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GOLF: ANDY Allen regrouped after a “shocking” first nine holes to clinch victory in the Oldham and District Championship on home soil. The 36-year-old denied...
Date Published 13/07/2012
CRICKET: WERNETH’S Lees Bitter Twenty20 Competition quarter-final against Milnrow will be held tomorrow night, not Friday. The game was due to be played last Friday,...
Taylorsteel (North West), of Oldham, part of the Barrett Steel Group, has increased output and cut time from order to dispatch from six to two days by installing a Kasto circular...
Nicola White fights off a challenge from South Korea's Hyelyoung Han during the Visa International Invitation Tournament. Great Britain star Nicola’s tribute to her teachers...
ONE of the rising stars of the Labour Party has Oldham party members and business leaders the borough has to make the most of Metrolink. Chuka Umanna, the Shadow Business...
THE annual Chadderton Day takes place in Foxdenton Park from noon to 4pm on Saturday. It will be opened by Oldham’s mayor Councillor Olwen Chadderton and her consort,...
THESE gorgeous girls and handsome boys did Newman College proud on its first proms night. Students from the Royton campus celebrated at Village Ashton, wearing some fabulous...
RUGBY: AN uplifting look at Oldham’s rugby league history comes to Gallery Oldham on Saturday. Oldham Rugby League Heritage Trust’s ‘Art in Rugby’,...
AN evening with popular Radio Manchester presenter Allan Beswick aims to raise funds for the Oldham Distress Fund. Tickets, priced £10, for the event at Playhouse2 in...
RUGBY: OLDHAM St Anne’s went down to a 32-20 defeat at neighbours Rochdale Mayfield in North-West Men’s League Division Two. Basement boys Saints are still...
EMOTIONAL teenagers bid adieu to their school years as they danced the night away at Hotel Smokies Park. Pupils from Failsworth Sports College enjoyed a night of food, frolics...
CRICKET: ROYTON CC have enlisted the help of star players from Lancashire County Cricket Club and two local leagues in a bid to raise money for the family of Shaw gas-blast...
CRICKET: DELPH had some cheer at the weekend in the Earnshaw Cup, thanks to a remarkable last over from young seamer Daniel Jones. Defending 190 for five, the club’s...
A RENEWED appeal for witnesses has been made following the Shaw zebra crossing tragedy in January. Lynn Steele (63) died and her husband Raymond (65) suffered serious head...
CRICKET: LOCAL cricket clubs are seeing money go down the drain after weeks of rain. Last Friday’s deluge wiped out three games in Division One of the Versasteel...
OLDHAM-BORN professor Brian Cox has received a prestigious award for his contribution to science. The 44 year old, best known as the presenter of BBC Two series “Wonders...
City’s kit boss and former Latics star on City’s Austrian trip SUNSHINE and thunderstorms have been the backdrop to Manchester City’s stay in Austria so far...
OLDHAM Mountain Rescue team snapped this picture of a raging torrent flooding through Ashway Gap at Dovestone reservoir. The constant downpours are putting massive strain on...
IF boys never grow out of their toys then Alex Bidolak is proof that childhood passions can become a career. The self-confessed “Lego geek” has his dream job...
OLDHAM Mela organisers face a £3,000 bill to mend a shattered historic gatepost hit by a lorry at the weekend party. The accident, shortly before 9am on Sunday, involved...
A PRIVATE children’s home for youngsters with emotional, behavioural and mental health problems is closing after an “inadequate” rating by Ofsted Local...
OLDHAM Rugby League Club’s Whitebank Stadium, a regular target for vandals, has been hit again. Emergency services were at the ground after it was reported that trees...
VEHICLES and properties were targeted by BB pellets during a two-hour rampage by a lone drive-by gunman. The shots were fired between 11pm on Monday and 1am yesterday along...
Oldham DJ Nick Grimshaw says its a dream come true to take over the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show from Chris Moyles in September. Nick (27) — known to listeners as “Grimmy” — is...
THE FRIDAY THING: YOU have to hand it to the Lib-Dems (no, I don’t mean a hand grenade, though...) when it comes to making a selfish pig’s ear of things they certainly...
Angling: AFTER winning the star-studded Blundells Open, beating full-time angler Kieran Rich, Aiden Bordiak (Tight Lines Shaw) moved on to the Chadderton Mill AC evening...
CELEBRATE Greenfield Primary School’s centenary this weekend. The two-day event will commemorate the life and work of the school since its opening on July 13, 1912,...
RUNNING: OLDHAM and Royton Harrier Adam Howard roared his way into the semi-final of the English Schools Championships. Competing in the inter-boys 800 metres category for...
BOWLS: GREATER Manchester women, who top their group after three wins in as many matches, take on Derbyshire on Sunday (2pm). Local players in action in the away leg at...
A SADDLEWORTH chart-topper got the shock of her career when one of her musical heroes called her — while she was shopping!. On the other end of Jodie Connor’s...
