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BUDDING entrepreneurs at Greenacres Primary School put their business skills to good use and raised more than £300 for Dr Kershaw’s Hospice. Year 6 pupils took up the Business...
Date Published 18/07/2008
DELPH are back in the mix for a Drakes Huddersfield League treble. Already through to the final of the Sykes Cup, they visit Broad Oak tonight (6.30pm) in the last four of the...
A COLOURFUL tribute has been made to outstanding Hathershaw School pupil Roshni Panchani who died in January. The 17-year-old was a talented scientist, artist, sportswoman and...
PUPILS at Hathershaw School were inspired to raise nearly £1,000 for charity by 11-year-old Nicole Hankes. Nicole is being treated for leukaemia and staff and pupils took part in...
CRANBERRY AC’s trip to Fleets Dam was a profitable one for Tony Lees as his 12lb of roach and skimmers, taken on the tip with maggot and caster on the hook, netted him first...
FESTIVAL fever comes to Oldham and Saddleworth this month thanks to a new week-long music event. The 7 Songs Festival will run from July 26 to August 3 and will see seven...
GARY ELLIS and Graeme Wilson, generally recognised as the top two players in crown green bowls, clash in the last 16 of the Joe Gateley Memorial Classic at Middleton Conservative...
BURIAL services are to improve at Greenacres Cemetery thanks to a £40,000 improvement plan. The council money will be used to extend a section of the cemetery for Muslim burials...
MOSTON station, just over the Chadderton boundary, and the railway line running through it, has been named as one of the worst rail crime spots in Britain. The station, in...
OLDHAM Roughyeds could be world record holders — for a game of “heads, shoulders knees and toes.” Despite getting the biggest crowd in National League 2 this year in last night’s...
JOHN SHERIDAN has described transfer target Kevin Maher as the kind of midfielder who could have a big impact on Athletic. As the Chronicle revealed yesterday, Sheridan is among...
Date Published 17/07/2008
OLDHAM Roughyeds officials are urging the town to get behind the team for tonight’s promotion encounter with Doncaster. The important National League Two clash at Boundary Park...
A LEADING teaching union has threatened to join council staff on future walkouts. UNISON warned that more strikes could be on the way if the Government refuses to heed its demands...
LIB-DEM Leader Howard Sykes has again promised that council tax rises will be at — or below — inflation for the next two years. He made the pledge last night in his mini-budget,...
AN OLDHAM man is among a trio convicted for defrauding a cable TV firm. Wayne Jackson (44), of Lavender Road, Holts, helped illegally modify digital TV set-top boxes enabling...
Drivers will soon be using the hard shoulder of the M60 motorway for more than just breaking down. Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly revealed that the emergency lane of the...
ATHLETIC made a satisfactory start to their pre-season programme with a comfortable win against Welsh Premier League side Rhyl. Manager John Sheridan used 21 players, including...
PHOTOGRAPHS of cars parked on New Barn Playing Fields in Shaw have been sent to Oldham Council. It is the latest twist in a row that blew up when the council billed Chaddy End...
COUNCILLORS were united in the battle to save threatened post offices throughout the borough. And they want to explore ways of supporting the existing network in partnership with...
MONEY will be available for Oldham Council if it is decided more housing is needed in the borough. But to benefit, the council would have to identify plans for growth, according...
MATTY BROOKS has every confidence that Oldham will have sufficient firepower to out-gun Doncaster at Boundary Park tonight (7.30pm kick off). A host of players have been carrying...
A BULGING trophy cabinet has earned Heyside Angels a Pride in Oldham nomination. The ladies football club has had a phenomenal season, lifting an amazing 14 out of 15 trophies in...
IT is hard work being a parent — but how about bringing up more than 40 children? That is what super foster carers Yvonne and Barry Cossins have done over the years. Now, one of...
MYSTERY surrounds the death of a father-of-two found dying in the road after leaving an associate’s car. Gary Bradshaw (27), from Beechwood Road, Fitton Hill, died from head...
THE semi-final line-up for this year’s John Willie Lees Wood Cup was finalised this week – but it took 10 days to get there. Heywood will host Crompton on Sunday, while Monton and...
SCHOOL business managers Michael Unsworth and Sandra Taylor are among the first in the world to gain a new degree. Michael (36), from Kingfisher School, Chadderton, and Sandra...
A local historian has become the first heritage champion for Oldham. Councillor Mike Buckley, chairman of Saddleworth Historical Society, is Oldham’s new historic environment...
THE demolition of Failsworth Lower School will continue as planned despite hitting a brick wall when workers discovered the building was riddled with asbestos. The structure, in...
YOUTH, sport and dance came together at the Oldham Coliseum as the Festival of Diversity heads to the end of its first week. The Fairbottom Street stage was packed for the Oldham...
BUILDING sites are not playgrounds and could be death-traps, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning Oldham families. As the long summer school holiday approaches the HSE...
