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THE new principal of Hathershaw College is no stranger to the school — he has worked there for 17 years. Senior vice-principal Dave McEntee will take over from Carol...
Date Published 06/06/2014
YOUNG people in care are being given a helping hand from former Oldham businessman Norman Stoller. The former Seton company chairman’s foundation has given £50,000...
Sport in Oldham has been given a £559,000 boost - to breathe new life into Crossley playing fields, Chadderton. The money will improve drainage on the five pitches and...
BANDS competing at this year’s Saddleworth Whit Friday Brass Band contests could be marching to a martial beat. The Army will be making its debut at the contests, dubbed...
JAMES Wesolowski could be on his way to Shrewsbury Town. Athletic have accepted defeat in trying to persuade the runaway player of the year to re-sign and the Shrews —...
The RFL has charged Oldham’s Danny Langtree and London Skolars’ player Tely Pelo with punching offences following last Sunday’s fiery game at Whitebank. Six...
There is good news and bad news for Oldham RL as Roughyeds head to Hertfordshire for Sunday’s clash with Hemel Stags. Sam Gee (collar bone), Dale Bloomfield (thumb) and...
CRICKET: TWENTY20 action returns to Lake Garage CLL tonight (6.15pm). Leading the way is a clash between Royton and Werneth at the Paddock. Royton can virtually book their...
BOWLS: THIS year’s Green Final Bowling Handicap gets underway tonight with action at four venues and plenty of players with success in the competition on show. Leading...
KEITH McHUGH’s Derby preview
Chronicle Racing Correspondent Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s cards
WORRIED employees of languages company Capita fear they will lose their jobs if proposals to relocate the business to Poland go ahead. The language and translation services...
POLICE have released details of suspects in an armed raid on a Failsworth travel agent. The Co-operative Travel store off Oldham Road, was raided late on Saturday afternoon...
A OLDHAM magistrate told a pair of takeaway owners he wished he could impose a harsher punishment when they appeared on 10 counts of breaching food hygiene regulations Three...
Date Published 05/06/2014
JOSEPH Mills has become a full Athletic player in the left-back role vacated by Jonathan Grounds. The attack-minded defender agreed to sign for the club on a two-year deal from...
AN elderly Lees man was left in agony on the floor of his home for two hours before ambulancemen arrived to help him. Dementia sufferer Clifford Wray (88) fell in the lounge of...
DAMAGED thumb or not, Dale Bloomfield will be desperate to play at Hemel Stags on Sunday to maintain his scoring run on Oldham’s left wing. Like Mo Agoro on the right...
A HOSPITAL nurse was so incompetent her boss had to supervise her every move, a London hearing has been told. Hanadi Hamza gave a baby a double dose of medication and left...
RUGBY UNION: OLDHAMER Kyle Eastmond is in the England line-up to face New Zealand in the first Test at Eden Park on Saturday. The Bath centre, who hails from St...
Chronicle Racing Correspondent Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s cards EPSOM 1.35 Mango Diva 2.10 Soviet Rock 2.45 Gregorian 3.20 Abseil...
OLDHAM College student Leon Harrop is appearing in a new BBC primetime drama starring Philip Glenister. The 22 year old, from Royton, appers in the three-part series “From...
A FLY-TIPPING mum has been hit with a £530 bill after she was found guilty of dumping rubbish in Holts Lane. Margaret Ward (26), of Lavender Road, Holts, pleaded not...
AVENUE Q, Oldham Coliseum (to Saturday) AND they call it puppet love: keen-eyed readers should realise this isn’t a crafty repeat of my review of this same comedy musical...
A 35-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with a string of robberies - including two terrifying armed raids on Saddleworth sub post offices. Yan Tingle (35), of Denton is accused of...
Date Published 04/06/2014
THE body of a young man laid undiscovered in his Littlemoor flat for almost two weeks. Littlemoor Lane residents called police after a bad smell came from the flat. The man...
A nurse made a string of errors including leaving a premature baby lying the wrong way across an incubator, a tribunal has been told. A Nursing and Midwifery Council panel...
FOOTBALL-MAD Christopher Ferrand has turned an Oldham street into a sea of red and white for the World Cup. A total of 30 smart homes are covered in bunting and fluttering rows...
A 35-YEAR-OLD man appeared at Oldham Magistrates’ Court yesterday accused of sexually assaulting girls as young as eight. Ibrahim Kara pleaded not guilty to eight counts of...
A 67-YEAR-OLD man died after falling ill while driving and crashing his car into a wall near Greenfield. The man was towing a caravan in his Vauxhall Insignia along the A635...
A HATHERSHAW shopkeeper has been prosecuted for possessing counterfeit and smuggled tobacco. Oldham Trading Standards officers raided Hussain Superstore in Ashton Road in...
