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DEMOLITION work has started at an historic school building in Royton, seven years after it was closed. Crews began dismantling Byron Street Infant School this week after...
Date Published 15/02/2017
PIONEERING work around dementia in Oldham is featured in a new book that is being launched this week. 'Life Story Work with People with Dementia: Ordinary lives. Extraordinary...
A RARE Tornado fighter jet has been donated to the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service for their Training and Safety Centre. The Tornado will be involved in one of many...
JUDGING and short-listing has begun for the 2017 Oldham Business Awards and this year's process has been enhanced with workplace visits. Judging panels of three people have...
LIAM Thompson and Ben Davies, both out for several weeks with lower-back problems, could be pushing for recalls as early as this weekend, revealed Oldham RL coach Scott Naylor...
OLLIE Banks set up this latest victory early on and sheer bloody-mindedness saw it through to its conclusion. The midfielder's neat fourth-minute finish aside, this was not a...
DESPITE a slow start, Oldham Netball Club were comfortable 58-40 winners in the top-of-the-table clash at home to London team New Cambell, edging closer to regaining the Premier...
TALENTED potting siblings Ryan and Aaron Davies continue to make waves in snooker and pool. Ryan, aged 14, was in blistering form when he qualified in style for the finals of...
MANCHESTER City are waiting to learn how long Gabriel Jesus will be out for after confirming the striker has broken a bone in his foot. The Brazil international fractured a...
A HAT-TRICK from Louise Howard failed to help Oldham Ladies Hockey Club firsts to victory at home to Bolton Hockey Club, who had been level on points at the start of...
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ATHLETIC 1, CHARLTON 0 AN early goal from Ollie Banks settled an entertaining clash against a pacey Charlton side in Athletic's favour. The midfielder latched onto Chris...
Date Published 14/02/2017
SMASHING Lads guitarist Joe Whelan has been telling me how the brilliant lyrically-driven Saddleworth outfit are getting ready to put in an extra shift or two in the practise room...
REMEMBER the Visitors, the ace original Oldham rock n' roll band who were forced to call it a day last summer? Well, in a roundabout way, they're back, thanks to the news that...
A WORKER employed by an Oldham Labour councillor's building firm could have been killed when he fell 20ft from a scaffolding tower, fracturing his hip and both heels, a court was...
ENGINEERS are expecting to work on site for the rest of the week to repair damage to a footpath caused when a water main burst and flooded Oldham road on Sunday. United...
MR BUMP will show no fear of any scrapes or falls when he tackles the London Marathon for Children with Cancer UK. James Wright (46), of Royton, will tackle the 26-mile course...
MANCHESTER United stars teamed up with pupils to create art which will be sold to raise money for their school. Paul Pogba, Juan Mata, Marcos Rojo and Sergio Romero worked with...
ATHLETIC are becoming a team that opponents hate - but that's fine with manager John Sheridan. A new mean streak has shown through at SportsDirect.com Park and the battling,...
MOTORISTS can now park for free in Oldham town centre after the former Oldham Mumps Metrolink Park and Ride site was re-opened as a council car park. Oldham Council confirmed...
BOARSHURST Silver Band have paid tribute to an immense woman whose passing has left the club with a great feeling of loss. The Greenfield club paid tribute to their secretary...
HOUSES at the site of the former Durban Mill will be available on the market later this month. Planning permission was granted in 2016 for 80 rented houses at the site of the...
ON Thursday five candidates will battle it out for a seat on Oldham Council. The Failsworth East ward is up for grabs, after Jim McMahon decided to stand down from his...
A GREAT couple of days and nights of music and nostalgia are in store when the latest annual 'March of the Mods' weekender takes place on Friday and Saturday, March 3-4. With...
THEY'VE not been together 12 months yet, but already the bright lights could well be set to beckon for exciting collective Last Race Home. The locally-based six-piece...
A PRISON visitor tried to sneak drugs and phones into jail in a bag of crisps. Kane Lees (27), of Longley Street, Shaw, was seen passing a packet to inmate Stephen Lees, as if...
OLDHAM East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams has criticised the Government's plans to cut the widowed parent's allowance from April this year. Mrs Abrahams, who is also...
A WIDOW from Oldham whose husband died from cancer caused by exposure to asbestos, is appealing to those who worked alongside him decades ago for information. Mark Farrey, a...
FEARS that Oldham RL Club's back-row grafter and 2016 player of the year Liam Thompson could be out for a long time with a lower-back injury have been allayed. He hasn't played...
