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FOOTBALL: Mossley’s 1-0 win against Radcliffe Borough in the first round of the UniBond League Challenge Cup could hardly have been more dramatic. Only seconds of...
Date Published 23/09/2009
GOLF: THREE members of the Rowbotham family claimed top honours on finals day at WERNETH. Father Paul was first in the winner’s enclosure when he secured a 5 & 4...
WOMEN’S GOLF: HELEN SLOAN was the winner of the September Pendant at BLACKLEY with a score of 87-12-75. Runner-up in the EWGA medal was Margery Cox (112-36-76) while...
SPORTS BETTING: OLDHAM’S rugby league players have already performed a minor miracle to shrug off the loss of key personnel at a vital stage in their Co-Operative...
RUGBY UNION: Oldham ‘A’ scored an emphatic 58-0 victory against Old Bedians which was sweet revenge for last season’s two defeats against the same opposition....
FOOTBALL: A DEVASTATING opening spell from Uppermill under-12s set up an emphatic win at early-season leaders Gomersal and Cleckheatonin the Huddersfield and District Junior...
MIKE TAYLOR scored after just NINE seconds as Chadderton Juniors FC under-16s maintained their 100-per-cent start to the Tameside and District Junior League season. The young...
New move to solve 20-year riddle of Laurence’s gruesome murder DETECTIVES have reopened a brutal Oldham murder case in the hope of solving a 20-year mystery....
A DRIVER who died after crashing a stolen car into a lamp post had repeatedly broken an ASBO. Matthew Fricker suffered fatal injures in the smash in Oldham Road, Denshaw, on...
MYSTERY still surrounds why two men — who police suspect are behind the murder of Amran Khan — were bizarrely pulled out of the River Mersey in Cheshire on Sunday....
Two van couriers staged a “sham” robbery of thousands of blank passports and visas “of huge potential value to criminals”, a jury was told yesterday....
THE Railway Inspectorate has ordered tram bosses who will bring Metrolink to Oldham to review safety procedures after city centre tracks were allowed to deteriorate so much that a...
THE number of struggling schools in Oldham where pupils are not getting five good GCSEs has fallen. Under the National Challenge initiative, every school in the UK must have...
Christmas lights are going up in Oldham ready for the November 15 switch-on and it’s only September. Shops are also selling Christmas goodies. And research for Asda says...
TRAFFIC in the town centre was stopped last night when a man threatened to jump from the Oldham Way flyover. Police were called to the footbridge just before 6pm after the man...
A new rapid response service designed to stamp out the bane of motorists, cyclists and pedestrians, has been unveiled by Oldham Council. Holes in the road are one of the most...
A THREE-YEAR-OLD girl suffered burns after her hair caught fire from a scented candle. The girl had been playing in the hallway of her house in Angelico Rise, Moorside, when...
A FOOTBALL club is demanding to know how the money to overhaul run-down playing fields in Chadderton has been spent. Council chiefs received £280,000 from the Highways...
FIRE-fighters cleaned up a staggering £2,914 in aid of injured colleagues. Crews from Oldham and Chadderton got up to their elbows in soapy suds when they spruced up...
BRASS band lovers will be in for a major treat on Saturday when one of the world’s most famous bands visits Saddleworth. The legendary Grimethorpe Colliery Band, whose...
The first public display of unique items created in secret by British prisoners of war is on show at the Imperial War Museum North. It includes the cap worn by Jimmy James at...
OLDHAM will receive a share of £4.75 million to help separated parents and lessen the impact on children. The money will be used to improve the co-ordination of...
A BUDDING nine-year-old actor from Shaw has just got his big break after landing a role in “Hollyoaks Later”. Harrison Rhodes, from Knowl Road, has scooped a top...
Oldham Council’s work to help beat the recession has been on the agenda at the Liberal Democrat’s Bournemouth conference. Council leader Howard Sykes joined Vince...
FROM the Atlantic to Canada and Spain to Scotland — former Hathershaw School pupils will come from far and wide to reunite with old friends. When Nigel Marland and Keith...
Tour takes in union Street’s historic building He was called Horatio Nelson... not the naval hero, but the man who helped to found Oldham’s Lyceum school of...
Rugby: SHAW Rhinos under-16s came out on top in the local derby against Saddleworth Rangers, winning 22-14. After an even opening, the home side broke the deadlock through Sam...
ACTRESS Suranne Jones brought a touch of extra glamour to the opening of a Royton beauty salon. Scruples Beauty Lounge, in Rochdale Road, is offering some unique treatments...
AN innovative exhibit designed and built by EDM — allowing visitors to walk through a Formula 1 racing car engine — has been on display at the legendary Nurburgring...
PROFITS at Vindon Healthcare, the former Saddleworth business now based at Kingsway Business Park, Rochdale, slumped by 40 per cent in the six months to June 30. Customers...
