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AN Oldham boy who was badly injured in a road accident has been handed a national award and a computer to “give him his voice back”. Adam McQuillan received a...
Date Published 12/11/2013
A COMMUNITY has paid tribute to a 12-year-old boy who died suddenly from suspected appendicitis. Family and friends gathered at Hollinwood Tenants’ Hall for a memorial...
THE ultimate sacrifice made by military men and women were explored by students at a Chadderton school yesterday. As part of a history project, pupils at The Radclyffe School...
A SHAW teenager has been banned from entering Shaw town centre for two years. Oldham Council has successfully obtained an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) against Curtis...
A TERRIFIED debt collector has been robbed at gunpoint for the second time in six months. The 46-year-old woman was with her 20-year-old daughter on Longfellow Crescent,...
OLDHAM’S sporting heroes took centre stage as they scooped a fantastic FOUR gongs at the Greater Manchester Sports Awards. A packed audience of 600 people, which...
Date Published 11/11/2013
THE shelf on which Dorothy Shirley-Emerson keeps her Olympic high-jump silver medal has a new souvenir for company. And it may mean a spot more dusting for the 74-year-old,...
SUNSHINE favoured the brave on Remembrance Sunday as Oldhamers came out in force to pay respect to those who gave their lives for their country. Bright sunlight shone...
THE silence was palpable . . . lifted only by a breeze buffeting the rugged moorland grasses. Bright sunshine doused the simple red poppies, worn on coats, jackets and hats of...
SLEET storms hit parts of Oldham on Saturday afternoon leaving one Failsworth street looking like a scene from a Christmas card. An unfortunate postman was caught in the hail...
ATHLETIC’S fans had a major role to play in driving the team on in the Wolves draw, according to winger James Dayton. The architect of Genseric Kusunga’s opening...
Athletic 1, Wolves 1 KOREY Smith epitomised this gutsy effort, running himself into the sodden ground as Athletic took, lost and then regained the initiative in a cracking...
RAIN failed to dampen the Christmas spirit as reindeers paraded down the high street on Saturday afternoon to launch Oldham’s festive season. Excited children and their...
ATHLETIC manager Lee Johnson was content to have pushed Wolves all the way in a frantic, old-fashioned FA Cup tie at Boundary Park. Kirk Millar’s late shot almost...
MANUEL Pellegrini has warned that Manchester City’s travel sickness could derail their Barclays Premier League title challenge. City lost 1-0 at Sunderland for the...
DAVID Moyes insists Manchester United still have some big steps to take despite yesterday’s crucial 1-0 win over Arsenal. After a troubled start to his managerial reign,...
MOSSLEY eased to a 2-0 home Evo-Stik Division One North victory against Cammell Laird at a wet and windswept Seel Park. The three points lifted the Lilywhites into 11th place...
Keith McHugh’s selection for tomorrow Sedgefield 12.50 Salto Chisco 1.20 Halo Moon 1.50 Bocamix 2.20 Coverholder 2.50 One For Harry 3.20 Divers...
LANCASHIRE AMATEUR LEAGUE OLDHAM Hulmeians cruised past rock-bottom Thornleigh 6-2 in Division One of the Lancashire Amateur League. The floodgates opened in the eighth...
Date Published 08/11/2013
OLDHAM SUNDAY LEAGUE PAUL Collins and Paul Naylor both struck hat-tricks as Jolly Carter went goal crazy in the Midas Plumbing and Heating Oldham Sunday League Jack Abbott...
IF any evidence was needed to confirm the vastly-improved standards of the Midas Plumbing and Heating Services Oldham Sunday League, then it was here by the bucket-load at the...
MANCHESTER LEAGUE FBT Manchester League top flight outfit Springhead progressed to the third round of the West Riding County FA Cup as they beat West Yorkshire League side...
SPRINGBANK Bowling Club are celebrating a season of unprecedented success. Despite strong opposition from the likes of Nimble Nook, Waterloo and Taunton, Meltham and Hopwood,...
OLDHAM women firsts remain top of North Hockey Division Two South-West despite being held to a 2-2 draw by Stockport Bramhall at Newman College. Two goals from Louise Howard...
MUDDY conditions brought to a halt Oldham’s excellent run in North Lancashire Division One. In previous games this season, their mobile players had been able to give...
BOBBY Mimms has played at the old Wembley Stadium on a handful of occasions — and he’d love to go back there in April as part of Athletic’s coaching staff....
AT Manchester City we used to say Everton were our bogey team, but Sunderland have definitely overtaken The Toffees on that front. We suffered our fourth consecutive 1-0...
DARTS SECOND-placed Oldham and leaders St Helens shared 10 games in a Lancashire GMC Super Eights Elite League cracker. Trailing 1-0, Andy Pearson’s 4-2 triumph...
TABLE TENNIS SADDLEWORTH endured mixed fortunes in Division One of the Oldham and District Table Tennis League. Paul Cicchelli, Larry Bainbridge and Nick Mooney did the...
SADDLEWORTH School Year Eights faced a tough test today when they were hoping to make it through to round four of the ESFA Under-13 Play Station Schools’ Cup with victory...
