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FORMER pianist and soprano singer Ida Buckley celebrates her 101st birthday today. Ida, who now lives at Oakdene Nursing Home in Lees, was a member of Dobcross Band along with...
Date Published 21/05/2013
RISING numbers of older people are facing homelessness as they struggle to make mortgage and rent payments. National debt charity StepChange has seen a significant rise in the...
REFURBISHMENT of the historic George Street Chapel is almost complete: now all the building needs is a new name. Age UK Oldham has brought the historic building back to life...
A CONCERNED mum was left furious after her 11-month-old baby burned her foot on exposed heating pipes at her home. But First Choice Homes Oldham says while it sympathises with...
LANDMARK pubs with historic pedigrees have been omitted from a new guide... all about heritage pubs. Although Saddleworth boasts some hostelries dating back hundreds of years,...
OLDHAM councillor Hugh McDonald is stepping down from the Council cabinet role he loves. The Alexandra ward councillor, who has represented Oldham on and off since 1971, will...
CRICKET: DELPH professional Kevin Hook was in brilliant form as he helped his side through a potentially-tricky Sykes Cup second-round tie against Drakes Huddersfield League...
CRICKET: LAST year's losing Tanner Cup finalists Glodwick tripped at the first hurdle when they were comprehensively beaten by Austerlands at Warren Lane. Despite a...
CRICKET: CROMPTON haven’t enjoyed the best of luck in the John Willie Lees Wood Cup in recent seasons. But all that changed at Towncroft yesterday when Carl Taylor's men...
CRCKET: WERNETH suffered Wood Cup heartbreak yesterday when they lost to Rochdale on the minutest of inferior run rates. Both teams were bowled out at the Coppice for 148 so...
CRICKET: BAMFORD Fieldhouse face expulsion from this season's Tanner Cup. Favourites to win the Saddleworth and District Cricket League's knock-out competition for a seventh...
A TALENTED Oasis Academy Oldham pupil with a flair for business and fashion has been given a major boost by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Eric Bishyika (16),...
THE funeral of David Foden, who founded the Oldham Owls wheelchair basketball club, will take place tomorrow. The 64 year old died at the Christie Hospital on April 28. He...
THE rain held off to the delight of hundreds of Oldhamers who took part in Whit Walks across the borough yesterday. Members of churches from all over Oldham were accompanied...
OLDHAM Council is to pay most attention to the borough’s main roads when repairing potholes. A new approach will improve the main roads into Oldham — but may leave...
A postman who turned to crime to pay off spiralling debts has been jailed for 14 months. Father of two Darren Lowe (47), who worked at Oldham delivery office on Hamilton...
SELF-CONFESSED police killer Dale Cregan had bizarrely pleaded not guilty to two murders - despite admitting them numerous times, a jury was told yesterday. His confession...
Latics boss accepts loss of star striker ATHLETIC are ready to bow to the inevitable and see Matt Smith go elsewhere this summer. The Chronicle can reveal that an improved...
SCOTT Naylor is keen to extend Danny Whitmore's loan period at Oldham. The Batley Bulldogs' player, here for a month, hinted after his first game at Hemel Stags that a longer...
PAUL Dickov believes there is no limit to what he can achieve as the new manager of Doncaster. The 40–year–old former Athletic boss was named Brian Flynn’s...
SIR Alex Ferguson has warned young managers to learn their trade at the lower levels of football if they want to make it to the top. Ferguson - named LMA manager of the year...
CHRONICLE racing tipster Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
A PUB’S latest attempt to create a beer garden close to neighbouring homes has been blasted by residents and councillors. JD Wetherspoon pub The Shay Wake in Shaw was...
Date Published 20/05/2013
A ROYTON construction worker was murdered by his kidnappers just minutes after a joint UK and Nigerian rescue operation stormed into the compound where he was held, an inquest has...
OLDHAM Integrated Youth Service is in line for a bumper lottery boost. The group will use its £110,700 share of £1 million from Sport England to strengthen...
HUNDREDS of people packed into Oldham Civic Centre to hear words of wisdom from Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus. Professor Yunus, known as the world’s...
OLDHAMER Paul Sculthorpe received the MBE in the New Years Honours List for his services to rugby and his charity work. The 35-year-old, a former pupil at Counthill School,...
JAMES Dayton was tipped for an England call-up last month — and the exciting winger has arrived at Boundary Park with the promise he will lift supporters off their seats....
BIG prop Liam Gilchrist is getting closer to full match fitness as Oldham RL gear up for the most critical period of their season. Out for seven weeks with a calf injury, he...
ROBIN van Persie wishes Manchester United could have found a "Fergie Time" winner at West Brom to give Sir Alex Ferguson the perfect send–off. Instead,...
