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GOLF: BROTHERS Ste and Alan Daubney hit back from a two-hole deficit to win the final of the Daily Mail Foursomes at Oldham. Opponents Steve Warburton and Daniel Marland...
Date Published 23/10/2015
Sports Betting: MICHAEL Wild will carry the hopes of the Oldham snooker fraternity into the International Championship which gets under way in the early hours of Sunday...
SNOOKER: CHADDERTON Reform have again recorded the result of the week in the Hollands Pies Oldham Amateur Snooker League. A second consecutive 5-1 victory over...
PARENTS who thought they might lose their baby daughter from a rare condition have launched an appeal to provide her with specialist equipment. Tiny Lily Limb was taken to the...
THE eyes of all political parties are firmly fixed on Oldham with a by-election looming in the wake of the shock death of MP Michael Meacher. The Chronicle was first to break...
Tributes were paid to Michael Meacher in the House of Commons yesterday. Speaker John Bercow said Mr Meacher will be sadly missed after serving with “dedication, ability...
TWO men who helped to subject an Oldham taxi-driver to a terrifying ordeal have been convicted of robbery. A trial jury at Manchester Crown Court took less than an hour to...
SHOCKED shopkeepers rushed into a precinct car park yesterday after a truck wrecked a police car. The vehicle rolled backwards and collided with the stationary police Vauxhall...
POLICE are investigating reports of a rape near a former care home in Mossley. Detectives and forensic experts have been examining the empty building, which used to be the...
OLDHAM is a hot spot for parents being fined for their children skipping school and so parents can take cheaper holidays. Figures show 2,026 parents received penalty notices...
A FATHER is furious after being told his eight-year-old son could no longer attend his Moorside school’s breakfast club. Mark Shaw (47), of Watersheddings, has been...
WHEN nine-year-old schoolgirl Kendra Marland heard about fellow Oldhamers struggling to afford warm food she took action - and used her spending to buy not sweets but enough food...
ATHLETIC boss David Dunn is relishing the chance to get his teeth into a local derby. The manager is asking his players to prove their worth against the side managed by his...
A LIVE chicken thrown on to the pitch, an equalising goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time and subsequent accusations of ‘fowl play’... it will take something...
KEVIN de Bruyne does not think there are any issues between his club and country team–mate Vincent Kompany and their Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini. Pellegrini...
LOUIS van Gaal believes Chris Smalling is destined to become Manchester United captain. Smalling will be one of the first names on Van Gaal’s teamsheet when United host...
Athletic’s wing wizard writes every week for Chron Sport THE ROCHDALE game is one all of the players are really looking forward to. They are a side with some good...
FOOTBALL: MOSSLEY joint-boss Peter Band is eyeing a repeat performance when his team travel to meet Clitheroe in the Evo-Stik League Division One North tomorrow. The Lilywhites...
CHRONICLE racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections for tomorrow’s meetings are - NEWBURY 1.20 Alyssa 1.50 Royal Reserve 2.25 Romsdal 3.00...
OLDHAM is in mourning following the death of the town’s longest-serving MP Michael Meacher. The 75-year-old Labour veteran, an Oldham MP since 1970, died yesterday after...
Date Published 22/10/2015
MICHAEL Meacher had retained his Oldham West and Royton seat with a 14,738 majority in May’s general election. The 75-year-old Labour veteran, an Oldham MP since 1970,...
MICHAEL Meacher was a veteran of the Labour left, who served on the party’s front bench for 29 years and was a minister for 11 despite passionately advocating views that...
A ROAD in Shaw was locked down yesterday after police discovered dangerously-stored chemicals at a tyre company. The officers had raided Crompton Tyres in Milnrow Road as part...
THREE men are being hunted by police after a newspaper delivery driver was robbed at knifepoint in Dobcross. The 33-year-old victim was unloading papers at around 1.30am a week...
ONE OF three Oldham men alleged to have robbed a taxi driver at knifepoint told a trial jury he was totally innocent. Electrician Liam Fairfoull (21) said he believed Zeshan...
POLES APART, Lowry, to Saturday JOHN Godber’s work has been tailing off for years now, like he’s a bit bored with the stage but can’t bring himself to give it...
A CORONER yesterday heard how a 24 year old man took his own life months after losing his job. Nicholas Wild (24), of Denton Lane, Chadderton, used a plastic bag to suffocate...
OLDHAM’S civic bonfire is back with a bang — and this year it’s going to be out of this world! The annual event takes place at Oldham Edge on November 5 and...
A FORMER jam factory worker celebrated her 100th birthday yesterday. Mary Barns, who now lives in Springfield House, Waterhead, was born and grew up in Droylsden and worked at...
A FAMILY of four escaped unhurt when their car crashed into two parked cars on Middleton Road in Chadderton. Emergency services were called at around 11am, when a Volkswagen...
