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MARK Yates is among a select group set for further talks over the long-term manager’s role at Athletic. The former Cheltenham boss (45), said to have been recommended by...
Date Published 02/04/2015
AN all-star team from Rainy City Roller Girls flies out to America tomorrow to take on the best of the US. The Oldham-based roller derby squad will face a host of great sides...
ANY derby-day sledging aimed at Steve Roper by Rochdale fans will fall on deaf ears. "I won't hear anything. I'll be concentrating on my own game and on my team's...
DEAN Holden continues to adopt a positive attitude in the face of thoughts about what might have been. Right from first being installed as manager — initially as a...
POWERFUL, assured and homing in on the title, Bristol City feel as if they can’t be defeated at the moment. After a season that flirted with the possible disaster of a...
ADAM Neal expects Oldham to be “there or thereabouts” when RFL chiefs compile the League One honours board at the end of the season. Once a full-time pro with...
OLDHAM RL chairman Chris Hamilton hopes the new link with Huddersfield Giants will help the club realise its dream of promotion. The Whitebank chief is the last to need...
THE first of Oldham’s 11 home games in the new Kingstone Press League One is against Coventry Bears on April 12. Latest newcomers in the RFL’s expansion plan, the...
FOOTBALL: OLDHAM Boro and Chadderton suffered midweek wash-outs in Division One of the North-West Counties Squash League. Boro and Chadderton were due to host Daisy Hill and...
RUGBY: COACH Craig Farrimond has implored his Saddleworth Rangers side to focus from the first whistle in tomorrow’s Napier Windows Standard Cup final at Manor Park...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards LINGFIELD 1.40 Khatiba 2.10 Pretend (nb) 2.40 Tempus Temporis 3.15...
A woman who marked her 100th birthday last month has died. Ethel Cheetham celebrated the milestone birthday on March 5 with her family and friends at Ashbourne House in Lees....
NOBODY outside the club gives Athletic a prayer against Bristol City — and that is just the way Dean Holden likes it. The runaway Sky Bet League One leaders head to...
Date Published 01/04/2015
It’s all about Oldham! WHEN it comes to bringing you the Oldham news, sport and advertising - your Oldham Evening Chronicle delivers. For over 160 years the independent...
OLDHAM-born rugby league legend Kevin Sinfield “didn’t want any regrets about missed opportunities” after he decided to switch codes. Leeds’ influential captain will end his...
A QUICK-THINKING little boy has been hailed a hero after saving his mum following an epileptic fit. Brave Jack Griffin (3) sprung to the aid of mum Natalie when she had a...
A community association at the centre of the £19 million Diggle school row says a “chasm of mistrust” has grown between villagers and Oldham Council. Mark...
OLDHAM will kick-off the new League One season at Rochdale on Friday (3pm) with a fully-fit squad which will include several derby-day debutants. “We’re injury free, problem...
SINGLE girl Steph Roberts will be looking for love on the small screen again when she appears on tonight’s edition of Channel 4 show First Dates. The 34 year old from...
A FITTON Hill man is set for a pivotal career fight in the largest Muay Thai and kickboxing event the UK has ever seen. On May 23 Andrew Lofthouse will defend his Thai Fighter...
A MAN who fraudulently claimed over £30,000 in disability benefits was given a six-month suspended sentence by Oldham Magistrates yesterday. John Sidlow (60), of Grange...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards LUDLOW 2.30 Slowfoot 3.00 A Good Skin 3.30 Broxbourne (nap) 4.00...
A 30ft tree clipped a parked car as gales, torrential rain and hail blew it down as they battered the borough yesterday. Neighbours in Bleasdale Street, Royton, awoke yesterday...
OLDHAM tunester John Matthews is relishing the prospect of a “second coming” with The High. The former Radclyffe School pupil is 48, and after almost two decades in the musical...
A thief who stole flowers left where Oldham teenager Jack Essex was fatally hit by a lorry in Manchester has been given a community order and ordered to pay compensation. Riyad...
The Chron’s managing editor’s continuing saga of his battle with throat cancer WE have been both the visited and visitors in a memorable last seven days. Our...
YOUNG mathematicians from Oasis Academy Oldham put their numeracy know-how to the test when they took part in the Number Cruncherz programme with rugby union side Sale...
A CAPITAL idea has seen Oldham Academy North crowned the borough’s young business champions. The team from the school - called Initial - won the Young Enterprise (YE) area...
BLUE Coat pupils who have totted up 120 hours of conservation work between them celebrated with a barbecue - which they built themselves. The 16 volunteers worked on a range of...
Silcock’s fun fair is back at Daisy Nook with over 150 rides and attractions from Thursday until April 11. TAKE part in a sponsored walk with a treasure hunt over...
Date Published 31/03/2015
