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A RESOLUTE team of volunteers have come up with an alternative event to replace the axed Saddleworth Beer Walk. Now, instead of walking the traditional 11.2-mile route round...
Date Published 05/07/2013
BUSINESSES and investors are being urged to sponsor the upcoming Saddleworth Village Olympics to help the event go for gold rather than fall at the first hurdle. The annual...
BETH Sutcliffe believes home advantage could help inspire her England team to Women’s Rugby League World Cup glory next week. Thirty-year-old Beth, from Chadderton, has...
OLDHAM Sixth-Form College students put more than 250 pupils through their paces with a series of physical challenges and sporting competitions. Seven schools took part in the...
HAVING harvested 19 points from a possible 21 since Oxford beat them 18-16 at Whitebank in April, form-team Oldham are determined to keep up the good work at Iffley Road on...
WRITE us off at your peril. That is the message from Hollinwood skipper Shakeel Saddique ahead of Sunday’s Saddleworth and District Cricket League Tanner Cup semi-final at...
SHANE Tupaea believes his Saddleworth Rangers side will start picking up positive results — provided they can avoid the pitfalls which cost the club dear from a very...
WERNETH can place one hand on the Lake Garage CLL Championship trophy – and their first league title since the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 – by beating...
ATHLETIC manager Lee Johnson will run the rule over a host of trialists in tonight’s clash with Dinamo Bucharest. Goalkeeper Robbie Thomson, recently released by Celtic, will...
OLDHAM RL hope to bring in a player on loan from a Championship club in time for Sunday’s trip to Oxford. Coach Scott Naylor has also had talks with Salford City Reds...
WATCH and learn is the brief handed out by Athletic manager to his rookie players ahead of tonight’s test against Dinamo Bucharest at Leigh Sports Village (8pm kick-off)....
Golf club captains and their friends and relatives will be taking a dive from the skies over Blackpool tomorrow to raise funds for Dr Kershaw’s Hospice, Royton, and Willow...
SHOPPERS and commuters turned up in their hundreds to give their opinion on First bus services around Oldham. First staff brought a bus along to its stand in Oldham town...
MANCHESTER United’s oldest former player has died aged 91. Chaddertonian Jack Crompton made his goalkeeping debut in 1946 and helped the Reds to FA Cup victory against...
THE sale of two Oldham reservoirs has prompted anger and concern among residents who fear they will lose two popular beauty spots. United Utilities are selling Brushes Clough...
FIREFIGHTERS had to smash down a door to rescue an unconscious woman from a kitchen fire after she couldn’t find her keys to escape. The 61-year-old woman was rescued...
THE sale of two Oldham reservoirs has prompted concern among residents who fear they will lose two popular beauty spots. click story for more
HUNDREDS of workers in Chadderton experienced contrasting emotions yesterday as staff at one major firm faced job losses — while a once under-threat business company...
Date Published 04/07/2013
WORKERS at mail-order firm Shop Direct are facing anxious times after bosses announced plans to cut staff numbers by 125 at their Chadderton headquarters. The job cuts at...
AN engineering company which succumbed to voluntary administration only five months ago has announced it is to be acquired by one of the country’s leading environmental...
ECSTASY tablets, ketamine, cannabis and MDMA were found during a series of drug raids in Oldham. Four men and a woman were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply class...
RSPCA APPEAL IT’S a feline frenzy at RSPCA Oldham as staff attempt to rehome a record number of cats and kittens. The centre, in Rhodes Bank, is currently home to 46...
STRIKER Charlie MacDonald could be Athletic’s next signing. The out-of-contract former Leyton Orient player (32) is training with the squad this week, the Chronicle...
ORGANISATIONS with proposals on how to boost their local community can now apply for cash from a special fund. The Co-operative Oldham Fund — coordinated by Voluntary...
OLDHAM prop Liam Gilchrist, who has a slight calf strain, is doubtful for Sunday's clash with Tony Benson's Oxford at Iffley Road. He was taken off ten minutes into last...
Versasteel Saddleworth and District Cricket League by KEVIN RICHARDSON HEYSIDE Cricket Club are to appeal against the severity of the ban handed to Ben Holt. The first-team...
AN ICE cream and a bottle of Lucozade provided fast bowling star Steve Cheetham with the extra energy he needed to achieve an historic feat in the Lake Garage CLL. The Clifton...
VANDALS who went on a wrecking spree causing thousands of pounds worth of damage at a community allotment in Failsworth have stolen funds meant for sick children. A group of...
The chief executive of a scandal–hit Tameside hospital has said she tended her resignation because her position was “no longer helpful to the organisation”. Christine Green...
FORMER Athletic pair Jean-Yves Mvoto and Dean Furman are on the verge of linking up again with Paul Dickov at Doncaster Rovers. After newly-promoted Rovers had won their first...
Date Published 03/07/2013
