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THE chain which runs Oldham Academy North is to be stripped of 10 of its academies because of concerns over education standards. The Department for Education (DfE) says it has...
Date Published 26/02/2014
OLDHAM Council chief Jim McMahon has been named Council Leader of the Year. He received the award last night at a local government gathering in London celebrating some of the...
POLICE have launched a crackdown to protect vulnerable cabbies after a spate of local attacks. Operation Lance will see officers work alongside the council and taxi firms,...
Oldham Council Cabinet OLDHAM Liberal Democrats urged the Cabinet to be more innovative in its plans to make better use of two and three-bedroom homes vacant following the...
Orlando, Royal Exchange, Manchester, to March 22 THE combination of Oldham’s brightest current star and one of the Exchange’s most promising up-and-coming directors takes a...
LEE Johnson defended his decision to tinker with a winning line-up last night after Athletic’s miserable home defeat. George Baldock and Izale McLeod scored for MK Dons...
THREE Oldham backs are having treatment as the Roughyeds prepare for their opening Kingstone Press Championship One game in South Wales on Sunday. Centre David Cookson has a...
Athletic 1, MK Dons 2 THE WAIT for a second back-to-back winning sequence in 2013-14 goes on. Not since November has Athletic managed to follow one victory with another....
DAVID Moyes admitted he was stunned by the inept display of his players as Manchester United were left on the brink of an early Champions League exit by Greek side Olympiacos....
Celtic Dragons 51, Manchester Thunder 54 IN-FORM Manchester Thunder left it late to claim victory in the final quarter of a tense Zeo Superleague encounter in Cardiff. The...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards SOUTHWELL 2.20 Frankthetank 2.50 Fuel Injection 3.20 Staff Sergeant...
MUCH-travelled midfield dynamo Terry Dunfield is itching to break into Athletic’s first team. The 32-year-old Canadian has had a varied career, which started at...
Date Published 25/02/2014
A FAIRTRADE stall of grocery products will be taking place on Thursday at Trinity Methodist Church, Royton. The event will run from 9am-noon during the coffee morning. POLICE...
Former England player Gary Lineker and Manchester United football player Shinji Kagawa were in Oldham’s Alexandra Park recently — filming a mobile phone commercial...
Dateline: Sylhet, Bangladesh FINALLY, the last day of the Tour de Sylhet dawned and my aching legs were craving a rest as we climbed aboard our tour bus for a 30-mile drive to a...
Weekday closure part of pilot scheme THE future of the cells at Chadderton Police Station are in doubt — only eight years after the station opened. A pilot scheme to...
WORK and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has said the Government learned a lot from introducing Universal Credit in Oldham. Statistics show job-seekers in the borough...
TAKE part in a lively discussion on Thursday at Failsworth Library’s Rush Hour Readers’ Group. It mets once a month, from 5.30-6.30pm, in a relaxed, informal...
RUGBY UNION: Oldham 17, Didsbury Toc H 17 A BRAVE comeback from Oldham helped rescue a 17-17 draw against Didsbury Toc H in North Lancashire Division One, on a day when...
MARTYN MEETS... Shoab Akhtar, Oldham Council deputy chief FROM the strife-torn border region of Kashmir on the India-Pakistan border to the corridors of power at the Civic...
WATER POLO: ROYTON star Joe O’Regan was a member of the City Of Manchester team which lost to Cheltenham in a dramatic British Gas Men’s Water Polo Championship...
A PROUD daughter has paid tribute to her late father — a Second World War veteran and a former Oldham councillor. James William Boardman, known as Jim, died of pneumonia...
LOCAL MEP Chris Davies has been shortlisted to win a prestigious award for his services to the environment. The Liberal Democrat North-West representative has been nominated...
RUGBY: St Anne’s 70, Hollinwood 12 NATIONAL Conference side St. Anne’s proved too strong for Pennine League opponents Hollinwood in the first round of the...
The City kit boss and former Latics star writes every week for Chron Sport ALL attention is on the Capital One Cup final for City and I’m really looking forward to going...
An heroic workman suffered horrific injuries when he was run down by a thief who had just stolen his own van. The 50 year old jumped on the front of the vehicle and was thrown...
Winchester ‘needs to stamp his authority’ CARL Winchester has the talent to succeed — but needs more drive. The midfielder earned an unexpected recall to...
THE body of a man was recovered from Dovestone Reservoir yesterday. Police sealed-off the Saddleworth beauty spot around 10.30am following reports a body had been spotted....
A MAN has died following a car accident in Royton. Police were called to the junction of Rochdale Road and Dogford Road following reports of a collision shortly early on...
SCOTT Naylor will warn his Oldham outfit to expect a rough ride in their cup clash with crack Cumbrian amateur side Egremont Rangers. Having lost first time out at Hunslet...
