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YORKSHIRE Day will this year be celebrated in Saddleworth on Sunday, July 29. Local brass bands will lead the parade up Uppermill High Street on the day to King George V...
Date Published 15/06/2012
METAL thieves have struck at an Oldham Church, causing thousands of pounds worth of damage. Shocked members of the Dob Lane Unitarian Chapel in Failsworth discovered raiders...
MICHAEL Meacher has confirmed he wants to stand again at the next election. The Oldham West and Royton MP, who has represented the borough since 1970, said he was more excited...
PROUD pupils have been selected to carry out a task of Olympic proportions. Eight students from Hodge Clough Primary School in Moorside will form a guard of honour at the...
Oldham Choral Society, Middleton Arena OLDHAM Choral Society extended the jubilee pageantry with a glorious concert version of two Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas,...
CRICKET: HEYSIDE and Bamford Fieldhouse are on a last-four collision course in the LCB Cup. Both teams are through to the quarter-finals. Heyside overcame Netherfield and...
CRICKET: WITH more rain forecast, Saddleworth Cricket League officials have drawn up contingency plans for this weekend’s cup ties. Second-round fixtures in the...
RUGBY: SADDLEWORTH Rangers ‘A’ secured local bragging rights in the Domino’s Pizza North-West Men’s League Division Four clash against their Waterhead...
RUGBY: A SODDEN surface at Peach Road put paid to Waterhead’s National Conference League Division Two fixture against leaders East Leeds. But it meant Patrick Toft...
RUGBY: WATERHEAD ARLFC and Jordan White, of Oldham St Anne’s, have been honoured by the British Amateur Rugby League Association. The Peach Road outfit are the BARLA...
Cricket: Skipper hits out at CLL over cup-tie player error CROMPTON feel they should be playing in Sunday’s John Willie Lees Wood Cup quarter-finals despite losing to...
DUMB SHOW, Coliseum company at Grange Arts Centre WE look at our tabloid press and point the finger about its disgustingly low ethical standards. Then we conveniently...
FRIENDS of Dunwood Park are inviting the public to join them in a spot of planting in conjunction with the Shaw park’s centenary year. Join in from 11am-3pm on...
“WHERE is Oldham town centre?” was the question from puzzled Metrolink passengers when trams arrived at Mumps yesterday. But it wasn’t all moans, as reporter...
Sheila hits out over wrong-spot wrangle A DISGRUNTLED pensioner has criticised local binmen who she claims “won’t go the extra yard”. Sheila Cartwright,...
AN Oldham lorry driver accused of causing the death of a police officer has had his case referred to Crown Court. Andrew Abernethy (45), of Rembrandt Walk, is charged with...
ANGLING: DARREN Stock made it five wins out of six matches with victory in the open matches on Hollingworth Lake. His groundbait feeder and red maggot accounted for 19lb...
Bowls: THE last place in the finals of the Oldham Evening Chronicle Bowling Handicap will be up for grabs on Sunday (6pm). Moorside stages the remaining qualifier after...
FOOTBALL: VAL Broadbent spoke of her pride at being handed the Clarrie Newman Memorial Trophy at the D & J Builders (North-West) Ltd Oldham Sunday League awards night....
CRICKET: HEYSIDE, skippered by Nick Campbell, have excelled in cup ties this season. Through to the last-eight of the LCB Cup after great wins over Chorley and...
RUGBY: AMATEUR rugby league fans are spoilt for choice tomorrow as all three local sides play at home in the National Conference League (all 2.30pm). Saddleworth Rangers...
OLDHAM RL reserves followed up their 16-10 win against Halifax at Whitebank by going to York last night and again conquering a Championship club, scoring six tries in a 36-16...
CRICKET: OLDHAM are hoping to give their Lake Garage CLL ambitions a boost with the acquisition of several new players. The loss of Craig Joy to Royton and Michael Birkett...
A phantom bread dumper is leaving bemused Ann Hilton without a crumb of comfort after tipping a mountain of loaves and rolls on grass opposite her home every day. A fresh...
THE Fonz dropped into a Chadderton school yesterday to spread some of his trademark confidence and positive thinking. But as the actor who played the legendary “Happy...
FORMER Latics captain Dean Holden is grieving for the loss of his 17-month-old daughter who has died from a rare blood infection during a family holiday. Cici Milly Holden...
Lib-Dems slump to third behind UKIP LABOUR has a record number of councillors after a landslide victory in last night’s Failsworth East by-election. Norman Briggs...
MARVELLOUS Michael Wild stormed to a brilliant 5-0 victory over six-time world champion Steve Davis in the Australian Goldfields Open qualifier — and was today up against...
LIVE Monday night football from Boundary Park will hit our TV screens in August. Sky Sports will televise Athletic’s Capital One Cup first-round tie against Sheffield...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards BATH 2.10 Pindar 2.40 Rebel Magic 3.15 Valmina 3.50 Jimmy Elder...
