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"APPRENTICE" tycoon Lord Sugar is set to become a star of the stage thanks to a Lees playwright. Daniel Thackeray, an Oldham Coliseum favourite, brings a clash of...
Date Published 25/05/2012
Stamford professional Mark Smith has been working hard with his club to encourage more women into playing golf. He came up with the idea after giving regular golfing lessons...
Angling by JAN VERBRUGGEN BERNARD Lees was the winner of the Oldham Central AC’s match on Bradshaw’s number six lake. Employing the 11-metre pole with pellet...
AVRO are reflecting on a trophy-laden season. The Bridgewater Office Supplies Manchester League outfit lifted the Manchester County FA Challenge Trophy after beating East...
THE Oldham Sunday League narrowly lost out in the inaugural Inter-League Michelle Bamford Memorial Trophy clash with the Rochdale and District Sunday League. They were beaten...
BOWLS CHADDERTON Cot’s Brian Raynor will begin the defence of his Oldham Evening Chronicle Bowling Handicap title at Moorside next Friday. The opening night of this...
LOCAL ATHLETICS OLDHAM and Royton Harriers were out in force in the junior and senior races at the BUPA Great Manchester Run. In the junior race, Molly Healey was a superb...
ATHLETIC may head down the Spanish route on recruitment this summer. Manager Paul Dickov spent a couple of days observing sessions at the Ciudad Real Madrid training complex....
AN Oldham business was hoping to win huge orders in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates this week during the Automechanika Show, the world’s leading trade fair for the...
RUMOURS are rife that Metrolink trams will running in Oldham next month. But Oldhamers are being kept in the dark about the opening date as transport chiefs say nothing has...
PLAYING fields in Failsworth and Saddleworth are set to get royal protection when they are renamed in honour of the Queen. Residents have been trying for more than two years...
HELP is at hand for the victims of fires and other emergencies in the crisis period following an incident, thanks to a group of volunteers who have teamed up with Greater...
AN AMBITIOUS young mum who swopped flipping burgers for fitting bathrooms is leading a campaign to launch part-time courses at Oldham College. Jodie Walvin, from Failsworth,...
DANCE divas at Waterhead Academy will perform at Twickenham Stadium ahead of the Aviva Premiership Rugby Final tomorrow. A total of 50 pupils, dancers and banner-carriers,...
THE renovation of Oldham’s legendary Coliseum Theatre is well under way. The Fairbottom Street venue is producing theatre at various venues across the borough during the...
THE police watchdog has raised concerns about “errors” in a pursuit in which an Oldham teenager died when his car hit a tree. The Chronicle reported on Monday how...
OLDHAM’S Liberal Democrats have revealed who will make up its council shadow cabinet for the following year. Councillor Howard Sykes will continue as leader and be the...
THERE are more young people not in school, work or training in the North-West than any other region. There are now 157,000 young people aged 16 to 24-years-old dubbed...
BELEAGUERED businesses battered by the recession and Metrolink work are pleading for the council’s help. The red flare from traders on Yorkshire Street, Union Street,...
WE the undersigned traders of Yorkshire Street, Union Street, George Street and High Street urgently require action from the council to help offset the devastating combined effect...
A CRUMBLING Oldham school has been awarded cash from a new £2 billion rebuilding pot — but another has missed out. Education Secretary Michael Gove said...
A TEENAGER without a driving licence drove his ex-girlfriend’s car into a wall while over the drink-drive limit. But Raja Ali-Baseer (19), of Warcock Road, Clarksfield,...
The Saddleworth company tasked with providing translators to courts and tribunals will be monitored daily after failing to meet targets, the Ministry of Justice said today....
OLDHAM Council has addressed claims that racist incidents in the borough’s schools have increased by more than 40 per cent. A BBC study, reported in yesterday’s Chronicle,...
A YOUNG winger from Halifax is the latest player to join Oldham RL on loan. Chris Holroyde, who trained with his new team-mates for the first time last night, goes straight...
RUGBY LEAGUE’S MAGIC WEEKEND ST HELENS utility forward Mark Flanagan will not want for motivation when he makes his first Magic Weekend appearance against his former...
FRESH from sitting their SATs, South Failsworth School pupils are set for another stern test when they play at Wembley tomorrow. Eight talented youngsters take on opposition...
TWO goal-getters with Athletic connections will go head-to-head tomorrow in the npower League One play-off final between Huddersfield Town and Sheffield United at Wembley (3pm...
Versasteel Saddleworth and District Cricket League by KEVIN RICHARDSON AFTER going a year without a win, Moorside are gunning for a third straight victory in the Versasteel...
CLL CRICKET PREVIEW by KEITH McHUGH CROMPTON skipper Carl Taylor was left to reflect on what might have been as his team suffered a weekend of heartbreak. The Glebe Street...
