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SWEEPING changes intended to revolutionise pro rugby league have received the Oldham club’s unqualified support. In the short term it will mean the only club promoted...
Date Published 11/02/2014
CAMPAIGNER Barry Haslam’s request for a meeting to talk about prescription drug addicton has been rejected by the Prime Minister. Despite being a national voice and...
JOSE Mourinho claimed players have been given free rein to commit off–the–ball offences after the Football Association took no action against Manchester City...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards KEMPTON 5.15 Polydamos 5.45 Minstrel Lad 6.15 Pull The Pin 6.45...
Oldham’s Park Cake bakery’s new deal with Marks and Spencer is good news for the Oldham factory but bad news for a bakery in South Wales. Park Cake - a long term...
PARTS of Saddleworth were in darkness early this morning after an electrical fault. Street lights along Huddersfield Road were out and an electricity engineering van had...
FEARS are rising for fed-up residents on a street where a collapsed house wall has gone unrepaired for almost three weeks. Uncertainty surrounds who will pay for repairs to...
MARTYN MEETS...local favourite and TV star Suranne Jones IN the years I have had the privilege of meeting Oldham folk for this column, no chat has gone on as long as that with...
A 101-year-old woman who lived independently died only weeks after being admitted to a care home. May Powell was in the care of Butler Green House in Wallis Street, Chadderton...
Boxing: ENGLISH super-featherweight champion Jon ‘2 Smokes’ Kays is gearing up for another special night in Oldham next month. Hurst Cross-based Kays (30) is...
Date Published 10/02/2014
HOMES were evacuated and hundreds of children turned away from school this morning amid fears of a gas explosion. Firefighters were called to Ribble Packaging in Greengate...
A MAN who repeatedly stabbed a headteacher with a screwdriver in a frenzied attack has been detained indefinitely in a secure hospital. The order was made at Manchester Crown...
A FORMER Oldham police officer hooked on drugs has been jailed after trading a police baton and CS gas spray for heroin from a dealer. Robert Carroll (40), used a police car...
Two adults and four children escaped from a blazing terrace house in Garforth Street, Chadderton on Saturday evening. Firefighters arrived around 6pm to find fire blazing in...
LEE Johnson is holding on to the hope of bringing back James Tarkowski on loan to Boundary Park, despite Brentford’s late decision to block a deal last week. The...
SCOTT Naylor is too much of a realist to be carried away by his Oldham side’s win against Swinton Lions at Whitebank. For periods of the previous game at Barrow they...
Athletic 1, Bristol City 1 ATHLETIC huffed and puffed but couldn’t blow down Bristol City’s back door on an afternoon dominated by an intense, swirling wind....
Oldham 24, Swinton 18 IF there’s one thing Oldham fans have learned since Scott Naylor took charge, it’s leave before the end and you’ll miss the best of the...
ATHLETIC lacked movement and threat in the final third of the game, manager Lee Johnson admitted. But he wasn’t too unhappy to walk away with a point against former club...
Non-league football: MOSSLEY had to come from behind to beat Evo-Stik Division One North basement battlers Ossett Albion at a windswept Seel Park. The Lilywhites...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards AYR: 1.50 Titus Bolt 2.20 Layla Joan 2.55 Scimon Templar 3.25 Tiny...
BASKETBALL: SADDLEWORTH School’s senior basketball team has been crowned Greater Manchester’s finest. Having qualified to represent Oldham as borough tournament...
Date Published 07/02/2014
SNOOKER: DANNY Dawson dealt Three Cs ‘A’ an Oldham Amateur Snooker League title blow with a devastating last-frame performance for Deaf ‘B’ The title...
SPORTS BETTING: IS Jose Mourinho playing mind games, or does he really believe Chelsea are the outsiders in the three-way Premier League title race? Perhaps there is an...
The City kit boss and former Latics star writes every week for Chron Sport YOU’VE got to give credit to Chelsea for the way they played at the Etihad Stadium on Monday...
Ice Hockey: ROYTON starlet Lily Greaves has earned a dream call-up to the Great Britain team for the International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s Under-18 World Championships...
Angling: BLUE skies greeted anglers in the final round of the Mossella Bloodworm League on the Rufford Canal. Fishing was peggy though, with some dry nets and others fishing...
AFTER last weekend’s wash-out, hopes are high for tomorrow’s rearranged Tetley’s Challenge Cup first-round tie between Saddleworth Rangers and Milford Marlins....
FOOTBALL: WITH the vast majority of grass surfaces again being victims of the heavy rain during the week, 3G pitches again came to the rescue of some of the day’s key games....
AMATEUR FOOTBALL: AS manager of Royton Town in the Premier Division of the FBT Manchester League, Mark ‘Tank’ Howard doesn’t know what it means to be second...
