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ANTI-TRANQUILLISER campaigner Barry Haslam will today meet shadow health secretary Andy Burnham to press for more help for addicts. Barry, chairman of Oldham Tranx, is in...
Date Published 09/07/2013
OLDHAM’S new loan prop Matthew Haggarty wants to be around long enough to help Roughyeds to win promotion. The 22 year old has signed for a month but is banking on doing...
A GROUP planning an Oldham free school staffed by ex-military personnel has been criticised by council leader Jim McMahon for its “lack of professionalism” . In an...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards LINGFIELD 2.00 Planchette 2.30 Matraash 3.00 Langham Lily 3.30...
A LANDLORD who spent #25,000 refurbishing his pub was shocked to discover the brewery had submitted plans to demolish it. click story for more
CHARLIE MacDonald has already provided Athletic with a telling indication of his appetite for goals. An experienced operator in League One, MacDonald celebrated signing an...
Date Published 08/07/2013
Matthew Haggarty has brought Scott Naylor’s seven-week chase to an end by signing for Roughyeds on loan. Haggarty, the 22-year-old Barrow Raiders prop or second-row...
New players hold their own against quality opposition NO wonder manager Lee Johnson wore a broad smile after watching his fresh-faced, sharp Athletic teams take on Dinamo...
Oxford 4, Oldham 22 Oldham are looking like a team that can end the Roughyeds’ seven-season stay in rugby league’s third tier. This 22-4 win in Oxford carried...
Championship One-form team Oldham recorded their fourth win in a row at Oxford - their eighth win in 10 outings. “It was an ugly win, yet a job well done...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards WOLVERHAMPTON 1.45 Whipphound 2.15 Red Cape 2.45 Velvetina 3.15...
Two attacked in late-night disturbance A 29-YEAR-OLD man was stabbed in the neck in Oldham’s Yorkshire Street in the early hours of Saturday. The seriously-injured...
THIEVES ran off with a haul of jewellery when they broke into a 95-year-old woman’s house as she slept. The raiders smashed a ground-floor window at the back of the...
PETE Cuniffe did not put a foot wrong in Medlock Bridge AC matches, winning both the Saturday and Monday Park Lake opens. Saturday’s match saw Pete on peg 13, where he fished...
Date Published 05/07/2013
AN MP is demanding the Labour Party debates whether to replace Britain’s nuclear deterrent at a cost of billions — when most people would prioritise spending on health, education...
DELPH will come face-to-face with an old pal tomorrow as they travel to Shelley in the Drakes Huddersfield League Premiership. Shelley, who sit in 10th place in the table,...
SILVER surfers will be celebrating graduating from a computer course on Monday. Developed by Oldham’s Friends and Neighbours team, the web literacy course aims to counteract...
A WELL-KNOWN musician and teacher will be in the hearts and minds of members of Oldham Symphony Orchestra on Sunday as they dedicate their latest concert to their former leader....
A COUNCILLOR has written to a water company to express his disappointment that they failed to attend a public meeting held to discuss ways of preventing flooding in Saddleworth....
FAILSWORTH School has received a £317,348 sporting boost. The grant from the Football Foundation, the country’s largest sports charity, will upgrade the...
TWELVE-year-old swim sensation Alex Crossland-Robins was in terrific form when competing at the British Gas ASA North-West Regional Age Group Championships. Royton and...
IT’S celebratory doubles at a Saddleworth hostelry after it scooped not one but two national pub awards. The Swan, in Dobcross — which only 12 months ago was...
TEENAGE Oldham Netball Club ace Alice Travis is currently preparing with the England under-21s squad to take part in the World Youth Championships. The tournament takes place...
ThIS year’s Saddleworth under-15s Cricket League Leicester Shield final will be contested between the two teams at the top of the table following easy semi-final victories....
ARRON Lilley was in devastating form for Delph last night as Grant Jones’s side progressed to the quarter-finals of the Drakes Huddersfield League All Rounder Twenty20...
TWO lucky Mahdlo members will soon make their way to Buckingham Palace to rub shoulders with royalty and chat to business owners about the advantages of investing in youth...
OLDHAM Council’s business partner Mouchel has celebrated its 125th anniversary by supporting young people. To commemorate the milestone, the business known as the Unity...
A Saddleworth councillor has hit out at plans to segregate the residents of a new housing development from the rest of the community, using a metal fence that would also restrict...
VOLUNTEERS in Oldham are being urged to help out with a charity music festival for Oxfam in October. Oxjam, a month of gigs across the country, is hoping to come to town this...
OLDHAM’S youth mayors will now have their names recorded for posterity on a specially created roll of honour. A board in the council chamber at the cvic centre has long...
