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Sports Betting: MARKET forces rule, so if a football club is prepared to pay a player the best part of £350,000 a week, then the action can be justified on a...
Date Published 05/09/2014
OLDHAM East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams is demanding a full explanation of the abolition of local off-peak rail fares. The plan comes into operation from Monday...
THE Citizens’ Advice Bureau is dealing with £6 million of debt among Oldham residents - and almost 1,000 people have struggled to repay payday loans in the past 12...
AN upsetting crawl by a grieving woman through overgrown bushes to reach a family grave has led to a new campaign to clean up neglected Greenacres cemetery. The woman...
ATHLETIC will step up the hunt for a new focal point of attack when the emergency loan window reopens next week. The loss of Jonson Clarke-Harris to Rotherham on deadline day...
A team from Oldham College came to the rescue on TV after cowboy builders left an Oldham family high and dry. Plumbing apprentice Sam Royal (19), from Chadderton, fellow...
SCOTT Naylor has challenged his players to “grow up and act like men” when things don’t go to plan. Still smarting from the 40-14 defeat at Gateshead, the...
CRICKET: KYLE Hogg has been forced into retirement from all forms of cricket due to a severe back condition. The former junior at Greenfield Cricket Club, the all-rounder made...
DOMINIC Poleon has attracted comparisons with Victor Moses and, this week, Britt Assombalonga. Meeting the press in the board room at SportsDirect.com Park for the first time,...
THERE’S no telling what the play-offs might cough up, but in the league fortress Whitebank will be defended on Sunday for the 10th and final time this season. Nobody has...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
A MOTHER could face fines for not sending her autistic child to school in a stand-off over his placement. Emma Brooks (25), of Shaw, had applied for a place her four-year-old...
Date Published 04/09/2014
FORMER Oldham Rugby League Club player Luke Rhoden has died after plunging from a hotel balcony. Luke (25) was “running round like a madman” before falling or...
GEORGE Elokobi is fast-becoming a fans’ favourite for his all-action displays - and believes playing as a centre-back once again means he is back in his rightful...
TWO pioneering colleges offering an alternative to secondary school and sixth form have opened in Oldham this week. But around 100 pupils starting at one of them have had to be...
THREE Failsworth speed cameras have been destroyed in two nights by arsonists. Yesterday the Chronicle reported how a speed camera on Oldham Road was set alight on Tuesday...
SCOTT Naylor will have difficult choices when he picks his team to play Gloucester All Golds at Whitebank in Sunday’s final league game of the season (3pm). With...
FLEETWOOD Town is unlikely to change its tried and tested ways at SportsDirect.com Park on Saturday. Manager Graham Alexander has guided the newly-promoted club to second place...
DELAYS to building work have hit the new Collective Spirit Free School. The start of the new term was put back a day to yesterday, and pupils will do an eight-day programme of...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards HAYDOCK 2.00 Saarrem 2.30 Mistrusting (nb) 3.00 Baby Strange 3.35 Free...
DOMINIC Poleon took a pay cut to make his move to Athletic, it has been revealed — and the club believe they have a serious bargain on their hands. The 20-year-old...
Date Published 03/09/2014
SCOTT Naylor has promised changes in his Oldham team following the heavy loss at Gateshead. Some may be forced, but some will be deliberate changes “irrespective of...
An engineer has died after receiving a fatal electric shock while working at a Royton school. Father-of-two Jason Haslem (24) was working on a cooker at Fir Bank Primary School...
Athletic 1, Bradford 0 TEN months on from his infamous debut for Athletic, Jordan Bove hit the headlines for the right reasons by slamming in a late winning goal. The...
A woman who was violently assaulted by her father when she was a child has failed for a second time to convince a judge Oldham social workers were negligent. The 26 year old...
FOOTBALL: MOSSLEY have missed out on a potentially money-spinning FA Cup home tie against Tameside neighbours Curzon Ashton thanks to last night’s 2-1 replay defeat...
A FAMILY has warned Oldhamers not to be fooled by companies offering help to reclaim council tax overpayments. The warning followed the targeting of an 83-year-old woman who...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards HAYDOCK 2.05 Arabian Oasis 2.30 We’ll Shake Hands 3.00 American...
RUGBY UNION: Garstang 1st XV 13, Oldham RUFC 17 OLDHAM have reached the second round of the Lancashire Plate for the first time in years. Normally the fixture...
Date Published 02/09/2014
RUGBY: Askam 44, Waterhead 0 ASKAM moved out of the bottom two and plunged Waterhead deeper into the relegation mire with a comprehensive home victory. The hosts...
