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OLDHAM’s social housing provider First Choice Homes has fulfilled all 154 promises it made to tenants a year ahead of schedule. The promises were made in a document in...
Date Published 22/09/2015
THE 30th annual Saddleworth Village Olympics came to a close at the weekend. The event — which this year ran from September 5-20 — saw more than 1,000 children...
HARD-UP Oldhamers will get the opposite of Christmas cheer when letters detailing tax credit cuts arrive in December. Oldham West and Royton MP Michael Meacher has demanded an...
OLDHAM’S cultural and heritage regeneration has been given a boost with agreement on a new programme of developments. Cabinet members have approved plans for...
OLDHAM East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams has been appointed Minister for Disabled People in Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet. Mrs Abrahams, who has been...
AN Oldham woman who repeatedly campaigned for contact with the daughter she lost to adoption has been told the law no longer considers her the child’s mother In the six...
A WOMAN had to be freed from her car by fire-fighters following a crash in Roundthorn Road, Oldham, yesterday afternoon. Two cars collided at around 2.30pm. Two other people...
A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a double stabbing in Clarksfield yesterday. Police were called in theearly hours of Monday morning following reports that...
SADDLEWORTH School has warned parents that a man exposed himself to a Year 10 girl in Dobcross. The incident happened at around 8.45pm on Saturday near Newbank Garden Centre in...
THIS dressed-up dog definitely isn’t just for Christmas but has already had one wish granted — to spend the festive season in a lovely cosy home. Ageing Jodie (14)...
YOUNG Latics fans are to get the chance to be match day announcer, run the club website or even becoming a director for the day when club stages Youth Takeover Day on October...
ATHLETIC skipper Liam Kelly was an impressed spectator on Saturday when he watched his rejigged team draw at Doncaster in David Dunn’s first match as manager. Midfielder...
PROMOTED Oldham have re-signed Tom Ashton, who has pledged to spend the entire off season working on his general fitness. The 23-year-old former Sheffield Eagles centre has...
BOXING: THE injustice of a majority draw decision last time against Colombian Darleys Perez is driving Anthony Crolla ahead of his eagerly-anticipated rematch on November...
MANCHESTER City will aim to put a bad week behind them and get back to winning ways as they travel to struggling Sunderland in the Capital One Cup tonight. City got a reality...
City’s roving reporter writes every week for Chron Sport I WAS absolutely aghast at the final scoreline when Manchester City played West Ham at the Etihad Stadium. It...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards GOODWOOD 2.00 Tadaawol 2.35 Good Run (nb) 3.10 Revision 3.45 Wannabe...
MUSIC EXTRA: THE life of an Ok Broken band member certainly isn’t dull at present, with prestigious gigs, movie filming and a possible starring role on BBC television coming...
TAKE a bow Oldham Rugby League Club — the toast of the town! The roaring Roughyeds beat Keighley Cougars 31-20 to clinch promotion to the Championship in front of a...
Date Published 21/09/2015
WEARING their heroes’ colours of red and white, Roughyeds fans packed into the tight surrounds of Whitebank to help create Oldham Rugby League Club...
CHAIRMAN Chris Hamilton has spoken of the moment Oldham turned the corner in their magnificent promotion-winning campaign. The Roughyeds’ wonderful 31-20 defeat of...
POLICE are investigating a double stabbing in Clarksfield. An alley in Goss Hill Street was sealed off by police this morning and a forensics tent was put up in Lees Road. The...
POLICE are investigating an attempted knifepoint robbery on a taxi driver in Saddleworth in the early hours of Friday. At around 2.55am, a taxi driver picked up four people...
INSPIRATIONAL stand-off and skipper Lewis Palfrey and bustling centre George Tyson saluted the influence of coach Scott Naylor after Oldham’s brilliant 31-20 win over...
A BUSY Greenfield road was closed as firefighters tackled a garage blaze in Mossley on Friday. The fire, believed to have been caused by an acetylene cylinder, broke out at a...
SOAKED from head to toe in bottled something-or-other — his squad’s way of thanking the boss for a fabulous season — Scott Naylor came out of the...
Oldham MP Debbie Abrahams says justice won’t be served if the proposed closure of the borough’s magistrates court goes ahead. The MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth said: “I’m...
ATHLETIC’S interim boss David Dunn has promised a busy week of transfer activity - with attacking players at the top of the list. Dunn’s first match in charge at...
REVELLERS flocked to Delph’s 10th anniversry Party in the Park on Saturday. Acts included Sally Mitchell, Mike Sweeney and the Thunderbirds, The Fantastic, Delph Band,...
OLDHAM 31, KEIGHLEY COUGARS 20 THEY didn’t bottle it this time. A champion team did a champion job and Oldham fans celebrated promotion long into the night feeling......