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A FORMER Oldham doctors’ leader has warned chasing a “politically-driven pipe dream” of a seven-day health service is impossible when the curent system is...
Date Published 25/09/2015
Greater Manchester’s interim Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd yesterday visited Waterhead to see how two projects have had a positive impact on the...
ANGLING:L JOE Rowan bagged top honours in the latest of the Medlock Bridge AC opens on the Park Lake, pole and maggot attracting four small f1s for a 5lb 14oz net. Bob...
BOWLS: GREEN Final Handicap winner Steve Copeland will bid for glory in the Champion of Champions’ event at the Waterloo Hotel in Blackpool tomorrow (10am). The...
RUGBY: While local amateur rugby clubs Saddleworth Rangers, Oldham St Anne’s and Waterhead Warriors are counting down the remaining games in their National Conference League...
FOOTBALL: UPPERMILL are still looking for their first win in the FBT Manchester League Premier Division. A solitary point from their first seven games means Uppermill face a...
FOOTBALL: HEYSIDE made it three wins on the bounce in Huddersfield and District League Division One with a 4-2 defeat of Britannia Sports. The visitors went ahead when a...
FOOTBALL: THERE were goals a plenty in round one of the Oldham Sunday League President’s Trophy. Schofield led the way for Manchester Swifts with six goals in an 11-1...
Royton Town 2, AFC Monton 0 JOE Jacombs scored on his debut as Royton Town eased their way into the second round of the Manchester League’s Gilgryst Cup at the Oldham...
CRICKET: THE new Pennine Cricket League received a huge boost last night with the news that brewery JW Lees will sponsor the competition to the tune of £100,000 over the...
SNOOKER: DEAF ‘A’ have hit the heights in the Hollands Pies Oldham Amateur Snooker League courtesy of a 6-0 whitewash of Blue Club ‘A’. It is a...
HOCKEY: OLDHAM Women’s first team started the season against an excellent Deeside Ramblers side, from Tiverton in Cheshire. The hosts were relegated from North...
OLDHAM’S final major of the season, the Dunkerley Cup, was played over two days and was won by Terry Garrett with nett rounds of 61 and 67 for a total of 128. That return...
GOLF: SADDLEWORTH came from four shots back to beat Crompton and Royton and claim their fourth successive Oldham and District Captains’ weekend PVC Trophy in...
DIGGLE athletics starlet Ayla Hewitt was in breath-taking form at the recent National Championship finals in Birmingham. The Saddleworth School pupil won a gold medal in the...
Healds Green Methodist Church is taking part in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning for Macmillan Cancer Support from 10.30am to noon on Saturday. Various stalls and...
THE Federation of Small Businesses has formed a networking group which meets in... the great outdoors of Saddleworth. The group’s debut Networking in Nature walk was a...
NORTH WEST businesses added almost £2billion to their total market capitalisations over the summer months, according to business advisers Deloitte. One company, Renold...
MOSSLEY Tax Shop has been shortlisted for two categories in a national financial industry award. The firm - noted for its amusing advertising - iss a finalist in this...
A GREEN-FINGERED volunteer for Oldham Council and community group Friends of Stoneleigh Park has earned a Pride in Oldham nomination for regularly helping the parks department in...
FRIENDS of Jubilee Colliery need volunteers. Go to the colliery, on Shaw Road, between 10am and 2pm every Monday. AN arts and crafts fair will be held at the Duke of York...
THE hills will be alive with the sound of music when kind-hearted musicians strum up money for a good cause on Saturday. DiggFest, a fund-raising music festival in Diggle, will...
PATIENTS from Oldham will be part of the world’s first clinical trial hoping to find an effective and non-addictive drug to relieve diabetic pain. The trial, taking place...
THE parents of a three-year-old girl diagnosed with an ultra-rare life-limiting genetic condition say they will never stop fighting to get their daughter the treatment she...
A FORMER Waterhead Academy music teacher has evaded jail - despite pleading guilty to a string of child sex offences. Stuart Lingard, who was principal cornet player in...
A huge pile of mattresses has turned a Denshaw beauty spot into a dumping ground. This picture was taken at Haigh Gutter in Huddersfield Road yesterday morning. Fly-tippers...
A SOCIAL worker unfairly dismissed by Oldham Council following the death of a man in his care wants an apology following the dropping of misconduct and incompetence claims against...
THE devastated family of a baby who died after failings in care during his birth at the Royal Oldham Hospital have said they are heartbroken, knowing his death could have been...
THE funeral of a popular teenager killed in an horrific stab attack will take place on Thursday, October 1. A mass in honour of 19-year-old Tommy Bilton begins at Holy Family...
Excited shoppers queued outside ahead of the reopening of the much-awaited TJ Hughes discount chain’s new store at Spindles Town Square yesterday. Four years after it...
