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A QUIRKY new night market is being launched at the heart of Oldham town centre to showcase the best of local arts, crafts, and alternative fashions. The events will be in held...
Date Published 26/02/2016
MORE than £1.7 million of National Lottery funding was awarded across Oldham last year. The council was one of the big benefactors, receiving £134,000 to help...
EATING well and keeping healthy has paid off for Elizabeth Armstrong, who turned 100 today. The great-great-grandmother, who is now blind, was surrounded by loved ones in...
THE next monthly community of St Chad coffee morning is in support of WaterAid. Entry is £2 at the St Chad Parish Centre, Station Road, Uppermill, from 10 to 11.30am on...
MATT Palmer will provide a major boost in the fight to avoid relegation by staying at the club — as long as Athletic get their way. The energetic midfielder has been a...
TOM Ashton and Adam Files have joined Phil Joy on Oldham’s doubtful list for the tough KP Championship game at Featherstone Rovers on Sunday. Right centre Ashton, who has...
ANTHONY Gerrard was always going to have a major say in whether or not Athletic pull off what some are calling a ‘Shezurrection’. Gerrard had been playing for the...
BUOYED by their 38-16 win against Dewsbury Rams, Oldham will go to Featherstone on Sunday feeling they’ve got to have a realistic chance of causing another...
LOUIS van Gaal heaped praise on Manchester United's young stars after ending a tough Europa League clash with FC Midtjylland in style. Losing the first leg of the last–32...
Manuel Pellegrini has called for more of the same as Manchester City head into Sunday’s Capital One Cup final after a superb Champions League victory in Kiev. City...
Latics’ wing wizard writes every week for Chron Sport THERE is still an awfully long way to go this season, but things are definitely looking up. I said in this column...
IT’S simply about keeping the momentum going for Mossley as they continue their quest for a Evo-Stik League Division One North play-off place tomorrow at mid-table Bamber...
Limeside King George 0, Middleton Colts 2 LIMESIDE King George may have bowed out of the North West Sunday Champions’ Cup at the last-eight, but there is lots to look...
HUDDERSFIELD League high-fliers Heyside eased into the second round of the Huddersfield FA Challenge Cup as they won 2-1 at Berry Brow. Heyside started the game well, and an...
FARHAD Chowdhury was in top scoring form for Westwood in the Oldham Sunday League Jack Abbott Premier Division. Chowdhury netted five times as his side edged out Carrion Crow...
PETE Mottram once again topped a Todmorden AS members match, his latest victory coming on Croft where he fished on the pole to record a 34lb 11oz catch of good sized carp....
BRAVE Lincon Freeman has defied the odds after being told he would never walk or talk. When the resilient five-year-old was born, doctors found a port wine birthmark on his...
Date Published 25/02/2016
OLDHAM councillors last night approved budget proposals that will put council tax up 3.6 per cent. The council will increase its element of the council bill by 3.7 per cent -...
A monster who forced women to become his sex slaves during a decade-long campaign of torture and abuse has lost an appeal against his life sentence. Iqbal Ali (34) of Oldham,...
MP Jim McMahon says a controversial Government bill that will plunge 42,500 Oldham children further into poverty is an “evil attack on the poorest in society”. The...
A CAMPAIGN to build a new health centre in Saddleworth has been launched by Liberal Democrat councillors. They are urging Oldham Council and NHS Oldham Clinical Commissioning...
A missing Oldham family has been found safe and well. Police appealed yesterday for the public’s help in tracing Sarah Jane Joyce (26) and Michael Gavin (25) and their...
THE Saddleworth farmer whose pregnant ewe was mauled to death by a marauding dog has lost two more pregnant animals Last week, Chronicle readers expressed shock at a picture of...
OLDHAM College staff staged a one-day strike yesterday over pay. Members of the University and College Union (UCU) and Unison picketed in sub-zero temperatures before taking...
JUNIOR doctors will continue their fight against a new work contract, with three further strikes following the Government’s decision to impose the new terms. Earlier this...
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust chief executive is leaving for a new role. Dr Gillian Fairfield will become chief executive at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS...
A GP surgery has apologised to patients and vowed to improve after being placed in special measures by health watchdog the Care Quality Commission. Failsworth Group Medical...
RESIDENTS in Chadderton were left shocked and angry when fly-tippers dumped this mountain of rubbish on their doorstep. The huge pile of household rubbish was left near houses...
THE votes have been cast and the results are in for the Oldham Youth Council elections. A total of 97 candidates stood, with 6,137 11 to 21-year-olds voting at polling stations...
FAMILIES feeling the pinch over half-term caused an almost 30 per cent spike in visits to Oldham foodbank. Operator Andrew Barr said there were 133 visits to the Clegg Street...
