in a bus door as the vehicle drove off The 19-year-old was forced to run alongside the bus...
ROYTON cyclist Chris Newton is to be given the freedom of the city of Manchester along with the rest of his Olympic team mates. Team GB’s cycling team brought home seven...
CONCERNS over waiting times at accident and emergency departments were raised at yesterday’s board meeting. Steve Sutcliffe, interim director of finance, said Oldham PCT...
OLDHAM Town’s newly-formed youth team certainly embraces the term multi-cultural. Indeed the under-18 set up, which plays in the North-West Youth Alliance, comprises...
CUSTOMERS of a Shaw pub have been left outraged after a thief stole a charity box containing up to £250. He sneaked into the Queen Anne Inn, Church Road, to snatch the...
The Oldham men’s darts team begins the defence of its Lancashire GMC Super League, premier division title on Sunday. The first arrows will be thrown against local rivals...
MORE than 300 children in the North-West are waiting for new families. Now Oldham Adoption Service is on the lookout for a local celebrity to attend a special event...
MANCHESTER Phoenix will be looking for the best possible start this weekend when their Elite Ice Hockey League campaign gets underway. They travel to Hull Stingrays tomorrow...
FOOTBALL hooligans are being warned not to travel to Barcelona for tomorrow night’s World Cup qualifier between Andorra and England. Operation Hillingdon will target...
fixtures Cricket Tomorrow – Lake Garage Central Lancashire League (12.45pm): Clifton v Middleton; Heywood v Littleborough; Milnrow v Oldham; Rochdale v Radcliffe;...
CHEERS! Beer lovers can shrug off the wet weather blues this weekend in the pleasures of ale. The 17th annual Saddleworth Beer Festival starts today, and the three-day event,...
A new warden has been appointed by the National Trust at Marsden. Rob Henry took over in late August and is responsible for conservation work and wildlife management on the...
STARTING a new school can be scary but it is even more daunting if you have moved here from another country. To help, around 30 pupils at Breeze Hill School have been trained...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
Cycle-lovers are calling on transport bosses to honour their pledge to allow bikes on trams as it prepares to build the Metrolink extension to Oldham. The Greater Manchester...
A trio of First World War heroes, a founder of the Oldham Royal Infirmary and an early supporter of Oldham Athletic are united in death at Greenacres Cemetery. And later this...
YESTERDAY, the Chronicle’s resident historian MIKE PAVASOVIC took us on a chilling trip back in time to the 20th century executioners with links to Oldham. Here, he looks at...
