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MANCHESTER City boss Manuel Pellegrini emerged from last night’s Capital One Cup semi-final first-leg defeat at Everton with several injury worries. Eliaquim Mangala was...
Date Published 07/01/2016
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections for tomorrow’s cards
IAN Ogden has been rewarded for his work to promote rugby league in the borough. While enjoying an evening out with Waterhead Warriors players he was ambushed by Anita...
Secretary of Hollinwood ARLFC Fred Halliwell has high hopes Saturday’s Pennine League derby clash at home to Higginshaw will take place. Halliwell said he is 90 per cent...
IN our first edition of The Knowledge for 2016 we peer into Google's latest service - Google Goggles! Well, Google Expeditions actually, a 3D device that in combination with...
A frustrated garage boss is reeling from a double whammy after thieves tried to steal a van from his forecourt. John Igoe had to pay £150 to retrieve the abandoned van,...
Date Published 06/01/2016
A CHEATING family man would drop his wife and young children off at church for Sunday service then rush off to have sex with his 12-year old girlfriend, a court has been...
The man chosen to stand in place of deselected Royton North councillor Bernard Judge has quashed calls of nepotism and paid tribute to his predecessor. The Chronicle reported...
JUNIOR Doctors at the Royal Oldham Hospital will strike next Tuesday after the brekdown of talks regarding “unsafe and unfair” contract changes. Weeks of talks...
A FORMER Oldham College student who grew up in Clarksfield has been awarded an MBE for 15 years of voluntary service in prisons and immigration detention centres. Stephen Knox,...
CONSERVATION work has returned an historic Chadderton shield to its former splendour. Workers at Chadderton Town Hall stumbled on the damaged crest under the building’s...
THE latest exhibition at Gallery Oldham explores the facts and legends of the brutal sport of clog fighting. In these contests working men would engage in man-on-man combat,...
GREATER Manchester’s economy is growing faster than the UK average, according to the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Over 400 businesses completed the study,...
AN Oldham marketing and communications agency is celebrating its fifth year in business. Owl Marketing was set up by Liz Lancashire and Deborah Wroe in late 2010 and has...
JOE Curran, co-ordinator of Oldham’s alcohol delivery plan, is the guest speaker at the next Chadderton Home Watch Meeting. It takes place at Chadderton Wellbeing...
ATHLETIC are on the trail of Mansfield centre-back Ryan Tafazolli. A cut-price deal could be in the offing during the transfer window as manager David Dunn tries to bolster his...
OLDHAM are ready to move up in the rugby league world – and coach Scott Naylor will know far more about his revamped squad’s Championship credentials after...
Darts: OLDHAM town team ace Mark McGeeney shrugged off nerves to secure a dream BDO World Championship debut win. Taking to the famous Lakeside stage for the first time,...
MANUEL Pellegrini admits even winning trophies won’t guarantee he stays at Manchester City next season. The imminently-available Pep Guardiola continues to be linked with...
MANCHESTER United are planning to bring Will Keane into the first–team squad following his recall from a loan at Preston. United cut short Keane’s season–long...
WITH the new Kingstone Press Championship season now barely a month away, we figured it was an ideal time to take a look back at a dream 2015 League One season for Oldham...
Snooker: AS if he needed reminding, 2015 was a rocky ride for Moorside snooker star Michael Wild. Flying back from a two-week holiday in the Dominican Republic, the 34 year old...
Sports Betting: RONNIE O’Sullivan was awarded the OBE in the New Year Honours List, and the Rocket will be hoping to celebrate his new status with victory in the Dafabet...
WITH a surname like Palmer, it looks like a Stamford Golf Club teenager is destined for the top. The club has a great recent record of producing some outstanding golfers - and...
CHAMPIONSHIP Start times: 12.30pm in April; 1pm May 1 to August 20 inclusive; 12.30pm until the end of August, except for T20 Finals’ Day at 10.30am; noon in...
BOWLS: JACK Copeland, father of top-class local bowlers David and Steve, has died at the age of 81. A former player with Chadderton Cot and King George V, Jack was a regular...
MYSTERY continues to surround the identity of a man nearly a month after his body was found on the moors in Saddleworth. Detectives have been left baffled by the bizarre case...
Date Published 05/01/2016
AN Oldham businessman cynically groomed a vulnerable young girl to satisfy his sexual lust, a trial jury has been told. Family man Clive Royales flattered the vulnerable...
Oldham TV favourite Suranne Jones is up for an award in this month’s prestigious National Television Awards. Chadderton-born Suranne is nominated in the Drama Performance...
