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SHAW horse-rider Liane Robinson may have missed out on a top prize at the British TREC Championships, but she returned this week ready to tackle her next challenge. The...
Date Published 22/08/2008
YOUNGSTERS had a muddy good time as they got stuck into the rugger at a summer camp. Oldham Sports Development held the last of its rugby coaching sessions this week at...
THE Dog and Partridge is staging a huge fundraising event filled with barbecues, stalls and local bands on Sunday. Oldham’s own Andy Lee and Graham Wheeler will be the...
Two local rugby league players are getting closer to a dream trip to Australia thanks to supporters at the Three Crowns pub at Scouthead. Danny Adams and Danny Atherton play...
JOHN SHERIDAN believes Athletic are on the crest of a wave ahead of tomorrow’s clash with Cheltenham at Boundary Park. Sheridan’s men have made a 100-per-cent...
WITH just one more game to go before the play-offs kick in, Roughyeds coach Steve Deakin is urging supporters to provide huge vocal backing when Workington Town visit Boundary...
ATHLETIC will be out to achieve their best start to a league season for 18 years when they face Cheltenham Town tomorrow. No Boundary Park side since 1990 has launched...
WORKINGTON Town will be anything but easy beats when they arrive at Boundary Park this weekend. That is the message being put out by Roughyeds coach Steve Deakin, ahead of a...
CHADDERTON FC are preparing for their largest crowd of the season when AFC Liverpool visit Broadway for a Vodkat North-West Counties League division one fixture tomorrow. Their...
WITH five games to go in premiership one of the Drakes Huddersfield League, Delph still harbour hopes of title glory. An emphatic 10-wicket defeat of Shepley kept them in with...
IF at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That’s the motto for Woodhouses and Woodhouse Grange as they attempt to make it third time lucky in the semi-finals...
Manchester City face West Ham on Sunday and could have Belgian defender Vincent Kompany in their ranks for the clash at Eastlands. Hamburg yesterday claimed to have accepted a...
WATERHEAD are looking to plug the gaps as their new National Conference League division two season gets underway. A home match against Leeds outfit Milford Marlins (2.30pm)...
IT’S a new season, new strip and new manager for one of Oldham’s newest women’s football teams - and now they are on the hunt for new...
ALAN HODSON won the Failsworth Bowling League’s President’s Handicap, played at Royton Cricket. Hodson, recent winner of the prestigious Oldham Evening Chronicle...
CRICKET Tomorrow — Lake Garage CLL (start 1.15pm): Clifton v Monton & Weaste; Heywood v Oldham; Milnrow v Crompton; Rochdale v Ashton; Royton v Norden; Unsworth v...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards BEVERLEY 1.50 Moneycantbuymelove 2.20 By Command 2.50 Mr Toshiwonka 3.20 Peace...
THREE Oldham reserves players have picked up suspensions at a Rugby Football League hearing following a recent brawl at Barrow. Mohammed Tamghart, who is highly unlikely to...
Date Published 21/08/2008
MARK ALLOTT, who swept the board in Athletic’s player-of-the year awards at the end of last season, is in line for more recognition. The midfield man has been nominated in the...
WITH half-a-dozen games to go, things are hotting up at the top of the Lake Garage CLL. And two of our teams, Oldham and Crompton, are firmly in the mix for top honours....
GCSE 2008 BLUE Coat School pupil Sarah Lewis was celebrating this morning after learning she had chalked up a magnificent 12 A* — one for every subject she studied....
GCSE 2008 High-flying pupil Laxmi Vekria (16) from Oldham gained 10 GCSEs including six As and three Bs, at St Augustine’s RC School, Werneth. Laxmi said: “I...
Armstrongs Office Furniture Saddleworth and District Cricket League by Kevin Richardson. HEYSIDE captain Mark Barnes has labelled the security measures at this year’s...
A Royal Mail union will ballot staff for industrial action unless talks with management over closing sorting offices, including Oldham, are successful. The Communication...
A MAN who suffered serious head injuries after being assaulted in a Shaw pub has made a rapid recovery. The 35-year-old was initially placed in intensive care after the attack...
A NEW National Conference League season gets underway this Saturday afternoon, with two of our local sides in action. Oldham St Anne’s, who now have Chris Deakin back on...
POLICE are hunting two armed robbers who assaulted a shopkeeper in Oldham. The masked raiders armed with a shotgun and a knife burst into Papas off-licence on Burnley Lane,...
GCSE 2008 Britain’s teenagers notched up record GCSE results today, with one in five exams awarded top grades. Overall 20.7 per cent of grades were at A+ or A, an...
GCSE 2008 CHILDREN from the poorest homes in Oldham are less likely to achieve good results in their GCSEs compared with those from deprived backgrounds in London, new...
SPRINGHEAD and Royton Town made impressive starts to the new Bridgewater Office Supplies Manchester League campaign. Town, who are hoping to go two places better after...
