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GARY Ellis has won every major title crown green bowls has to offer and banked tens of thousands of pounds in the process. So it comes as a huge surprise that bowling’s...
Date Published 24/12/2010
NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: OLDHAM Boro have Darren Scanlon available for selection after the striker returned from army duty. However, with Scanlon back for just three weeks, there...
FOOTBALL: OLDHAM Victoria have long been in danger of becoming this area’s forgotten football club, playing as they do out of the borough at Broadhurst Park in New Moston....
Non-league FOOTBALL: THREE postponed home matches in a row and a month-long absence from action at Seel Park has cost Evo-Stik League Division One side Mossley thousands of pounds...
ROBERTO Mancini has called on Mario Balotelli to replace his trademark scowl with a smile. It is a trait Mancini feels the 20–year–old must get rid of if he is to...
SIR ALEX Ferguson has hailed Sunderland’s recent win at Chelsea as “the perfect performance”. Ferguson sends table–topping Manchester United into...
A PUNISHING schedule of matches will test the mettle of every side in npower League One come the first month of next year. Recent postponements and rearranged games have left...
ATHLETIC’S players can rest easy on Christmas Day . . . after manager Paul Dickov decided against hauling them in for training. An inspection was set to take place at...
UNLUCKY Neal Trot-man is like a spare part at Athletic at the moment — but boss Paul Dickov is keen to keep hold of the Preston man to give him the opportunity to showcase...
Your Chronicle will be in the shops early this morning to make sure you have chance to get your hands on the local news and sport while getting your last-minute shopping. Don't...
OLDHAM will borrow pitch covers from the Rugby Football League in a determined attempt to stage the Law Cup with Rochdale Hornets at Whitebank on Sunday, January 2. The covers...
Date Published 23/12/2010
ATHLETIC have issued an urgent appeal to fans to get down to Boundary Park as soon as possible — armed with any snow-clearing equipment they can lay their hands on. The...
RUGBY: THE Rugby Football League has launched an online survey to give everyone the opportunity to have their say on a proposed summer-based pyramid structure for the sport....
RUGBY: IAN Smith has entered a new chapter of his rugby league career. At 45 years of age and after taking charge of Super League matches for a decade — no doubt earning...
MANCHESTER United striker Michael Owen has declared himself fit for the club’s Christmas fixtures. The former Liverpool and Newcastle United forward has been absent...
RUGBY: SNOW and ice put paid to last weekend’s amateur rugby league programme. Saddleworth Rangers, Oldham St Anne’s and Waterhead were once again thwarted by the...
A POOR home loss to Dagenham and Redbridge was the latest setback in a topsy-turvy season for Carlisle, Athletic’s opponents at Boundary Park on Boxing Day. Arriving...
IF ATHLETIC team bosses think things have been bad of late, they can console themselves with the thought that at least one side — Colchester United — have had it...
FORMER Athletic captain Sean Gregan has rubbished claims that he moved to Fleetwood Town for a big pay-day. Along with midfielder Jon Worthington, the 36-year-old is currently...
PAV’S PATCH: THEY say that if Christmas didn’t exist, it would have to be invented. Apparently, an unbelievable amount of trade goes on in December. Jewellers, for...
OLDHAM GP Hugh Sturgess is urging locals to pick up repeat prescriptions before surgeries close for Christmas. Cold weather and the seasonal rise in common complaints such as...
The girlfriend of a talented Google graphic designer who died from epilepsy yesterday paid tribute to a “funny, clever, light of my life”. Oldham-born Kyle McBride...
Opening up the west coast main line to competition is in danger of leaving Oldham’s commuters in the lurch, say local transport chiefs. Three private companies and the...
COUNCIL services will be scaled down between Christmas and New Year to save money. For the third year running, many facilities offered to the public will be pared back with...
POLICE in Greater Manchester have seized £2,258,937 from suspected criminals in 263 raids under the Proceeds of Crime Act in the last year. The legislation allows...
THIS baby hedgehog is dreaming of a cosy Christmas after he was rescued from a Chadderton garden. He — or it could be she — has settled into a warm cage for winter...
POLICE are appealing for help in tracking down arsonists who attacked Diggle Bowling Club. Club members watched in dismay on Tuesday night as the cabin used for storage...
Actor signs up to Labour campaign DI Lewis has backed a campaign against police cuts that could have Inspector Morse spinning in his grave. Actor Kevin Whately — who...
UP to 300 fire service jobs in Greater Manchester are under threat . Councillor Derek Heffernan, Oldham Council’s spokesman for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue...
Election 2011 A FIRM will be working over Christmas and the New Year to produce postal-vote packs for the January 13 by-election. Print Image Network Ltd, of Stockport,...
