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Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
Date Published 23/08/2013
HOCKEY: SHAW’S Nicola White and her England team-mates are aiming for EuroHockey glory. England are in the final against Germany tomorrow for the first time in 22 years...
AN amputee who faces losing more of his leg has been told he must work. Leslie Ross of Failsworth had his benefits cut in May. The Department for Work and Pensions has now...
Date Published 22/08/2013
POLICE are trying to establish the identity of a man hit and killed by a train in Greenfield. British Transport Police say the man was killed on a foot crossing a few hundred...
GCSE RESULTS: INSPIRATIONAL Halima Chowdhury has chalked up top GCSE results - despite missing long periods of school through illness. The 16 year old muscular dystrophy...
GCSE RESULTS: THE proportion of GCSEs awarded at least a C grade has fallen for the second year running, official figures have revealed. Just over two–thirds (68.1...
GCSE RESULTS: STUDENTS at Blue Coat School have celebrated outstanding GCSE results. Three-quarters of students achieved the national benchmark of five GCSEs at C or above...
GCSE RESULTS: SADDLEWORTH School is celebrating record GCSE results. A total of 76 per cent of pupils achieved the Government’s gold standard of five A* to C grades,...
GCSE RESULTS: THIS quartet of outstanding students is celebrating a year of excellent results at North Chadderton School. The Chadderton Hall Road school achieved a 73 per...
ATHLETIC will stick with their existing squad on Saturday to get the home campaign up and running. Jonson Clarke-Harris and David Mellor are both due to train tomorrow and...
A YOUNG Oldham RL squad's ability to learn from mistakes was key to their top-two finish, said assistant boss Lee Spencer. The players, nearly a dozen of whom were playing...
THERE is no question that Jose Baxter’s manager has full belief in his talent. Words like “maverick” and “genius” aren’t thrown around...
AS it was so often during his career, Roger Halstead will be all eyes and ears this weekend at the Tetley’s Challenge Cup final - only this time he gets to play a role ON...
“THE points will soon pile up,” those 358 Athletic fans exiting London Road may well have said, “if we keep playing like that.” Positive reactions to...
ADAM Rooney needs to take a leaf out of Lee Hughes’ book to get up and running for Athletic. The striker, signed on a free transfer from Birmingham City before the start...
Date Published 21/08/2013
A UNION boss is urging Oldhamers to reject fire service cuts that could hit staffing levels at Chadderton, Oldham and Mossley fire stations. Dave German, a Fire Brigade Union...
OLDHAM RL Club hope to know soon whether they have been successful in finding friendly opposition to keep their squad match-fit for the play-offs. Chairman Chris Hamilton...
CONTROVERSIAL Delph-based Capita Translating and Interpreting suffered a £15 million loss last year. The company - formerly Applied Language Solutions - reported the...
NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: MOSSLEY picked up their first point of the season in Evo-Stik League Division One North with a 1-1 draw at Wakefield last night. The hosts went in...
Oldham Post Office workers will stage a 48-hour strike over the August bank holiday in an escalating row over pay, jobs and closures. Members of the Communication Workers...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards YORK 1.55 Thunder Strike 2.30 Queen Catrine 3.05 Queensberry Rules...
POLICE are investigating after two cars and a taxi were deliberately set alight in separate attacks in Oldham overnight. The first incident occurred shortly after 9pm with...
A PERVERT with an “unhealthy fetish” for taking pictures of schoolgirls in the street ended up being thumped in the face. A 16-year-old victim spotted what Wayne...
SPORTS BETTING: ROBIN van Persie stated his intentions in no uncertain terms at Swansea on Saturday. The Premier League’s most prolific striker, winner of the Golden...
HULME Grammar school’s sixth formers have excelled in their A-levels. Students have boosted the top grade pass rate by 4.5 per cent over last year, to an impressive 63.5...
Date Published 20/08/2013
TWO Oldham students have won coveted places at Oxford and Cambridge. Rohin Aojula (18) and Tom Langton (18), both from Saddleworth, study at Manchester Grammar School....
A Shaw man has been disqualified from driving and given a 12 month community order after falsely using a policeman’s details to get his car back. Asad Amin (21), of...
DEMOLITION of oldham College’s six-storey tower block stopped for a time when a shard of metal stabbed a passer-by on the college grounds. A man involved in the...
A STREET lamp in Greenfield has been shining continuously for the past five years! Steven Quilter of Warlow Crescent, Greenfield says neighbouring street Gladstone Terrace...
