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THE man accused of leaving a pensioner for dead after an alleged bag-snatch in Shaw has denied robbing and violently attacking her. Former addict Mark Royle (37) repeatedly...
Date Published 31/07/2012
A 12-YEAR-OLD cyclist is being treated for serious head injuries after a crash in Failsworth. The young boy was in collision with a silver Volkswagen Golf on Oldham Road, near...
Oldham Council has moved to quell complaints about the isolation of the new Metrolink station at Mumps by launching a free shuttle bus. And on its maiden service yesterday,...
LEE Croft, who lines up against his old club Manchester City in tonight’s big pre-season game (7.45pm kick-off), reckons he is on the way back to full fitness. The...
Hockey: OLDHAM’S Nicola White is part of the Great Britain side looking to get the better of Korea today in Pool ‘A’ (4pm). The former Hulme Grammar...
THERE will be nobody in the ground at Boundary Park tonight for whom the game against Manchester City is more special than Athletic’s manager Paul Dickov. A veteran of...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards GOODWOOD 2.00 Defence Of Duress 2.35 Ghurair (nb) 3.10 Frankel...
POLICE have discovered one of the “biggest and most sophisticated” cannabis farms of its kind in a terraced house in Oldham. Officers say there were hundreds of...
Date Published 30/07/2012
Police were today continuing to question a man after a stabbing in Abbeyhills on Thursday night. Officers were called to Cottage Gardens at 11.45pm after reports a man had...
WATERHEAD Rugby Club has hit the jackpot with a lottery grant to create a new changing room. The club has scooped £43,900 from Sport England’s Inspired Facilities...
ATHLETIC’S reworked defensive line-up will be tested to the limit tomorrow when a Manchester City side bursting with attacking energy arrives at Boundary Park. The...
WITH four league games left with which to push for a play-off spot, Oldham have waved farewell to Colton Roche and Daniel Smith. Roughyeds boss Tony Benson wanted to keep the...
Diggle star’s key role as GB fifth in relay DIGGLE'S Jessica Lloyd shone as Great Britain's 4x100 metres freestyle relay swimmers reached the final and finished fifth....
Royton's Joe O'Regan did not have a successful first Olympics appearance. He was in the Great Britain water polo outfit which lost 13-4 to Romania. Team GB knew their...
FORMER Hulme Grammar School pupil Nicola White was part of the Great Britain hockey side which got off to a flying start with a 4-0 victory over Japan in Group 'A'. Alex...
FLEETWOOD 1 ATHLETIC 3 A TRIO of smart strikes engineered by the class of Lee Croft and smartly finished twice by captain Dean Furman and by Robbie Simpson helped Athletic...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards BEVERLEY 2.25 Excellent Mariner 2.55 Emperors Waltz 3.30 Eeny Mac...
Top Tots is back… It’s free and it’s coming soon with over £2000 worth of prizes to be won! One of the Chronicle’s most popular free competitions,...
AN Oldham construction company won a top award at the National Federation of Builders inaugural awards gala. The achievements of eight national winners and nine highly...
Date Published 27/07/2012
PIE maker Mark Bradley has been recognised at the annual British Pie Awards. Mr Bradley, from Lees, received two silver awards, one for his pork and Bury black pudding variety...
ANGLING: BERNARD Lees took first place in the latest Oldham Central AC match, fished on Cudmore’s Brewster Lake, with 16 metre pole and pellet accounting for 48lb 6oz of...
THE FRIDAY THING: WHILE looking forward to the Olympics (the real games not the made-up nonsense to keep sponsors happy) I cannot escape a sense of irony about all the warm,...
RUNNING: ROYTON Road Runners roared to victory in the men’s team race in the Moonraker 10k race in Middleton. The absence of club champion Ian McBridge did not prevent...
BOWLS: TONGE gave their Manchester Premier League title claims a major boost with a whitewash of Warrington side Pierpoint and Bryant. In a top v bottom clash, Tonge won...
SADDLEWORTH Cricket Club members helped to raise a whopping £10,300 for the Heaton family, who lost their two-year-old son, Jamie, in the Shaw blast. They took on a...
CRICKET: WOODHOUSES will be confident of a maximum points haul when they host Dukinfield in Lees Brewery Lancashire County League Division One tomorrow. The struggling...
THE White Rose will be out in force on Sunday when Saddleworth marks Yorkshire Day. The event begins at 11.15am when a brass band performs at Saddleworth Museum gardens in...
CRICKET: THERE are no prizes for guessing the pick of this weekend’s fixtures in Versasteel Saddleworth and District Cricket League Division One. Leaders Uppermill hit the...
FORMER Oldham Coliseum artistic director Patrick “Paddy” Masefield has lost his battle with cancer. The 69-year-old grandfather-of-three spent a controversial...
ROYTON’S Mark Doyle came home with three medals. from the Great British Open Karate Championships in Urmston The 22-year-old clinched the creative and traditional...
