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MAKE a splash at the Cartmel Crescent Allotment Association open day, from 2 to 4pm on Saturday. As well as activities such as willow weaving, making insect houses and...
Date Published 02/08/2013
A MAN visiting his grandmother’s Saddleworth grave spent hours digging and cutting weeds so he could see the plot. Neil Barlow was shocked that the cemetery at St...
Members of Saddleworth’s district executive and district partnership have joined protests about the scrapping of fee exemptions for charity and voluntary groups by the...
Saddleworth is blooming lovely in summer — as parish councillors have found for this year’s Saddleworth in Bloom competition. Council chairman Councillor Graham...
CRICKET: IT was start of the new Millennium when Uppermill and Moorside previously locked horns in the Tanner Cup final. The year was 2000 and Leefields was the venue as...
CRICKET: PAUL Thompson likes to lead from the front. The 40 year old has become a vital part of the Uppermill first XI picture after swapping the Pollards for Leefields in...
CRICKET: MICHAEL Pote’s luck simply has to change. Crompton’s professional has had plenty of it since arriving in England from South Africa — all of it...
NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: OLDHAM Boro chairman Mark Kilgannon is confident of shaking off a costly three-point deduction with further improvements in the coming North-West Counties...
THE Royal Oldham Hospital’s outpatient eye service will next week move to the town centre’s Integrated Care Centre. The move, on Tuesday, is the latest step in NHS...
FOOTBALL: GRASS roots football in Oldham has been given two £5,000 “Grow the Game” grants by the Football Foundation. The monely, from the the country’s largest sports...
SADDLEWORTH School’s Year Seven cricket team defeated Crompton House by just one wicket in an exciting Oldham Schools’ final staged at Heyside Cricket Club. Having...
GOLF: CROMPTON and Royton Golf Club is to introduce a new junior version of the Chronicle Cup. The club opted for a junior medal event after discovering a trophy, the Lees...
GOLF: THE race for play-off places in the Oldham and District Golf League has gone down to the wire. With the final round of league matches this week, the make-up of the...
GOLF: KEVIN Duffy ended a 10-year wait for a major at Stamford Golf Club when he won the Rawson Cup. His return of 71-6-65 gave him victory over Dwayne Lloyd (77-10-67),...
MANCHESTER City are waiting to learn the full extent of defender Matija Nastasic’s ankle injury. There are fears the Serbian centre–back could miss the start of...
ATHLETIC boss Lee Johnson is relishing the prospect of tomorrow’s season opener at Stevenage. After busy summers, both sets of fans and players will fancy their chances...
THE wealth of attack-minded talent at Athletic means new striker Adam Rooney simply can’t wait to be unleashed on opposition defences this season. Dublin-born Rooney...
OLDHAM may have to go to London Skolars on Sunday without Championship One’s leading try scorer, centre Jon Ford. Coach Scott Naylor has been warned by Salford City Reds...
CRICKET: ROYTON will place one foot in next summer’s Lake Garage CLL Premier Division should they beat Crompton in one of two Championship derby games tomorrow. Already...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards DONCASTER 2.25 Green Monkey 3.00 Stella Clavisque 3.35 Deserted...
EXCITING plans for a new digital skills centre at Oldham College have been unveiled. A planning application will be submitted today for the four-storey, £9million...
HEROIN worth £100,000 was discovered and nine people arrested when police raided houses in Chadderton yesterday. Officers from the Oldham Division’s Organised...
CHADDERTON-born supermodel Karen Elson has filed a restraining order against rock-star hubby Jack White. Elson said she feared for her own and her children’s safety...
ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY transport has been given the green light by Oldham Council, which has unveiled new vehicle charging points across the borough. Five town-centre...
£100 million proposals have been drawn up for a business park and hundreds of new homes on a controversial 121-acre stretch of green land in Chadderton. Outline planning...
Date Published 01/08/2013
A MAN in his 70s has died after walking in front of a tram in Chadderton. CCTV showed the pensioner walking from the platform at Freehold station, Block Lane, into the path of...
A COCKY driver caught at record-breaking speed on a motorway laughed off a three-year road ban and told the court: “I’m still going to drive, catch me if you...
A 400-YEAR-OLD relic from Royton Hall which disappeared over 20 years ago has turned up on Ebay. The stone plaque — which bears the coat of arms of the Percival family,...
ATHLETIC today completed the signing of striker Adam Rooney in a two-year-deal. The Dublin-born forward (25) had been involved in a protracted dispute with Swindon over a...
OLDHAM have lost the services of loan prop Nathan Mason. The highly-rated 19 year old, who has played in top-of-the-table Roughyeds' last four games, has been recalled by...
