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A SURPRISE birthday gift prevented Moorside snooker ace Michael Wild from taking part in an important semi-final. The local potting machine had reached the last four of the...
Date Published 03/04/2015
MARTIAL ARTS: IT was a day to remember for the Oldham-based Kenny Karate Club as they won medals galore at the Cumbrian Inter-Club Championships. Six clubs took part at the...
MOTORISTS are warned that Blackshaw Lane will be closed to through traffic with no access to or from Cornish Way from Monday, April 6, to April 19 as part of a gas mains...
A future fashionista from Oldham College is making her designer dreams a reality after winning a prestigious competition Dahraan Abdullah from Westwood scooped top prize at the...
A tiny disused toilet block could bring a flush of success to Saddleworth’s most isolated village. Denshaw lost its only shop five years ago when the sub-post office,...
THE Year 8 netball team from Newman College, Broadway, won a tournament at Boreatton Park, Shropshire, organised by the educational trip company PGL. CHADDERTON Wellbeing...
OLDHAM saw 1,383 businesses created in 2014 according to a study that shows only London grew faster than Greater Manchester. The research revealed that 2014 was a record year...
PAST masters at Hey With Zion School have received a national award. The Lees primary is one of the first schools in the country to receive a History Quality Mark silver award....
A COMMUNITY champion has been praised for offering a lifeline to a floundering group. Former councillor Barbara Beeley, chairman of Springhead Community Association, headed a...
A STUNNING gallery of images showing the progress of the flagship Old Town Hall development has been released by Oldham Council. Contractor Morgan Sindall is transforming the...
PEOPLE are being urged to support a social club which is in “financial ruin”. The steward and caretaker manager of Stanley Road Sports and Social Club, Chadderton,...
A nursery and two supermarkets were evacuated yesterday when gallons of propane leaked from a storage tank at a garage in Failsworth. The liquid petroleum gas spilled from a...
A DESPERATE dad is appealing for information after his six-year-old son was left with a broken leg in a hit-and-run incident in Chadderton. Yaseen Islam was hit by a car while...
A SHOCKED mum almost choked on a FALSE NAIL stuck inside her asthma inhaler. Alison Hall (48) used her inhaler at work after struggling to breathe - but when she breathed in, a...
One of the nine Britons detained in Turkey for allegedly trying to cross the border into Syria is the son of a Labour councillor. Shakil Ahmed, who represents the Kingsway ward...
STUDENTS had a rare chance to learn about the film industry first hand when they quizzed Oldham-born film director Steve Jamison. He discussed his career with pupils from the...
ASTHMATIC pupils from a Chadderton secondary school have been working with nurses to create an innovative app to help them control their health. A group of 11 to 16 year olds...
ATHLETIC chairman Simon Corney has issued a plea for fans to dig deep to help the club build success on the pitch. Revealing a £400,000 profit last season as a result of...
ROTATION is the name of the game for Athletic boss Dean Holden, who will mix and match in order to get the maximum impact from his squad across the Easter...
ATHLETIC can’t afford to let up for a minute between now and the end of the season. Of the six matches that follow today’s home game against Bristol City, every...
DEAN Saunders inherited such a testing scenario at Crawley that it would arguably be one of the achievements of the season within Sky Bet League One if the interim manager keeps...
Oldham RL club assistant coach Lee Spencer is keen for local rugby fans to support what he and head coach Scott Naylor are trying to achieve at the town’s professional...
MICHAEL Carrick, praised by Manchester United team-mate Wayne Rooney for his midweek display for England against Italy, will tomorrow aim to enhance his growing influence for the...
A RUN of three wins from their last three games has put Mossley on course for a place in the Evo-Stik League Division One North play-offs. The management team of Peter Band and...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards KEMPTON 1.40 Tawakkol 2.15 Speculative Bid 2.50 Solar Magic 3.25 Made...
Search starts now for the local heroes for 2015 IF there is one event that showcases Oldham and its people to the very best it is the Pride in Oldham Awards. For 14 years...
Date Published 02/04/2015
A driver leapt for his life from an out-of-control lorry in Saddleworth yesterday. Stuart Renshaw, from Werneth, was working at the back of the wagon in Grains Road, Delph,...
UKIP Councillor Warren Bates will be censured by Oldham Council after a report found him to have bullied and insulted a veteran soldier. Oldham Council’s standards...
A LOYALTY card rewarding shoppers for using local and independent shops to boost the local economy will be introduced by the council. As well has helping local businesses, it...
WORK will start on an “eyesore” footbridge on Union Street this summer. Councillor Howard Sykes asked if the £3.16m awarded to Oldham Council by the Department of Transport...
