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STRIKER Jose Baxter has signed a three-year contract to join Athletic rivals Sheffield United for an undisclosed fee - believed to be less than £300,000. But Athletic...
Date Published 30/08/2013
AS ATHLETIC brace for life without Jose Baxter, a forward of a very different profile is making waves at Boundary Park. Jonson Clarke-Harris could not be described as a player...
SCOTT Naylor hasn't given up on seeing injured centre Jon Ford in Oldham colours again before this exciting season ends. The 19-year-old Salford City Reds prospect has spent...
CRICKET: LOCAL clubs have said yes to South West Manchester and Wythenshawe joining the Versasteel Saddleworth and District Cricket League. All 14 delegates voted in favour of...
Non-league football: CHADDERTON will bid to make it four wins in four North-West Counties League First Division games tomorrow when they head north to Barrow to take on Holker Old...
CRICKET: THE latest chapter in the Lake Garage CLL Championship title race will take place on Sunday. Royton and Werneth are locked together at the top of the table, both...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
TRAVELLERS have been accused of using a sledgehammer to smash their way into a Failsworth metal works before making off with power tools, steel and a company van worth...
POLICE are hunting two conmen they call “the lowest of the low” for stealing from a 92-year-old woman. The pair tricked their way into the elderly woman’s...
Date Published 29/08/2013
TV vEteran and child campaigner Esther Rantzen says Oldham’s new £5million youth zone is “fantastic” and should be copied around the country. The...
WORK continues to get Oldham’s first free school ready for its first day on Wednesday. Around 50 Year Seven pupils are expected to start at Collective Spirit which...
A MAN has been charged following a sexual assault in Oldham’s Spindles car park. Mohammed Abul Hassan (23) of Windsor Road, Oldham, faces two counts of attempted rape, sexual...
DANNY Philliskirk finally has the perfect chance to make his mark - putting an end to bad luck and broken promises to land a two-year contract with his home-town club. And the...
MORE than 750 homes and businesses were left without power following a fire in an electricity substation in Failsworth last night. Nine fire fighters from Hollins and Philips...
Councillors have put off a decision on allowing a developer to get out of an agreement to pay the council an affordable housing subsidy of over £467,000. Developer...
ROUGHYEDS hope to get RFL approval to follow Saturday's home friendly against a Leigh side with a second practice match the following weekend. That will keep the side active...
CRICKET: FOURTEEN could become 16 in the Saddleworth and District Cricket League. League bosses are urging clubs to agree to admit South-West Manchester and Wythenshawe to the...
CRICKET: ROYTON has suddenly emerged as favourite for the big prize. A weekend that saw the previous leaders lose twice – including at the hands of Royton at the Coppice...
A MAN has been arrested after a 19-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in Spindles car park. The victim was targeted at 10am on Monday when the man approached, spoke to her...
Date Published 28/08/2013
After more than 18 years Uppermill is to lose its popular high street Spar store. The store is to close, putting seven assistants out of work. A senior spokesman for...
CONNOR Brown is a toss-up to be fit for Saturday’s visit of Tranmere Rovers — but there is better news on another man earmarked as right-back cover. Brown (21)...
ATHLETIC boss Lee Johnson is playing it safe with striker Charlie MacDonald. Despite a minor injury against Walsall, the experienced player came on as a substitute to score at...
Chairman of Oldham Roughyeds’ Supporters’ Association Nigel Marland has issued a rallying call to fans ahead of the club’s assault on the Kingstone Press...
BRING your favourite teddy bear and blanket to the last Teddy Bears Picnic of the summer today at Grassroots Community Project, Marlborough Drive, 11am to 1pm. £1.50 a...
Date Published 27/08/2013
MANCHESTER United manager David Moyes claimed if any side was going to win the goalless stalemate with Chelsea last night, it would have been his. In a game of few...
ALMOST three in five homes in the North-West sold in 2012-13 will be subject to “punitive” Stamp Duty in five years time, new research by the Taxpayers’ Alliance...
FORMER Chronicle rugby league writer Roger Halstead summed up his Wembley experience on Saturday in one word – awesome. The 72-year-old Roughyeds media manager literally...
FOOTBALL: MOSSLEY were undone by a hat-trick from Matt Warburton as Tameside neighbours Curzon Ashton won 3-2 at Seel Park yesterday afternoon. In front of a bumper bank...
