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Accolade for goal ace jordan A FORMER Heyside Juniors player is proving a big hit Down Under. Jordan Watson, who emigrated to Australia in 2007, is the Football Federation...
Date Published 09/09/2009
BROTHERS Joe and Mike Cassidy triumphed in the closing invitation at WERNETH after amassing 44 points in the four-ball betterball Stableford. Chris Cordwell and Steve Wild...
CROMPTON and Royton are celebrating after being awarded the prestigious ‘GolfMark’ accreditation in recognition of their hard work developing junior and beginners...
THE Oldham men’s darts team opened their Lancashire ‘Super Eights’ campaign with an impressive 7-3 home victory against Eccleston. The ‘Super...
OLDHAM Netball Club rounded off their successful tour of Australia with a 41-14 victory over Palm Beach in which Charlotte Hanna and Jess Retford were outstanding. The local...
THE final of the Oldham Veterans League’s Clayton Cup, between Norden and Springhead Libs, will be held tomorrow (1.30pm) at Werneth Cricket Club, rather than its original...
A 5-1 victory for Springbank B maintains their 100-per-cent record and keeps them clear at the top of the Oldham Amateur Snooker League. A 39 break by Nick Broadbent helped...
Racing Correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections for tomorrow: EPSOM 2.10 Art Summer 2.45 Five Cents 3.20 Seventh Cavalry 3.55 Sahaal 4.30 Ogre...
Cancer patient’s appeal for free parking A ROYTON grandmother who is battling breast cancer has made an impassioned plea for costly hospital parking charges to be...
NINE has always been Mary Brown’s lucky number and today the plucky pensioner turns 99 on 9/9/09. The independent great-grandmother, who lives in Crescent Road,...
WORK to make a notorious accident blackspot in Oldham safer is under way. Anti-skid surfacing, new signage and extra drainage gullies are being applied to the A672 Ripponden...
A MUMPS company has been fined £5,000 as part of a national crackdown in illegal scrapyards, Tanvir Rafiq (26), a director of Oldham Van Breakers Ltd, pleaded guilty to...
CHRIS Atherton, brother of former England cricket captain Mike Atherton, has been re-bailed by police until September 18. Atherton (38), from Failsworth, who plays cricket for...
DESPITE the Met Office wrongly forecasting a summer scorcher, even it may have been surprised by a snow storm in Failsworth yesterday. A dusting fell at Housing Units, thanks...
A FORMER gardener to Lord Heseltine turned to drink when his marriage ended, an Oldham inquest heard yesterday. As a child, Simon Timothy Evans was a skilled shotgun...
Dangerous lorries are being taken off the road in a specialist operation by police and transport managers. Officers from Greater Manchester Police and the Vehicle and Operator...
EMERGENCY services in Greater Manchester will mark 999 Day with a campaign to remind people how to make that all-important call. Police, fire and ambulance crews will take...
Police are appealing for witnesses to an arson attack on an empty house on Blakelock Street, Shaw, on Sunday. It is believed rubbish was set on fire upstairs between 11am and...
A man who got drunk and thought it would be funny to walk around with his pants down appeared in court for indecent exposure. Several women drivers were shocked by 21-year-old...
A PARISH council chairman left in a wheelchair after a car crash is appealing for kind-hearted walkers to help her raise money for charity. Shaw Parish Council’s...
THE skies above St James’ Church in Barry Street, Oldham, will be lit up when it celebrates the 180th anniversary of its consecration this month. A fireworks spectacular...
TAKE a historical walking tour of Oldham tomorrow and learn about the town’s blue plaques. As part of the town’s Heritage Open Days, David McGealey, from Oldham...
LONG-SERVING members of Saddleworth Male Voice Choir were honoured during a presentation evening. The choir, established in 1955, awarded two members gifts for 90 years’...
Unpalletable to some, but this is art — or maybe bonfire fuel Is it a challenging art installation or a load of bonfire wood? The answer is... definitely the former,...
MODERN life can drive you mad and it is the little things that make us crazy, according to a nationwide survey. Taking the top slot is hoodies, the scowling, surly youths who...
A recently-overhauled Royal Scot-class locomotive Scots Guardsman passed through Mills Hill, Chadderton, on Sunday, en route from Carnforth to Scarborough. It was a private...
Ges on the Box THE day before we went to live in Aden, in 1963, my boyfriend sang “All My Loving” - you know, “Close Your Eyes and I’ll Kiss...
A FORMER Oldham businessman has invested more than £1 million in a new, state-of-the-art processing plant and premises in Tameside. The new recycling business has teamed...
TWO decades ago, a beauty salon opened in Grotton that has not only stood the test of time but also become a byword for excellence. Three years later, Slenderworld took on an...
TWO potato peeling machines made in Moorside have been shipped to a fast-food business in South Africa. Stigwood and Sons, in Grafton Street off Ripponden Road, has...
