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POLICE are encouraging older residents to sign up to the Nominated Neighbour scheme to keep themselves safe from bogus callers. Participants in the scheme will not talk or...
Date Published 27/08/2008
A Much-loved museum has made a leap into the 21st century with the help of a dedicated team of locals. Peter Fox, curator of Saddleworth Museum in Uppermill High Street,...
UP to 25 children with disabilities attended a sporting session especially for them at Blue Coat School. The youngsters participated in multi-sports including a parachute...
Oldham’s intrepid traveller takes two years to ride the Americas . . . AN OLDHAM explorer who travelled the length of the Americas on a tandem is back in the UK after...
IT is every woman’s dream to feature in a film or soap alongside her favourite star. And it is certainly the case for local TV extra and casting agent, Shenaz Khan....
BRITAIN’S record-shattering Olympians returned home from Beijing this week to a heroes’ welcome. Fans who were glued to their TV screens are suffering withdrawal...
New life as a business centre A MULTI-MILLION pound project to transform the Vale Mill at Hollinwood into a business centre is underway. Empty since January, 2006, when...
AN Oldham company established by two former Ferranti men is celebrating 20 years in business. TP Matrix Ltd., set up by Chris Morris and Andy Morgan — who is no longer...
THERE have been the odd one or two careers I’ve considered over the years. When I was nine I wanted to be the first woman astronaut. Quite badly, actually. Badly enough to...
STEFAN STAM could make his first start of the season when Athletic tackle Burnley in the Carling Cup tonight. Captain Sean Gregan is struggling to shake off a minor injury,...
Date Published 26/08/2008
ROUGHYEDS officials will discover tonight the extent of Ian Hodson’s injury. The forward came off midway through the first half of Sunday’s 40-16 win over...
Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp insists the Barclays Premier League title race is already a two–horse affair again – and believes that could apply to the Champions...
ATHLETIC will be confident of pulling off a surprise result in tonight’s Carling Cup second-round tie against Burnley. The two sides have made contrasting starts to the...
STRIKER Lee Hughes clocked up the eighth hat-trick of his league career against Cheltenham on Saturday. Hughes also achieved the feat for Athletic at Millwall last season in...
WHILE attacking players such as Chris Taylor and Lee Hughes have gained much of the spotlight during Athletic’s early-season run, the contribution of their defence should not be...
Unsworth pulled off a dramatic last-ball victory against Monton and Weaste in last night’s final of the John Willie Lees Twenty20 Competition. Hosts Monton scored a...
JONATHAN COPELAND has won many trophies as a junior bowler, but on Sunday he landed his biggest prize so far. The Blackpool Borough-sponsored Junior Waterloo attracted most of...
THE D&J Builders (North-West) Ltd Oldham Sunday League launches a new football season this week. A full programme of fixtures is planned for the weekend. In the meantime,...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
OLDHAM Council is looking at whether to reduce car-parking charges to attract more people into the town centre, the Chronicle can reveal. With motorists under pressure from...
THE price of fuel and the credit crunch have cut traffic jams by 12 per cent over the last year. Drivers and companies start to cut down their motoring spending, congestion is...
MANCHESTER City have slapped a life ban on Lance McCaffrey who ran on to the pitch during a pre-season friendly for a £50 bet. As if that weren’t bad enough, the...
A SEA of pink turned into a flood of cash for the the new breast cancer unit at the Royal Oldham Hospital after supporters staged a fund-raising ‘pink ball’. The...
PARKING problems in a Hollinwood street could become a life and death situation, residents fear. They claim an ambulance struggled for five minutes to squeeze past cars in...
CATHOLICS from across Oldham gathered at St Patrick’s Church as a new window commemorating the life of Pope John Paul II received a special blessing. The borough’s...
A 10-year-old Saddleworth schooboy’s plea to save the planet has been backed by a top Government minister. Ayrton Taylor had a 30-minute talk with Phil Woolas, Minister...
LIB-Dems in Oldham have backed calls for UK energy independence. They’ve thrown their weight behind their leader Nick Clegg’s demands for Britain to become...
A BUMPER £1 million could be spent on improving short breaks for children with disabilities in Oldham. Cash could be secured from Government funds for the next two years...
The vicar of Saddleworth Parish Church will quit St Chad’s to become rector of a union of four parishes in Dunmanway, County Cork. The Rev Wilhelmina Nesbitt’s...
PIONEERING work to transform accommodation for older people across the borough has earned a major construction firm a Pride in Oldham nomination. Bullock Construction joined...
