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NEW mums are being encouraged to help make Oldham more eco friendly by ditching the disposables and opting for real nappies. The council will run a month-long series of events...
Date Published 17/09/2009
Time is running out for small businesses in Oldham to bid into a £5 million pot for grants to protect against crime. Oldham is one of 50 areas nationwide where business...
NORDIC walking and photo-orienteering are some of the highlights of the second and final week of the South Pennines Walk and Ride festival. Starting tomorrow, there will be a...
A SAFETY campaign has been launched to protect aerial installers from injuring themselves when the digital switchover goes live on November 4. The Health and Safety Executive...
MOTOR-CYCLE enthusiasts are invited to a show hosted by the Road Wizards MCC on Sunday. The event will be held at Greenfield Conservative Club, Chew Valley Road, 11am-4pm....
MEMBERS of Boarshurst Silver Band will swop blowing horns for pulling pints at a beer festival to mark their 160th anniversary. The festival will be held at Boarshurst Band...
Great-grandmother Alice Mann enjoyed a champagne reception to mark her 100th birthday. Alice was surrounded by friends and family as well as Oldham Mayor Councillor Jim...
Drivers can have a gleaming car and raise money for charity at special so-called “soapy days” this weekend. Firefighters in Oldham and Chadderton are taking part...
A BRAVE fund-raiser will tackle the Great North Run later on Sunday in memory of his step-son who died from a rare epilepsy-related condition. Simon Howard, of Shaw, will run...
TERRITORIAL Army officers are limbering up for their annual charity truck-pull to Manchester on Saturday. Members of the 75 Engineer Regiment will be waved off from...
Council survey I SHOULD have known it was going to be a rum night when we started the meeting with calypso (rum, calypso, please yourself) music and a DVD. Mercifully...
MY mother was just about the most peaceful person you could meet . . . well, unless she thought you were reading your copy of The Buster rather than getting ready for school....
DEDICATED Chris Peirson has helped to transform the lives of some of the borough’s most vulnerable children. But the modest senior deputy head teacher at Oldham’s...
SIXTEEN people have been arrested, 10 cars seized and drugs recovered in a major crackdown on anti-social behaviour. Officers from the Oldham West Neighbourhood Policing Team...
Date Published 16/09/2009
RESIDENTS on an Oldham estate were left shocked after shots were fired in broad daylight as children returned home from school. Police were called to Furness Avenue in Alt at...
FORMER BAE Systems workers from Chadderton fear for their jobs after the defence giant announced plans to axe 1,100 posts and close one of its sites. Many people from the...
ATHLETIC have sanctioned the loan of Dale Stephens to Rochdale for a second month. The 21-year-old midfield player was allowed to leave Boundary Park because of a lack of...
JAMIE RUSSO has quit Oldham in a fit of pique after being left out of the side that faced Swinton at the weekend. The Australian centre originally joined the club from...
A furious pub landlord is demanding a speed clampdown on a narrow country lane where a pet dog died in its owner’s arms after being struck by a car. Shocked customers...
Sir Alex Ferguson shrugged off Wayne Rooney’s bad–tempered reaction to being substituted in Istanbul last night. The Manchester United striker was replaced after...
A senior councillor is demanding to know how much motivational speaker and mountaineer Joe Simpson was paid to speak to council staff — and if he was value for money....
STAFF from pubs and clubs have attended responsible alcohol training as Oldham continues to clean up its image. Oldham town centre’s reputation for binge-drinking and...
Full-back is focused ahead of late surge for glory PAUL Reilly isn’t letting the uncertainty over the club’s future have an adverse impact on his game. The...
WITH THE final home game of the season at Boundary Park just around the corner, the Roughyeds are set to record the lowest set of attendance figures since the winless season three...
GRAFFITI artists, rock climbers, disabled footballers, gardeners and Asian folk musicians have all scooped a slice of £70,000 They are among the 30 groups which have...
AN anti-tip campaigner has admonished a prospective parliamentary candidate and councillors for failing to attend a key public inquiry. Robert Knotts, committee member of the...
WE MADE a marked improvement last week against Swinton. We were much better in terms of gaining and keeping control of the game and when we needed to be tenacious, we were....
A disgruntled wine merchant has complained to the BBC after his shop was shown in the controversial “Panorama” programme which highlighted Oldham’s drinking...
ROYTON’S Scott Connor played alongside Lee Westwood, one of the world’s top players, in the Ping Golf Day at Little Aston, Sutton Coldfield. Westwood played a...
ANGEL Delight, Wagon Wheels, Findus Crispy Pancakes and Arctic Roll . . . its seems that we are all hankering after a taste of our childhood. Some commentators put the resurgence...
