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A COMMUNITY party in Stoneleigh Park, Derker, was a huge success despite vandals’ efforts to ruin the event. The Party in the Park was organised by St James’s and...
Date Published 29/07/2008
MORE than 80 per cent of the homes and businesses in the Derker compulsory purchase order area have been bought by agreement between the owners and Oldham Council. And the...
PEDESTRIANS are dicing with danger by ignoring footpath closure signs next to a King Street building site. The pavement next to the Kings Point office development has been...
A Baptist minister who took Oldham Council to task in a David and Goliath battle to protect public open space, has lost the first stage in his campaign. A planning inspector...
Councillors and managers are trying to work out a better deal for Oldham’s market traders if there are more strikes by council staff. Traders in Oldham, Shaw, Royton and...
A SPECIALIST brain injury centre in Chadderton has become the UK’s first to receive accreditation from an international organisation. Mimosa House supports people who...
Oldham Council Cabinet meeting reports by Marina BERRY A £500,000 boost for Oldham’s New Deal for Communities (NDC) masterplan, so more work can be carried out in...
Saddleworth Finance and General Purposes Committee reports by GEOFF WOOD Saddleworth is getting a positive response to suggestions for the idea of a South Pennine Council....
Two years ago, Oldham pioneered the country’s first withdrawal service for addicts of legally-prescribed benzodiazepine drugs. Forward thinkers at Oldham Primary Care Trust...
ONE of Oldham’s most popular walks will take place on August 1 and 2. The trek covers 40 miles and takes in most of the Oldham Way. Hikers can either walk the full...
It all started when I was filming in the middle of the countryside last February. The film was set in the middle of summer. We were sitting in the middle of winter....
WITH less than two weeks until the big kick-off in Coca-Cola League One, John Sheridan has admitted he doesn’t know his strongest team. But the Athletic boss is ready to...
ROUGHYEDS officials are confident that skipper Rob Roberts stands a good chance of being handed a favourable verdict when he goes in front of the RFL disciplinary panel a week...
HOW do you think Latics will fare in the new season? Who will be the key players? Has the club recruited wisely this summer? Is boss John Sheridan going to bring...
SEEL PARK and the windswept Pennine foothills is a far cry from the sunshine of Australia where new Mossley signing Darren Vernon had a seven-year playing stint. The...
IT was a case of Friends Reunited for Athletic who fielded a team of golden oldies in the over-35s Screwfix Masters Cup. And it was a chance to catch up on the whereabouts of...
THE darters of First Bus Oldham face a long trip to Hemsby on the Norfolk coast in the latest round of the National PSV competition. The four-man team of Geoff Brown, Bob...
STUART Carroll was the first of 21 Royton Road Runners to cross the line in the Middleton Harriers 10k road race. Carroll’s time of 38 minutes, 46 seconds was good...
OLDHAM’S Graeme Wilson reached the finals of the £3,000 Moorside Bowls Classic with a 21-9 defeat of Sheffield’s Matt Bower. But it was Bower who had the...
ENGLAND have been crowned Euro 2008 champions — in an under-13s six-a-side competition at Greenhill Primary School. The competition was organised by Oldham Greenhill FC...
REVOLUTIONS don’t work very well over here. The only time we managed it properly was in 1648, when the sudden departure of King Charles’s head from his body...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
ATHLETIC are set for a much-needed financial boost as they prepare to announce their new major sponsor. Officials hope to conclude a deal later this week which will give them...
Date Published 28/07/2008
AS the promotion race in National League Two reaches boiling point, Oldham chief executive Chris Hamilton is hopeful that his club can take advantage of Barrow’s dismal...
MANCHESTER United are expected to make Carlos Tevez a permanent signing before the end of the year to fend off interest from Real Madrid. The Barclays Premier League champions...
SIR Alex Ferguson has hit out at Sepp Blatter’s claim that Manchester United are treating Cristiano Ronaldo like a slave. The FIFA president caused outrage with his...
DERBY matches often fail to live up to their billing, but yesterday’s showdown between Crompton and Oldham at Glebe Street was a cracker in terms of entertainment and...
CROMPTON dispelled any notions of a Wood Cup hangover by producing a convincing 87-run victory at Ashton on Saturday. Beaten by Heywood in the cup semi-final the previous...
OLDHAM bowed out of the John Willie Lees Twenty20 Competition at the semi-final stage on Friday night. Taking first guard at the Pollards, their opponents Monton and Weaste...
WOODHOUSES are within touching distance of a dream appearance at Lord’s after a nail-biting quarter-final win over Shipley Hall in the National Village Cup. They emerged...
