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AMBULANCE staff will strike on Monday in a dispute over pay. GMB, Unison and Unite members will down tools between 7am and 11am. Staff dealing with life-threatening calls will...
Date Published 20/11/2014
A driver got a shock trying to get out of the Wickes car park in Larch Street, Oldham . . . mistakenly going over a wall and on to the pavement below. Luckily the driver...
OLDHAM business owners have given a big thumbs up to the arrival of Marks and Spencer. The retail giant will open a food, homeware and clothing store at the new...
Date Published 19/11/2014
Michael Meacher, Oldham West and Royton MP said: “This is an historic occasion and I cannot welcome this announcement enough. “One of the leading retailers in the...
OLDHAM Council stalwart Howard Sykes was delighted to receive his MBE at Buckingham Palace. With 27 years of continuous office with the Lib-Dems, the father-of-three was...
A four-way battle in shaping for the right to play at centre-back alongside James Wilson at Bramall Lane on Saturday. Leading the way is Timothee Dieng, who did little wrong...
AN investigation into how eight councils across the country, including Oldham, tackle child sexual exploitation has found failures across the board. The Ofsted inspection,...
A MAN was dragged to the floor and attacked as he lay defenceless near a Failsworth pub. The victim, in his 50s, walked along Oldham Road near the Lamb Inn between 2 and 3am...
A KEY man in the spine of any rugby league team is the hooker and Oldham have three accomplished No. 9s following Gareth Owen's capture on a one-year contract. Oldham-born Owen...
POLICE have arrested a 26-year-old man after a spate of indecent exposures in Shaw. Officers received seven reports of a man exposing himself between October 18 and November...
HOCKEY: OLDHAM’S Nicola White has been dropped from the England squad which will head to the Women’s Champions Trophy tournament in Argentina at the end of...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards KEMPTON 4.10 Doc Hay 4.40 Chetan 5.10 Lyfka 5.40 Solidarity 6.10...
THE Oldham-born and educated chief of J K Rowling’s children’s charity has been named one of the world’s 30 most influential social workers — and is the...
Oldham mountain rescue team found an elderly man who went missing at the weekend. A police helicopter swept Saddleworth villages with a searchlight at the beginning of an...
Date Published 18/11/2014
TWO men fled from a semi-detached house in Werneth after a candle sparked a bedroom fire. A 44-year-old man was asleep when the flame set fire to a satellite TV box just after...
FOR the first time since he started playing in the Oldham and District Table Tennis League seven years ago, Darren Lindley lost two sets in a match. The Saddleworth...
HELP clean up your local area this Saturday by taking part in the Malton Garden community clean up. Meet at Z+Z newsagents, in Dean Street, from 11am, where councillors, police,...
MORE than a fifth of homes in Oldham are without work. The Office of National Statistics says there are 14,000 (21 per cent) of households in the borough where no-one has a...
L’Borough 1sts 20 Oldham 1sts 18 A LAST-MINUTE try robbed Oldham of their unbeaten record in North Lancashire Division One. In succumbing to second-placed Boro,...
THE winners of this year’s Chronicle Top Tots competition received their prizes at a presentation ceremony at Smyths Toys Superstore, Centre Retail Park, Oldham. Harris...
Estate agent Ryder and Dutton has won two prestigious national awards. The estate agency, which has 14 offices in the North West including Oldham, was voted Best Agency in the...
City’s roving reporter and former Latics star writes every week for Chron Sport I’M really looking forward to seeing England and Scotland go head-to-head again...
Martyn Meets... veteran Oldham MP Michael Meacher WHEN I mentioned I was travelling to Westminster to meet Michael Hugh Meacher, everyone was at pains to tell me what a good...
Rugby: THE NEW man at the helm of Saddleworth Rangers has a straightforward goal for the coming season — promotion. With Shane Tupaea stepping aside to focus on...
OLDHAM Coliseum beat its own record for ticket sales this year — by selling around £30,000 worth of tickets for NEXT year’s panto before this year’s show...
OLDHAMERS on the lowest incomes will get more support with the borough’s new council tax reduction scheme. Since April 2013, everyone of working age has been expected to...
Non-league football: OLDHAM Boro officials have made an impassioned appeal for help in the club’s survival fight. The club is struggling on and off the pitch and...
INCONSISTENT Mossley are losing their way after slipping to a fourth defeat. Following an encouraging October with five wins in a row, fortunes seem to be taking a...
Cricket: SENIOR Central Lancashire League officials have hit back over suggestions the CLL isn’t receptive to the new pyramid system proposed for Greater...
POLICE are urging Royton residents to be vigilant following reports of bogus workmen targeting elderly residents in the area. GRAB some festive gifts at the Trinity Methodist...
