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Chronicle Tipster Keith McHugh’s top bets for tomorrow’s National Hunt meetings LEICESTER 1.00 Annaluna 1.30 Oscar Hill 2.00 No No Bingo 2.30...
Date Published 05/12/2012
BETTING: BOOKMAKERS never miss an opportunity to make a fast buck and they certainly have been quick out of the blocks over William and Kate’s baby announcement. In...
OLDHAM faces a “housing timebomb” with builders failing to keep up with local demand. Last year around 400 houses were planned but only 230 were built. The...
Date Published 04/12/2012
OLDHAM Council has been piloting an early-payment scheme which could generate £2million over the next four years. The electronic payment system enables the local...
A DAZZLING display of Christmas trees filled Oldham Parish Church in aid of worthy causes. More than 50 sparking trees provided by the town centre church have been decorated...
FOOTBALL: A frozen pitch put paid to Mossley’s clash with Ossett Town in Evo-Stik League Division One North at the weekend. The same fate befell Oldham Boro’s...
THE Barclays Premier League title race is yet to become one run only by Manchester City and Manchester United, according to Old Trafford manager Sir Alex Ferguson. The 70 year...
POLICE are aiming to make it a bleak Christmas for robbers with the launch of a joint operation today. Alongside the security industry, the operation will combat...
Manchester City full–back Maicon is certain the club is destined for Champions League success. City have again failed to impress in Europe's elite competition this...
A radio DJ blamed Oldham Council after it failed to turn up to supervise the Christmas lights switch-on in his village. Mike Sweeney, breakfast show host on 106.1fm RealXS,...
TABLE TENNIS: BIRLEY Moss and Coldhurst ‘A’ had a ding-dong battle in Division Two of the Oldham and District Table Tennis League. And Moss emerged victorious...
Martyn Meets... Euro MP Chris Davies, part two WINNING is habit forming, so I am reliably informed, and Chris Davies is man used to winning. As a Liberal-Democrat in the...
CRICKET: OLDHAM Cricket Club intend to fulfil their fixtures in the Lake Garage CLL next season - despite grave and continued concerns over the club’s future....
CHARITABLE Failsworth youngsters have raised more than £2,200 for charity. Caring children from Failsworth School announced their Children in Need fundraising total last...
Athletic progressed to a third-round FA Cup date with Nottingham Forest thanks to a style of play the late Brian Clough would have approved of. “If God had wanted us to...
Shaw is filled with Christmas spirit following the switch-on of the high street’s Christmas illuminations. Oldham Athletic player David Mellor performed the switch-on,...
Driver flouts law only yards from CCTV safety car BREAKING the rules doesn’t get much more blatant than this (picture). A motorist is blocking a dropped kerb, is on the...
A RECORD-BREAKING family is celebrating another achievement: first to have their baby at the Royal Oldham Hospital’s new maternity unit. Jacob Leighton Allt was born at...
Oldham Council Cabinet COUNCIL bosses cutting £31million from the borough budget say the situation is set to get worse this week. Council cabinet members say their...
A SEVEN-MONTH-OLD baby was rushed to hospital after a fire ripped through a Werneth home early today. Four residents, including the tot, had to be taken from their Wellington...
A man who exposed himself to a teenage girl on a bus before assaulting her ha been sentenced to a 36-month community order by Oldham magistrates. Benjamin Francis Cole-Barker...
ALEX Cisak has criticised Athletic for the way they have handled an alleged contract dispute. But the club remains insistent there is no disagreement. The goalkeeper...
ARABIAN NIGHTS, Lowry, Salford, to January 12 AFTER a slightly disappointing show last Christmas, the Library Company comes out all-tales blazing this year with a play that...
THE squad Scott Naylor is assembling at Whitebank for a promotion push in 2013 will be unrecognisable from Tony Benson’s Oldham, which finished sixth out of 10 last season...
MANCHESTER City striker Edin Dzeko hopes the team can shrug off the absence of key players to salvage something from their dismal European campaign. City cannot reach the...
City kit boss and former LAtics star Les Chapman writes every week for Chron Sport MANCHESTER City are gearing up for two huge matches following the 1-1 draw with Everton at...
Chronicle Tipster Keith McHugh’s top bets for tomorrow’s National Hunt meetings KEMPTON 3.50 Cayuga 4.20 Sherinn 4.50 Summer Sun 5.20 Lyric...
TWO schoolgirls have admitted starting a million-pound blaze at a Royton plastic storage warehouse. The youngsters, aged 12 and 14, pleaded guilty to arson caused by...
Date Published 03/12/2012
A ROYTON couple were robbed at gunpoint in a terrifying ordeal abroad. Shafaat and Fauzia Chaudhry were ambushed by masked men moments after leaving Karachi Airport in...
A SINGER is back at the microphone five years after severely damaging his voice in a near-fatal road accident. Sam Johnson (40) headlined his first concert with his brother in...
