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A former Oldham Mayor has slammed plans to dramatically reduce bus services around Saddleworth. Richard Knowles ripped into the proposed revision of local bus times which...
Date Published 19/10/2012
RUGBY: A CONVERTED try 10 minutes before time knocked Hollinwood for six in Pennine League Division Five. Opponents Eastmoor Dragons ‘A’ dived in late on to...
COUNCILLORS have approved plans for the closed Warburton bakery in Shaw to be turned into smaller industrial units. Concerns about parking, deliveries and congesion aside,...
ATHLETIC youth team boss Tony Philliskirk called on his players to rediscover their shooting boots after edging another 1-0 win over Shrewsbury Town. The narrow victory was...
COUNCILLORS have approved plans for an “invisible” home to be built on a Delph hillside. The development will take advantage of new green-belt legislation allowing...
Oldham Planning Committee CONTROVERSIAL plans to allow a disused quarry to be developed for 61 houses were last night approved in a move that angered local councillors and...
The Latics striker - and midfield man - writes every week for Chron Sport OUR equaliser in the 1-1 draw at Sheffield United might have been in the dying seconds of injury...
Plans to redraw the political map of Oldham in an attempt to reduce the number of MPs across the country would see everyone in the borough represented by two politicians not three...
A group of youths who attacked a Royton man have come under fire from a police inspector. The 33-year-old man went outside his home in Oldham Road after a bottle had been...
A car salvage yard in Dewsbury has won a ruling forcing a rival Oldham-based company to hand over ownership of a website. Abdul Reasat’s company Dewsbury Auto Dismantlers took...
KIND-HEARTED pupils have raised more than £18,000 for charity in a year. Youngsters from Crompton House School have made a record £18,221 from a year of...
Comedian Rob Rouse will visit Saddleworth’s “Off The Rails” Comedy Club at the Royal George, Greenfield on his UK tour tomorrow. Doors open 7.30pm,...
Angling: CHRIS Oliver made no mistake from a good draw in the latest Todmorden AS members-only match on Croft. Using pole, pellet and meat, he tempted some decent-sized carp...
RUGBY UNION: OLDHAM RU firsts hope to kick-start their season with victory at home to in-form St Edward’s Old Boys tomorrow (3pm). Just one win from their opening...
THE FRIDAY THING: THERE have been screaming protests at an American-made film that is said to depict the Prophet Mohammed as a fool and a womaniser and a new threat to take those...
People in Lydgate have marked the village’s debt to its World War I heroes by erecting a special wall hanging in the parish hall. Dedication of the hanging was the culmination...
FOOTBALL: SANTOS crashed out of the Lancashire Cup after a 3-0 first round home defeat by Marsh United. They will look to bounce back with a positive result at Ardwick...
RESIDENTS are being urged to support the return of Oldham’s half marathon this weekend as around 300 runners tackle the gruelling route. Organisers of the charity race,...
DEMOLITION has begun at Oldham’s former Westhulme hospital site, but the future use of the 135-year-old site remains uncertain. An option is car parking for the Royal Oldham...
FOOTBALL: Failsworth Athletic 0, Famous King George ‘A’ 5 FAMOUS King George ‘A’ registered a nap hand of goals to book their place in the third...
THE results are in, the votes have been counted and verified and the time has now come to announce who has won the Chronicle Top Tots Competition this year has been fierce as...
An Oldham businessman accused of supplying a sub-machine gun used to kill a Salford shopkeeper is now waiting to hear his fate. THE jury in the Manchester Crown Court trial of...
RUNNING: CROMPTON House and Blue Coat will look to light up Blackpool after qualifying from the Greater Manchester heats of the English Schools Cross-Country Championships....
BROADWAY Celtic under-15s beat Ramsbottom United 5-3 in the North Bury League. On target were Aidan Mollittor, Tom Kershaw, Christopher Leonard, Alistair Robertson and Joe...
SPORTS BETTING: WE are barely a quarter of the way through the Premier League season and already the Sword of Damocles is hanging over an unhealthy percentage of...
Friends open therapy centre THREE friends from Shaw are living the dream . . . by opening their own business. The trio — Jan Hunt (59), from Shaw, Kim Reekie (41),...
NETBALL: OLDHAM’S Northern League girls brushed aside North West Jays 49-27 at Wright Robinson College. Shooter Amy Clinton (15) and goal attack Harriett Gill...
NETBALL: COACH Debbie Hallas saluted Laura Malcolm and Helen Housby after reigning champions Oldham kept up their 100 per cent start to the Premier League season. The duo...
9 TO 5, Opera House, Manchester, to October 20 As soon as Dolly Parton herself comes up larger than life and perky as ever on the large video screen, the course of this breezy...
CHADDERTON’s new Blessed John Henry Newman RC College has officially opened with a blessing by the Rt Rev Terence Brain, Bishop of Salford. The bishop met pupils and...
