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ATHLETIC have joined the chorus slamming the Football Association’s England Commission plan to create a new competition featuring Premier League B teams. FA chairman...
Date Published 09/05/2014
SWIMMING JESSICA Lloyd is looking forward to an injury and illness-free second half to 2014 — hopefully including a medal-winning effort at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow...
A CONTROVERSIAL Oldham election candidate has been barred from representing UKIP after calling for Islam to be banned and mosques to be demolished. UKIP has dropped Jackie...
SWIMMING: A HECTIC two and a half months will bring Jessica Fullalove her Commonwealth Games dream. Royton-based Fullalove (17) figured she had missed out on selection for...
TENS of thousands of pounds were stolen from a NatWest branch in Westwood yesterday evening. Thieves removed shutters at the back of the Middleton Road bank and threatened...
SIX games into his first rugby league coaching job, Neil Roden says the move from player to boss has been an eye opener. Aged 34 and in charge of the under-20s squad at...
Chronicle Racing Correspondent Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s cards ASCOT 2.05 Rhombus 2.40 Area Fifty One (nb) 3.15 Ribbons (nap) 3.50...
MULTI-MILLION pound redevelopment plans for Royton remain on track despite one of the precinct’s landowners going into administration. Brookwide Ltd, which owns several...
Date Published 08/05/2014
PRINCIPAL Colette Burgess is leaving Oldham Academy North — to move three miles up the road to the top job at Waterhead Academy. Ms Burgess will start at Waterhead in...
Oldham Police are limbering up to face Manchester United legend Paul Scholes at football. Scholes will play for Chadderton Park FC to raise money for The Christie at the Royal...
CHARLIE MacDonald regrets that he wasn’t able to find the sort of consistent form at Athletic that would have made him a crowd-pleaser. The energetic forward (33) packed...
BACK-TO-FORM Lewis Palfrey has been named Kingstone Press Championship One player of the week. In the eight-try drubbing of Tony Benson's Oxford he rediscovered the spark that...
THE elections watchdog is to introduce new rules about party slogans after a review of its decision to allow an extremist group to adopt a slogan featuring murdered Middleton...
LOUIS van Gaal has admitted that he would love to be manager of Manchester United. But the Holland coach insists no deal has yet been done to take him to Old Trafford. It...
FREDERICK Knott’s clever murder thriller was famously filmed by Hitchcock in the Fifties, and the neat “will he get away with it” story has been ripe for...
MANCHESTER City are within touching distance of reclaiming the Barclays Premier League trophy after a convincing 4–0 win over Aston Villa. Tension filled the air through...
SWIMMING: OLDHAM pair Jess Lloyd and Jess Fullalove have earned call-ups to Team England’s Commonwealth Games squad. Diggle-based Lloyd (19) and Royton’s...
Chronicle Racing Correspondent Keith McHugh’s tips for tomorrow’s cards CHESTER 1.45 Big Johnny D (nb) 2.15 Century 2.45 Hillstar 3.15 Fine Cut...
LATICS have shown the red card to the Oldham Sunday League’s showpiece Challenge Cup final at Boundary Park tomorrow night. The game — between Limeside King George...
Date Published 07/05/2014
AN addiction to hard drugs over 25 years cost an Oldham man his home, his wife and his young son, a court heard yesterday. Mohammed Afzal’s habit has also now cost him...
CONCERNED Oldham mental-health staff have warned of the risks to patients from “deep cuts” in their services. A letter sent to the Chronicle, local MPs and Oldham...
AN 18-year-old girl was robbed and sexually assault as she walked home. The teenager was walking in London Road, Derker in the early hours of Monday after a night out, a man...
Rock of Ages, Palace, Manchester, to Saturday THIS stage show of the movie of the book tries very hard to make you like it. There is vibrant lighting, a bit of video, a bit...
Fame The Musical, The Lowry. DOING the splits while standing is pretty impressive. And it was with this early dance move and his equally impressive chiselled physique that...
JAMES Wesolowski cleaned up at last night’s Athletic awards dinner by taking FIVE individual titles. The midfield man - whose future at Boundary Park remains in the...
OLDHAM RL Club have picked a young player from the under-20s side to sign as a professional. Forward Richard Joy (20) will follow a path taken previously by half a dozen of...
MANCHESTER City will aim to take a giant stride towards regaining the Barclays Premier League trophy as they play host to Aston Villa tonight. Manuel Pellegrini’s men...
PHIL Jones’ World Cup dreams may well have been wrecked by a shoulder injury suffered in Manchester United’s 3–1 win over Hull. Jones clattered into Hull...
The CIty kit boss and former Latics ace writes every week for Chron Sport SO there’s yet another twist in this incredible race for the Premier League title. The...
SPORTS BETTING: ATHLETIC kept their place in Sky Bet League One with a degree of comfort and will now sit back to see which of four teams will join them next season....
