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AFTER five successive grand final defeats, Oldham’s rugby team bids to have its place in the sun at Headingley on Sunday. If there is any justice, this will finally be...
Date Published 03/10/2014
COACH Scott Naylor insists all the pressure is on Hunslet in Sunday’s televised Kingstone Press Championship One Grand Final at Headingley. Fans may see it differently,...
ATHLETIC will have to work carefully to bring in new players to side-step another transfer embargo. Manager Lee Johnson is tracking a striker and the hope is a deal can be...
SCOTT Naylor is looking at his fresh-faced forwards to come of age on the big stage and give him a long- overdue Grand Final triumph. Man for man, his Oldham pack is years...
LEE Johnson says only an unexpected red card poses enough of a threat to throw his plans completely off course at Peterborough. Athletic head to London Road tomorrow with a...
Roughyeds’ captain writes for Chron Sport I’m feeling a lot calmer than I did this time last year, with the Grand Final just a couple of days away. Before that...
The Latics ’keeper writes every week for Chron Sport THE TALK of manager Lee Johnson being called up by Gibraltar caused plenty of attention last week. It was one of...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards REDCAR 2.00 Awjab 2.30 Innsbruck 3.05 Limato 3.45 Muteela 4.20...
A crackdown revealed 85 per cent of passengers on one Oldham tram hadn’t paid the fare. A staggering 73 fare dodgers - mainly students and children - were fined at the...
OLDHAM Council is planning to axe up to 118 jobs to help save £35 million in the next financial year. The proposed job cuts, which would happen in 2015-16, were announced...
OLDHAM Council has apologised for failing a four-year-old autistic boy and his family. Stephen Jackson turned to the Chronicle in desperation feelng “let down and...
Rugby stars help out at fashion show fundraiser OLDHAM Rugby League Club stars Nathan Mason and David Cookson took time off from the Roughyeds’ promotion push to help the...
Lotty’s War, Opera House, Manchester, to Saturday BILLED as a “passionate wartime thriller”, Lotty’s War is Guernsey native Giuliano Crispini’s attempt to say something about...
AN optician spotted a potentially life-threatening condition during a routine eye test. And now Nicola Delves (24) has thanked practitioner Komrul Hassan of Specsavers in...
Date Published 02/10/2014
MOURNERS applauded as Harry Burns’s funeral cortege passed by the new offices of First Choice Homes yesterday. Colleagues gathered in Union Street, in front of the...
ATHLETIC chairman Simon Corney has assured supporters the club’s new North Stand will be completed for the start of next season. The developers are believed to have had a...
OLDHAM'S Grand Final line-up won't necessarily be the one that got them to the big end-of-season shindig at Headingley. The 17 who beat Hunslet 25-24 then raised the play-off...
SAFETY upgrades at an accident blackspot where a 12-year-old schoolgirl was killed just days before Christmas are due to be completed today. Pedestrian-controlled traffic...
MANCHESTER City supporters have hit back at criticism from former United players Paul Scholes and Rio Ferdinand over the lack of atmosphere at the Etihad Stadium. The...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards ASCOT 2.00 Smarty Socks (nap) 2.30 Chinese Jade 3.05 Ventura...
AN Oldham taxi driver who took advantage of a drunken underage girl has been jailed for four years. Asif Ali’s young victim, who had been given alcohol and cigarettes,...
Date Published 01/10/2014
Concerns over Oldham Council’s proposals for the relocation of Shaw Market have been voiced by Lib-Dem leader Councillor Howard Sykes. The authority has unveiled plans to...
A FORMER paratrooper who murdered two colleagues in Iraq had been described as “a bit dodgy” by one of his victims the night he killed him. Paul McGuigan (37) and...
OLDHAM RL Club will pick up £20,000 if they smash their Grand Final hoodoo and beat Hunslet Hawks for the second time in three weeks at Headingley Carnegie on...
ATHLETIC manager Lee Johnson has made tentative enquiries over a couple of centre-backs as he bids to stave off a potential defensive crisis. George Elokobi will definitely...
MANCHESTER City manager Manuel Pellegrini promised his team would fight on after again stuttering on the Champions League stage. City's unconvincing 1–1 draw with Roma at...
United midfielder Ander Herrera broke a rib in the weekend game against West Ham. The 25–year–old Spaniard, who signed in the summer, has been an important member...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards KEMPTON 5.45 Southern Cross 6.15 Dark Wave 6.45 Life And Times 7.15...
A GREAT-GRANDMOTHER has stubbed out her 45-year smoking habit with the help of specialist NHS advisers. And now Audrey Shearing (68) is encouraging others to follow suit by...
Date Published 30/09/2014
LACROSSE: OLDHAM Owls were beaten 12-4 by Cheadle in a lacrosse match littered with indiscipline. The Owls had put in plenty of practice and this showed in the...
