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TOTTENHAM legend Ossie Ardiles believes the White Hart Lane club are on the brink of breaking into the Premier League’s elite. As Spurs prepare for Sunday’s visit...
Date Published 14/01/2011
DANNY Whitmore is back in the Oldham RL squad at Featherstone tomorrow as the battle to win the Roughyeds’ hooking job starts in earnest. Four candidates will be chasing...
FOOTBALL: THE New Year is off to a perfect start for Chadderton FC, after the Vodkat North-West Counties League Division One outfit received a £40,000 windfall. A...
DEFENDER Jean-Yves Mvoto’s loan deal has been terminated after it was revealed he will be out for several months because of ankle ligament damage. Mvoto, who had struck up a...
ATHLETIC midfielder Dean Furman has revealed every member of the squad is desperate to play at Plymouth Argyle tomorrow in a bid to make amends for the 6-0 defeat to Southampton....
THE FRIDAY THING: NOW that it’s all over, the winner has gone off to be measured for the House of Commons uniform and the losers back to doing their day job. So, who do...
Water is all around us, among the most abundant material we encounter (and pouring copiously from the sky as I write this). It is essential for life as we know it, as the...
Rock chick to reverend — now for another adventure A WOMAN who has helped thousands cope with the loss of a loved one is making an emotional farewell to Oldham. The...
A GROUP of fund-raisers will get their just desserts on Saturday, when they hop into a bath full of cold custard. Rose Bond, landlady at the Old Grey Mare, Royton, will have...
OLDHAM sports star Becky Jones, who is stranded in the Austalian floods, fears the death toll could be worse than first thought. It currently stands at 25, with many more...
A FAILSWORTH football fan has been given a weekend curfew after breaking a banning order for the third time. Oldham magistrates ordered Josh Welden (23), of James Street, to...
Specialist police team arrests Ronnie Wallwork A FORMER Manchester United footballer from Failsworth has been arrested on suspicion of stealing motor vehicles. Ronnie...
PRISONERS held at Oldham Magistrates’ Court had to be transferred to Tameside following a power cut. Court staff were left trapped in the building after a fault in an...
WATERHEAD Academy pupils have ripped open their GCSE English language and maths results — seven months early. The 281 teenagers were among those across the country who...
A CHADDERTON shopkeeper wrestled a balaclava-clad armed gang during an attempted robbery on January 7. Three men armed with guns and an unknown weapon threatened the...
THIEVES armed with a handgun stole cash from the Junction Inn pub, in Ripponden Road, at around 10.40pm on Tuesday. Two men forced their way through the door after knocking on...
COMMUNITIES Secretary Eric Pickles has defended cuts to council grants as the axe hangs over 800 jobs at Oldham Council. On a visit to Oldham, the Conservative Minister blamed...
Debbie Abrahams’ historic victory was applauded by veteran Labour MP Michael Meacher, and neighbouring MP David Heyes. Mr Meacher, who last year celebrated 40 years in Oldham...
UKIP candidate Paul Nuttall was celebrating after snatching fourth place from the BNP The party’s vote increased since the May General Election while the BNP lost nearly1,000...
DISAPPOINTED Tory Kashif Ali saw his votes slump from almost 12,000 at the General Election to 4,481, and stayed in third place. But he denied it was down to lack of support...
ELWYN Watkins said that he had stood up for what he believed in after failing to win the historic by-election that he triggered. And he is yet to decide if he will continue to...
Chronicle election team: Richard Hooton, Karen Doherty, Janice Barker, Anika Bourley and Darren Robinson LABOUR’S Debbie Abrahams said she was “absolutely proud” to create...
Oldham’s first woman MP in Labour landslide LABOUR’S Debbie Abrahams made history by becoming Oldham’s first ever female MP as the Tory vote collapsed. The national...
Get to the shops now and get your early-morning Chronicle for unrivalled coverage of Labour's Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election victory - or register to read the eChron...
PAV’S PATCH: IT’S funny how hearing a particular piece of music can transport you back to a time and place. You can instantly remember what you were doing and who you...
Date Published 13/01/2011
MARIE Curie Cancer Care is appealing for help from kind-hearted Oldhamers keen to get fit. Organisers of The Great Manchester Run have re-opened the ballot for places for the...
AN Oldham MP has warned government the “rancid stink” over bankers’ bonuses will not go away as anger mounts in Westminster. The Government is coming under...
A PLEA to flash the cash to help revolutionise children’s services in Oldham has been sent out by a Shaw youngster undergoing treatment. Joe Witney whiled away some of...
Oldham born and bred Bert Priestley MBE, who devoted his life to helping others and charity work, has died aged 97. The great-grandad worked for Oxfam, Freedom from Hunger and...
OLDHAM Business Leadership Group has issued a last-minute reminder for those thinking about volunteering at the 2012 Olympic Games — do it today! That’s because...
