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Nursery store owner Victoria Parrott has hit back at organisers of Manchester’s Baby and Toddler Show for boasting the show was better than visiting a local baby store The...
Date Published 11/04/2014
NETBALL: MANCHESTER Thunder won a home semi-final play-off in the Zeo Superleague with a hard-fought 66-53 victory over Team Northumbria. Thunder, who beat Celtic Dragons...
SPORTS BETTING: GOLF’S first major of the season is the best of the four. Yes, the Open Championship has its tradition, but for sheer spectacle nothing compares with...
A FORMER Oldham councillor has been selected as a parliamentary candidate for the next general election. Graeme Currie was a Labour councillor for Failsworth East between 1994...
THREE men pretended to be police to force their way into a woman’s house. Detectives investigating the incident in Mossley are appealing for help to trace the trio, who...
Work on Oldham Athletic’s new North Stand has had the once-over from council leader Jim McMahon. The stand’s steel framework is now in place on the former Broadway...
OLDHAM Council has responded to claims that the junction of Waterloo Street and Rhodes Bank is an accident blackspot. Figures have shown that only five minor incidents have...
RUGBY: DESPITE suffering a first defeat of the season, Oldham St Anne’s continues to lead the way in the Rugby Oldham Amateur Club Challenge. Mick Fogerty’s...
PLAYHOUSE 2, Shaw, is holding a children’s theatre festival this month. Youth theatre day will be on Tuesday, April 15, early years on Wednesday, April 16, and fairytale...
SHOPS and businesses in Oldham town centre can get help and support from a new advice centre. The new Town Centre Team Shop in Albion Street will have staff on hand to provide...
THE Mayor of Oldham hailed the restoration of historic military drums and bugles at a ceremony yesterday. Councillor John Hudson paid tribute to the Oldham branch of the 41/47...
A PIONEER of the Catholic Church in Saddleworth has died only days before her 100th birthday. Ethel Lancashire, from Dobcross - affectionately known as “Grandma...
HAVE your blood pressure checked for free at a health event, running alongside a stroke awareness exhibition, organised by the Rotary Club of Saddleworth community committee...
THE number of elderly people receiving care has fallen by more than 250,000 in four years, Oldham MP Michael Meacher has uncovered. And the Oldham West and Royton MP fears the...
VULNERABLE people could be left without vital support in the welfare shake-up, fears Oldham MP Debbie Abrahams. The Oldham East and Saddleworth MP is a member of the Work and...
OLDHAM Council has awarded the first grant from a £1 million investment fund designed to attract traders to the town centre’s new independent quarter. A shop...
OLDHAM is a step closer to becoming a “cooperative” borough thanks to an offer from the council and Oldham Housing Investment Partnership. The Cooperative Housing...
OLDHAM’S St Mary’s housing development has scooped another prestigious award. The Oldham Council-backed project to regenerate St Mary’s was recognised as the...
THE 2014 Oldham Carnival is months away - but organisers are already planning next year’s celebrations and are hoping to return to a traditional street parade....
Angling: TREVOR Wilson took top spot in the first of this year’s Socials AC matches on Tyle Lodge. His maggot fished up in the water produced a cracking net of carp,...
FOOTBALL: OLDHAM Hulmeians bounced back from weekend disappointment in style on Wednesday as they beat Roach Dynamos 3-0 in Division One of the Lancashire Amateur League. The...
A SPIRITED performance from Carrion Crow earned them a share of the spoils against promotion-chasing Oldham GPO in David Giblin Division One of the Midas Plumbing and Heating...
FOOTBALL: SPRINGHEAD made it back-to-back Manchester League Premier Division wins with an exhilarating attacking home display as they thumped Rochdale Sacred Heart 6-3. The...
Swimming: TALENTED teenage pair Jessica Lloyd and Jessica Fullalove will both be in action at the British Gas British Swimming Championships in Glasgow this weekend. There...
ENTRIES are being accepted for the 2014 Green Final Bowls Handicap, the most prestigious event on the local calendar. Heats will be held at Moorside, Royton, Crompton and...
RUGBY: COACH Chris Hough has a simple reason for Waterhead’s recent upturn in fortunes. “The lads have got smiles on their faces,” said the half-back....
LEE Johnson believes the proposed worldwide blanket ban on betting will be impossible to police. Athletic’s manager expressed shock that ex-Tranmere boss Ronnie Moore...
The Roughyeds skipper writes every week for Chron Sport IT feels a slightly strange thing to write, but we played well against Bradford in the Tetley’s Challenge Cup even...
OLDHAM RL coach Scott Naylor described as “great news” the latest medical report on hooker Adam Files, who is recovering from knee surgery. There were fears that...
TEENAGE centre Edwin Okanga-Ajwang may be given his home debut in Oldham’s first game at Whitebank for five weeks. Aged 19 and the ‘baby’ of the...
