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THE Saddleworth Male Voice Choir will present their annual Concert of Remembrance at the Civic Hall, Uppermill, tomorrow at 7.30pm. Tickets, priced £10, are available...
Date Published 07/11/2014
A hundred MPs have now showed support for a move to fit CCTV cameras in slaughterhouses. Oldham MPs Michael Meacher and David Heyes have signed the Early Day Motion tabled by...
GREATER Manchester firefighters answered 375 calls and dealt with 158 incidents between 6 and 11pm yesterday, November 5. The busiest hour for staff at the North-West Fire...
RUGBY: OLDHAM St Anne’s ARLFC play host to the Oldham Youth and Junior Rugby League finals on November 16. And the Higginshaw Road club is represented in each of...
RUGBY: HOLLINWOOD are in need of reinforcement after slipping to a 42-34 defeat at Brighouse Rangers in Division Five of the Pennine League. The Fields New Road outfit...
PART two of Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s pick of the 20 National Hunt horses to follow this season. There are horses from many of the country’s...
NETBALL: A DOMINANT third quarter show was key to Oldham Netball Club’s 46-36 win against Leyland in the North-West Premier League. Suzy Chapman’s...
ATHLETIC full-back Connor Brown needed to go out on loan to get more games, says manager Lee Johnson. Having slipped behind Brian Wilson and Genseric Kusunga in the pecking...
Rugby Union: WITH the autumn internationals about to get under way, World Cup winner Lewis Moody insists it’s time Oldham-born George Ford showed what he can do in...
A JUMBLE sale takes place tonight at Heyside Reformed Church, Hebron Street from 7. Admission is 20p and all proceeds go to the church. SATURDAY night is bonfire night at...
A VETERAN hotelier remains hopeful despite seeing plans for an 18-bedroom annex rejected. Anthony Baker (78), has developed the four-star Saddleworth Hotel on the main A62...
SIX North Chadderton School pupils honoured the fallen on a trip to the spectacular “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red” poppy display at the Tower of London. The...
AN Oldham man is celebrating 25 years in business. Warren Etchells (46) from Chadderton, owns QED Business Services which evolved from QED, the courier service he established in...
A FAILSWORTH company is pioneering a new flood barrier that could save millions of pounds for governments and communities. Michael Mulvihill has invented the system and is...
DE-CLUTTER in time for Christmas or bag a festive bargain when the Crossley Centre in Denton Lane, holds a table top sale from 10am to 1pm on November 7. The community centre...
GOLF: STEVE Asquith and Sean Mooney teamed up for a terrific win in Saddleworth’s Captain’s Charity Day competition. The successful pair recorded 45 points...
THE use of electric vehicle charging points in Oldham has picked up in the last six months. Introduced in September 2013, none of the nine Oldham public points was used in the...
THREE Saddleworth artisans are doing their bit to resurrect Uppermill’s craft quarter. Viki Taylor, Helen Robinson and Joanne Ward are launching a venture just yards from...
OLDHAM East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams has officially opened two remodelled post offices. Both the Hardy Street and Shaw branches have been upgraded to offer improved...
HOCKEY: BEATEN by bottom-of-the-table Wilmslow seven days earlier, Oldham firsts quickly got the result out of their system with a terrific 4-0 win at Prescot. The...
A SPECIALIST Oldham service is helping to ease fears over hereditary cancer risks. The Cancer Family History Service, run by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, helps people...
NETBALL: OLDHAM Netball Club never gave Roses rivals Leeds Athletic a moment’s peace as they won 61-39 in the National Premier League. The reigning...
SNOOKER: OLDHAM Snooker Academy starlet Ryan Davies underlined his huge potential with victory in the EASB’s Regional Junior Tour competition in Liverpool. There...
SPORTS BETTING: YOU really do have to feel for England’s rugby league team. Leading 12-4 at half-time in their Four Nations match against old rivals Australia on...
OLDHAM’S Liberal Democrat leader has given a guarded welcome to Greater Manchester’s devolution deal. Councillor Howard Sykes said: “Much of what has been...
OLDHAM West and Royton MP Michael Meacher has launched a scathing attack on Home Secretary Theresa May’s management of the inquiry into historic child sex abuse. The...
OLDHAM East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams has publicly lambasted a top Tory Minister for causing unnecessary suffering to thousands of benefits claimants. The Labour MP...
THE FRIDAY THING: IT is a good few years since the campaign for an elected mayor in Oldham was confined to the dustbin. No recycling there, we thought, but were we wrong? Now...
JONATHAN Forte says claiming the Sky Bet League One player of the month prize for October wasn’t down simply to his own prowess. Athletic’s 11-goal top scorer in...
A 17-YEAR-OLD Oldham entrepreneur who received a start-up grant from Oldham Enterprise Fund is at the centre of a storm over claims he copied a competitor’s website. Hassan...
