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HELP Street Scene Greenfield spruce up the area’s canal towpaths. Volunteers are clearing debris, cutting back vegetation and resurfacing areas with stone as well as...
Date Published 19/02/2016
SEVENTEEN cup finals await Athletic as manager John Sheridan warns there will be absolutely no let-up between now and the end of the season. Tomorrow's home game against...
Steve Roper and Liam Thompson have been cleared to play for Oldham against Dewsbury Rams this Sunday. They took knocks to the head against Leigh, went off in the first half and...
Athletic supporters hope Curtis Main, who wants to start against Gillingham tomorrow, can find the net time and time again between now and early May to lift the club away from...
THERE was a time when Aaron Brown, Gareth Owen and Phil Joy – and a certain George Ford – were teenagers and team mates at Waterhead. “We grew up together at...
TEENAGER Jake Bibby hopes his loan with Oldham will be a stepping stone to a regular spot in Salford’s Super League side. The Wigan-born centre doesn’t leave his...
BOSS Louis van Gaal agreed with Manchester United fans’ scathing assessment of the team after the 2–1 Europa League defeat at FC Midtjylland. But he insists his...
MANCHESTER City’s influential skipper Vincent Kompany is firing on all cylinders again after finally getting over his recent injuries. The Belgian ace returned to the...
The Latics wing wizard writes every week from Chron Sport WE played well against Blackpool and were the better side on the night, but needed to take one of the chances that...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections for tomorrow’s cards
Non-league football: MOSSLEY will go into tomorrow’s crunch Evo-Stik League Division One North clash against Northwich Victoria on the back of their best performance of the...
White House 1, Coppice United 4 KHASER Ahmed’s hat-trick helped secure Coppice United’s passage into the quarter-finals of the Oldham Sunday League’s...
KYLE Jackson led the way with a super hat-trick as Oldham Sunday League hopefuls Crown triumphed6-3 at Charlestown in the Manchester County Cup. Dale Mansfield, Jordan...
HEYSIDE were knocked off the top of Huddersfield League Division One after being beaten at Hepworth United. Geoff Howard’s men fell to their first defeat in eight games,...
THE battle of the top two in the Premier Division of the FBT Manchester Football League saw Royton Town leapfrog Prestwich Heys with a stunning 4-1 victory at the Oldham Academy...
GRASSROOTS footballer Niall Barnes showed true sportsmanship was alive and kicking when fair play was the winner in a tense local league fixture. Just as Barcelona megastar...
WHEN an 89-year-old grandmother reported water dripping from her kitchen ceiling, housing bosses sent round an electrician to disconnect the light - but no one to fix the...
Date Published 18/02/2016
A FRAIL pensioner sexually assaulted a woman in his Oldham flat after she visited him to get telephone contacts to buy drugs, a court was told. Harry Wareing (74), who has...
POLICE hunting a convicted sex trafficker are appealing for the public’s help to find him. Florin Radu (30) was convicted in his absence of trafficking, controlling...
VETERAN deselected Royton councillor Bernard Judge is hoping to take his experience to Crompton after being chosen as Labour’s candidate for the ward. In December...
OLDHAM MP Jim McMahon welcomed shadow immigration minister Keir Starmer to Oldham. Mr Starmer visited Mr McMahon’s constituency office in Union Street to examine the...
A TRANSPORT chief has warned passengers to look out for a potential tram scam at an Oldham town centre stop. Peter Cushing, the Metrolink director at Transport for Greater...
A 15-year-old boy appeared in court yesterday charged with the violent assault of two boys aged 14 and 17. Police were called to the incident in Denmark Street, Chadderton,...
A BOY was beaten up by a gang of around 10 youths who stole his mobile phone. The victim was attacked close to the Waggon and Horses Pub, Manchester Road, Hollinwood, at 4.45pm...
FAULTY traffic lights caused chaos at one of Oldham’s busiest junctions. A car and a van were involved in a minor collision when the signals at Huddersfield Road and...
THE number of people unemployed Oldham rose by 460 last month — bucking the national trend which saw a 60,000 drop in the jobless total. A total of 4,730 Oldhamers were...
MAHDLO is celebrating a £6,000 boost from donations made during Insider Media’s inaugural Insider Residential Property Awards ceremony. The Oldham Youth Zone on...
A WOMAN in her 80s had a lucky escape yesterday when a candle fell over and set fire to a settee. The woman fled her home in Firwood Park, Chadderton, at around 8.15pm leaving...
AN inspirational group of fund raisers raised more than £3,000 walking 170 miles from Oldham to Bristol in memory of a three-year-old girl who died of cancer. The...
AN Oldham bus route is among those to be axed under a regional transport savings drive. The 412 Sunday service, which passes the Royal Oldham Hospital and provides an hourly...
