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GOLF: DUKINFIELD have their eyes on a cup double after reaching both Oldham and District Golf League finals. Their ‘A’ team beat Brookdale 3-2 at Blackley with...
Date Published 20/07/2012
OLDHAM will need extra schools and more money for social care as the borough’s young and old population continues to rise. Oldham’s population has increased by 3.5...
GOLF: LISA Shea was the toast of Werneth after her triumph on Lady Captain’s Day at the Garden Suburb course. The 17 handicapper posted rounds of net 84 and 74...
A GROUP of bar workers stepped up to the mark to help out Shaw gas blast sufferers. Staff from the Up Steps Inn organised a fun run from the High Street pub to the Shay Wake...
Opening 66 paves way for glory at High Barn CIARAN Doherty upstaged his elder brother and Bury club-mate Sean to win the Royton Sword by eight shots. The Lancashire County...
OLDHAM town centre’s floral displays certainly have the WOW factor — but is it enough to impress North-West in Bloom judges? Assessors arrived in the borough on...
ALL of Metrolink’s oldest trams will be replaced with new vehicles by 2014. Transport leaders voted to replace 12 of the 32 original T68 trams with the new...
SWIMMING: JESSICA Lloyd may be known as ‘Nemo’ to her teammates in the London 2012 squad, but the swimming starlet is determined to make a big impact in the pool...
POLICE now believe vandals on a wrecking spree in Royton and Crompton used a catapult, not an air rifle. Windows were broken and cars damaged over several nights in Low Green,...
JAMIE Heaton’s heartbroken mum wept as she read a poem during the funeral of her two-year-old son. Little Jamie Heaton was the only fatality in the Shaw explosion which...
Pair to be sentenced today A radicalised Muslim hairdresser from Oldham has been convicted of plotting terror attacks on the Jewish community in Manchester. Shasta Khan...
Oldham workers at their doomed Remploy factory yesterday ignored calls for a national strike, instead showing they have given up hope of salvaging their jobs. Despite 60 per...
DON'T rule out a couple of new faces at Athletic soon . . . but don't expect too many more than that. The block has been put on the chase for Charlton striker Leon Clarke by...
ATHLETIC chairman Simon Corney has said a public consultation over a brand new 3,000-capacity stand on the Broadway side of Boundary Park should happen in the next few weeks....
JASON Boults will make his 150th Oldham appearance in South Wales on Sunday — and he is determined to make it a milestone to remember. The durable front-rower has...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
The Heaton family said farewell to explosion victim Jamie yesterday with hundreds attending the Shaw funeral. ...there's more (click story)
AN overwhelming thumbs-up has been given to the transformation of Oldham’s old town hall into a cinema-led leisure complex. More than 400 people were in favour of blockbuster...
Date Published 19/07/2012
REMPLOY workers in Bardsley have gone on strike in a desperate bid to save their jobs. GMB and Unite members started their first day of action at 6am and will stage a 24-hour...
AS Athletic fly home from Portugal today, captain Dean Furman believes the trip has succeeded in bringing the squad closer together. The 24-year-old midfielder, who played in...
INTERNET users at Oldham Library and Gallery Oldham have been cut off by Metrolink contractors who cut through a fibre optic cable. Library staff fear the service may not be...
AN Oldham woman who dreamed of life in the Spanish sunshine saw the dream collapse after suffering an injury at work. Karen Hughes and her husband left England in 2000 to...
WATERHEAD’S Carl Sneyd has signed for Oldham in a surprise move. The ex-Rochdale and Swinton player will debut for the reserves at Whitebank tonight (7.45pm) in a top-three...
CRICKET: CLUBS who finish in the bottom half of this year’s Lake Garage CLL may not end up in a lower division after all. For the first time in the league’s...
CRICKET: FORMER England captain Michael Vaughan and several of his team-mates in the national team will play in a special match at Royton CC next month. A Royton first X1...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards PONTEFRACT 6.25 Twlight Pearl 7.00 Maid Of Meft 7.35 Oldjoesaid 8.10...
MATTHEW CHAMBERS, at the Latics training camp in Portugal PLENTY of preconceptions were shattered on this trip. The idea, for example, that Athletic’s squad were...
FINGERS are again being crossed among the hierarchy at Athletic, with reports emerging of an impending bid from Real Madrid for Micah Richards. The Manchester City right-back...
Date Published 18/07/2012
OLDHAM Rugby League Club are hoping to bring in a new face to play in the reserves against runaway leaders Featherstone at Whitebank tomorrow night (kick-off 7.45pm). The club...
THE people of Shaw are preparing to pay their respects at gas blast victim Jamie Heaton’s funeral tomorrow. The two-year-old had been watching television in the front room...
