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A BUSY road is set to close for a month to allow for vital repair work to retaining walls. Work has been taking place in Grains Road, which connects Delph village to Grains...
Date Published 20/08/2010
Oldham Athletic has made a new signing which is sure to score a winner for charity. The club has teamed up with Marie Curie Cancer Care, the Football League’s official...
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help transform a derelict school building in Higginshaw into a thriving community venue. Higginshaw Rugby Club is behind the exciting Higginshaw...
AN OLDHAM licensee called time on pulling pints yesterday after 42 years in the trade. Sylvia Diggle (63), who lives in Chadderton, was only 21 when her name first appeared...
DR PAULINE BALAAC senior lecturer in biology, School of Applies Sciences, University of Huddersfield a health warning must now be put on all food or drink containing certain...
Confetti, a web-based wedding supplies business founded in Chadderton in 1999, has gone into administration. Confetti was sold last week by Findel, which has premises in...
LIFE AND OTHER BITS: ANOTHER day, another new dawn with chief exec Charlie Parker saying that if we want a bigger, brighter and better Oldham we should stop talking the talk and...
THE TRAIL has gone cold for Athletic on their transfer-listed players. Joe Jacobson, Jon Worthington, Rob Purdie, Kelvin Lomax and Greg Fleming have all been made available to...
Date Published 19/08/2010
NORTHERN Ireland manager Nigel Worthington has hit back at Athletic boss Paul Dickov over striker Warren Feeney's injury. Dickov was unhappy that Feeney had played in a...
MANCHESTER City captain Carlos Tevez believes he can break through the 30–goal barrier for his club this season. Tevez is keen to get off the mark tonight when City face...
OLDHAM Roughyeds reserves will take on Widnes Vikings in a play-off clash on Saturday (1.30pm kick-off) at Widnes RU club. Coach John Hough travelled to York on Tuesday night...
THE ROUGHYEDS supporters' player of the year award is to be sponsored by the Chronicle. It means fans can have their say, through their local newspaper, on the one player they...
CRICKET: WITH only six matches to go and the battle for the Subsidiary Trophy about to start, officials at the 16 Lake Garage CLL clubs will be mulling over their seasons and...
CRICKET: GREENGATE capitalised on Friends’ open date by moving to the top of the Ashton and Oldham Cricket Alliance table with a maximum six-points win over Foresters....
CRICKET: MOORSIDE’S Armstrongs Office Furniture Saddleworth and District Cricket League season can be split into three neat sections. Part one: Unbeaten in their first...
ROYTON’S Joe Lovell is in the CLL colts’ squad for the final of the Reader Inter-League Cup against the Ribblesdale League at Middleton CC on Bank Holiday Monday,...
FOOTBALL: CHADDERTON clinched a 3-2 victory over visitors Rochdale Town in the Vodkat North-West Counties League division one. Daniel Shaw gave the hosts the lead after 14...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
Oldham’s sixth–formers were counting their lucky stars as they opened their A–level results today — but many more are hoping grades are good enough to...
A FUTURE in medicine awaits five-starred George Hulston. The shocked student, from Shepherds Way, Milnrow, scooped a magnificent five A* grades. The 18-year-old bagged top...
HULME Grammar School is celebrating a 100 per cent pass rate with 14 pupils achieving the new A* grade. Four students — Dean Brierley, Nathan Edge, Amy Bell and Latifa...
More than 3,300 families face eviction across Oldham because of deep cuts to housing benefit — unless their landlords agree to slash their rent. Almost nine in every ten...
OLDHAM’S hosepipe ban was lifted today after a deluge of rain brought relief to parched reservoirs. United Utilities has announced that the wet weather over the last...
Oldham Carnival 2010 hailed ‘best ever’ DELIGHTED organisers have hailed this year’s Oldham Carnival as the best yet. The People’s Carnival...
A THUG who bungled an armed raid on a newsagents tried to pretend the whole thing had been a joke, a court was told. Balaclava-clad Joshua White (20) burst into EMC Newsagents...
Two Oldham lawyers have been threatened with suspension from the profession and fined thousands of pounds for breaching solicitors’ rules. Sajit Maboob Abbas (34) and...
A 20-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed for two years after pleading guilty to two counts of assault following an attack on two men. Adam Carter (20), from Stag Pasture Road,...
A BUSY criminal is thought to have carried out 11 burglaries in less than four hours in Chadderton on Sunday morning. The burglaries took place between 2.30am and 6.20am on...
It’s elementary, my dear Watson, as Alex the meerkat investigates the Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221b Baker Street in London, and meets an old-fashioned London bobby. He was...
WITH Latics riding high at the top of League One, fans are doing their bit towards winning an unwanted accolade... The NHS carried out an online survey to find the...
