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OLDHAM Police are urging people to stay safe as they combat criminal activity in the town centre over the festive period. During the Christmas period the town centre...
Date Published 03/11/2016
GREENFIELD Brass Band will show off their talents when they battle other bands to show they have the brass factor. The Greenfield band will be one of six to entertain audiences...
OLDHAM'S Olympic hockey hero Nicola White was the guest of honour at Hathershaw College's annual presentation evening. Nicola, who won gold in Rio, was joined at the Queen...
POLICE investigating an abduction in Oldham have located the victim and arrested a man. At around 2.50pm on Monday, a 16 year-old-girl was on Shaw Road when a man in a silver...
CUP hero of the past Carl Winchester is looking back to his best days while hoping to make his future with Athletic a success. One of two survivors of the side which famously...
THE Failsworth crest which sits in the gardens near the historic Pole landmark has been subjected to criminal damage. A resident highlighted the plight of the coat of arms,...
TOMMY Rowe has been one of the prime architects in Doncaster's revival this season, but the good news for Athletic is that he won't be involved in the FA Cup first-round tie on...
HOSPITAL officials are looking for help to trace the relatives of a man who died in the Royal Oldham Hospital on June 6. James Brian Dearden, aged 81, is known to have lived in...
BREAKING THE CODE Royal Exchange, Manchester (to Saturday, November 19) THERE are two universal languages at work in Hugh Whitemore's theatrical look at the life and...
BILLY Mckay admits that Athletic's campaign to date has not gone to plan either personally or from the team's perspective, but he fully believes there is plenty of time still to...
A HECTIC and increasingly successful 2016 just got even better for Oldham referee Robert Hicks when he won the First Utility Super League Referee of the Year award for the first...
MANCHESTER United manager Jose Mourinho will not be on the touchline for Sunday's Premier League game at Swansea after accepting two Football Association misconduct...
SERGIO Aguero claims the key to Manchester City's famous victory over Barcelona was pretending they were playing a different team. City finally turned the tables on the Catalan...
JOSE Mourinho has ended Bastian Schweinsteiger's exile from the Manchester United first team as it was the right thing to do on both a human and professional level. It had...
OLDHAM'S sporting heroes will be on parade at The Point, Emirates Old Trafford, tomorrow for the 2016 Greater Manchester Sports Awards. The awards will see the local winners...
Adam Holland is the youngest person to have run 100 marathons – and he has held the record for the fastest ten marathons run in ten days. Surprisingly then, the marathon ultra...
Date Published 02/11/2016
PILATES, baking and balloon decorating aren’t just for pupils at Hathershaw College: the teachers are getting stuck into extra-curricular activities too! Staff have signed up...
They say travel broadens the mind – and Lauren Rowe can certainly confirm that after taking six months out of her studies to live and work in Nepal and India. Working as a...
New students at Oldham Sixth Form College have been learning one of their most valuable lessons ever – how to save a life. Around 60 A-level health and social care students...
OLDHAM'S motorists are continuing to flout the law by using mobile phones while driving - despite numerous campaigns and crackdowns against the deadly practice. The...
A PAIR of lucky kittens have been rescued after they were dumped in the undergrowth. The abandoned ginger and white siblings were discovered under a bush on a Chadderton estate...
THE Mayor of Oldham Councillor Derek Heffernan visited parks staff this week to congratulate them on helping the borough to retain its prestigious North-West in Bloom best city...
FINAL arrangements for Oldham's eagerly anticipated bonfire spectacular at Oldham Edge tomorrow have been confirmed. Oldham Council's free "Big Bang" event, taking...
DO you recognise any of the faces in these pictures? Perhaps you are one of the people in the photographs. Steve Cullen is hoping to meet former colleagues from Park Cake...
Selections for tomorrow's meetings - CHELMSFORD: 4.40 Odelouca, 5.15 Acertwo, 5.50 Brasted, 6.25 Erhaaf (n.b), 7.00 Wealth Tax, 7.30 Firmdecisions, 8.00 Port Isaac. MARKET...
A HALLOWE'EN party was a treat not a trick for youngsters who had a spookily good time. The Oddies Bar, in Union Street, Royton, held the event for children, which included...
OLDHAM Sixth Form College has retained its good rating after a two-day inspection by Ofsted. And the education watchdog - which visited at the end of September - says the...
ARRESTS have been made after police discovered a cannabis farm in Greenfield yesterday. Cannabis and cannabis plants were seized from an address in Beech Avenue when a drugs...
COLOURFUL displays of food and fireworks celebrated Diwali in Oldham last night. The Indian Association Oldham marked the festival of lights at the Hindu temple on Schofield...
A SCOUTHEAD couple has scooped a top award in a green-fingered contest launched by a major pub company. Landlord of The Three Crowns Inn and Restaurant, Ray Hicks and his wife...