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A LIFELONG Latics fan has taken his love for the club to the next level. Martin Thomas’s Chadderton-based firm Optima Cars will sponsor the Man of the Match award for...
Date Published 21/06/2013
CRICKET: MOORSIDE will have first go at dislodging the Bamford Fieldhouse openers on Saturday. Professional Grant Hodnett and Josh Tolley have clocked up three games and...
CRICKET: SHAW ran into trouble in their latest Saddleworth League clash against Hollinwood. Mark Ingham’s side were on 131 for two when a succession of batsmen got...
CRICKET: TEAM first, himself second is Ben Dunk’s approach to cricket - despite his individual heroics for the Lake Garage CLL club so far this season. The...
OLDHAM new boy Anthony Bowman played a pivotal role as Roughyeds won a cliff-hanger in South Wales last weekend. And though he’s only here for a month, the 21-year-old...
PLACES are now being booked for a crafts and table-top sale at Shaw United Reformed Church, Rochdale Road. The event takes place from 9.30am-12.30pm on Saturday, July 6. To...
A CONTROVERSIAL development to convert a former Moorside pub into a DIY store looks set to go ahead. The Village Inn, Ripponden Road, has twice seen plans rejected and a...
Oldham’s vacant Kiss nightclub has sold for £100,000 at auction. The winning bid for the three-storey, 3,908 sq ft building exceeded its...
THE Chronicle has again joined the town centre Best Bar None scheme, which improves safety at Oldham’s pubs, bars and nightclubs. The nationwide scheme promotes...
GREATER Manchester Police has recovered nearly £7million from criminals under the Proceeds of Crime Act in the last 12 months. Almost 290 POCA confiscation orders and...
THE former head of Royton and Crompton School has taken charge of a struggling academy in Cumbria. Desmond Herlihy, headmaster of Royton and Crompton for 16 years, led the...
MOORS Murderer Ian Brady remains “chronically psychotic” and should remain in hospital for treatment, his mental health tribunal has heard. The child killer...
BOWLS: THREE places in the All-England Merit and one in the Champion of Champions tournament in Blackpool will be up for grabs when North Chadderton Social and Bowling Club...
ANGLING: MY SEASON didn’t get off to the best of starts. I missed the match I was intending to take part in and instead ended up with a pleasure session on the...
RUGBY: EMMERSON Jackman admits he is tempted to throw a few more of Saddleworth Rangers’ teenage talents into the fray, such is the effect the under-18s stars have had...
FOOTBALL: CHADDERTON and Oldham Boro are to clash in one of two North-West Counties League knock-out competitions. The draws were made at the annual meeting in Blackpool,...
CRICKET: DELPH skipper Grant Jones will be seeking a positive response from his players tomorrow (1.30pm) when they get back to Drakes Huddersfield League Premiership action....
CRICKET: POPULAR Oldham sporting figure Jack Bamford is praying for fine weather. That’s because 67-year-old Bamford – the Oldham Sunday Football League...
CRICKET: MOMENTUM is building at Ladhill Lane. Four victories on the bounce have put a spring in the step of Greenfield as the Saddleworth and District Cricket League season...
CRICKET: WERNETH and Royton warm up for Sunday’s important league programme with Lees Bitter Twenty20 Cup quarter-finals tomorrow. Werneth, unbeaten in three...
Cricket: FOLLOWERS of Werneth won’t know which way to jump when looking out for the result of tomorrow’s Lake Garage CLL Championship match between Radcliffe and...
THE FRIDAY THING: I AM not sure whether Eric Pickles is offering we mere mortals a tit-bit from the table of the gods or a punishment for not honouring our esteemed leaders....
A ROYTON restoration firm has helped to preserve cricketing history at Old Trafford. Building company Maysand has carried out a £60,000 conservation project on the...
JOIN up with other concerned neighbours to protect your local area at a Lees and Hey Home Watch Group to be held at Lees Library on Wednesday from 7.30pm. OLDHAM Mayor,...
SIXTY-five years ago today Chadderton engineer Geoff Tootill helped to usher in the age of the modern computer. He was a member of the team at Manchester University which...
OLDHAM West and Royton MP Michael Meacher has accused the Government of allowing the rich to become richer and punishing ordinary people. The Labour MP said Prime Minister...
The woman arrested last year amid accusations of covering up the burial place of Ian brady victim Keith Bennet is current sitting-in on the child killer’sprison-move...
AS one music venue, The Castle, faced the bulldozer last week, business partners Mike Williamson (24) and Chris Satchell (26), were finalising plans to open a new Oldham music...
OLDHAM College is part of a new company which aims to pump millions into further education in the region. The Greater Manchester Colleges Group joint venture company is made...
Pals backing bid to raise £11,000 A little boy who suddenly lost his hearing and speech at the age of three is counting on family, friends and classmates to raise...
