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A 19-YEAR-OLD man narrowly avoided prison after admitting downloading naked images of a 14-year-old girl and sending her similar images of himself. Michael Melia, of Hartshead...
Date Published 17/09/2015
A NEWBORN baby died at the Royal Oldham Hospital after a blunder led to operating rooms being double-booked, an inquest heard. Natasha and Sean Butler lost baby Spencer...
Oldham Planning Committee MORE than 90 houses could be built on the controversial Foxdenton site before a planned link road has been built. Developers of the £100m plan,...
OLDHAM has again reported a drop in joblessness figures: A total of 2,305 people - 1,380 men and 925 women - claimed Jobseeker’s Allowance in August, 39 fewer than in...
SCRUM on down: fans are being invited to witness as the former home of Oldham Rugby League is recognised with a new “anniversary” blue plaque. The unveiling at...
GREATER Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd has slammed the Home Secretary for ignoring calls to come clean on planned cuts to local policing. Mr Lloyd says the...
ATHLETIC midfield man Lee Croft admits he felt for outgoing boss Darren Kelly, who was fired by Athletic only seven league games into the season. Croft, who sat out the 5-1...
A 25-YEAR-OLD man admitted his part in a raid on a Glodwick jewellery shop with a sledgehammer, battering ram and imitation gun on April 28. Sohbar Khan pleased guilty at...
THE ALPHABET GIRL, Oldham Coliseum Studio, to Saturday IT’S quite a culture shock, moving from Tuesday night’s mightily impressive but emotionally cold epic,...
THIS is the third year in a row that Oldham are 80 minutes from promotion - and most of the players beaten in those grand finals will be back to try again in Sunday’s...
DAVID Dunn took control of training this week - and wasted no time making changes in adding new first-team coach Keith Brown to the staff. Dunn (35) won’t be shy about...
RICHIE Wellens could be back in Doncaster’s side to do battle with Athletic — which could mean the former Latics hero pits himself against the club’s new boss,...
RUUD van Nistelrooy thinks Anthony Martial should lead the line for Manchester United this season instead of Wayne Rooney. Teenager Martial, snapped up from Monaco for a fee...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards NEWBURY 2.10 Swilly Sunset 2.45 Aussie Andre 3.20 Memorial Day 3.55...
BIRTHDAY celebrations ended in tragedy when a 66-year-old Failsworth woman and her partner died in a fall downstairs. Mary Murphy and John Wood (67) were found dead at the foot...
Date Published 16/09/2015
A thug who punched and stamped on a man wearing fancy dress has been told by top judges he can’t complain about being sent to jail. Victim Harrison Fleming was on his way...
A prisoner who scaled the roof of Manchester Prison - Strangeways - ended his one-man protest after three days with the help of an Oldham fire crew. Murderer Stuart Horner...
HE has only a shoestring budget to work with, but Athletic boss David Dunn hopes he can soon bring in new players to strengthen the squad. The 35-year-old interim boss has...
MORE than 1,150 people have signed an online petition to save the Wendy house of four-year-old Diggle boy Jacob Heron. Yesterday we revealed how Oldham Council had rejected...
BACK home and none the worse for his Moscow adventure, Richard Lepori is injury-free and looking forward to Oldham’s promotion final against Keighley Cougars on...
OLDHAM Athletic have announced a provisional opening date for the much-delayed new North Stand. The club is confident the stand will be open when Latics take on Sheffield...
A TEARFUL Luke Shaw spent the night in an Eindhoven hospital after suffering a double leg fracture during Manchester United’s 2–1 defeat to PSV. Shaw was the victim...
MANCHESTER City were left to count the cost of wasted chances after surrendering a lead to lose their Champions League opener against Juventus. City looked in control of the...
BOXING: OLDHAM teenage boxing sensation Will Cawley struck gold at the internationally-renowned Brandenburg Cup. The 18 year old, from Holts, was making his bow for England in...
NETBALL: MANCHESTER Thunder have signed young England player Natalie Haythornthwaite. The 22 year old will make the switch across the Pennines from Roses rivals Yorkshire Jets...
BOWLS: GARY Ellis’s bid for a record sixth Waterloo Handicap title ended at the last 16 stage in Blackpool. The Nimble Nook star faced a tough opponent in Ian Nicholson,...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards PONTEFRACT 2.10 Spike 2.45 Advance 3.15 Muraabit 3.50...
Drug dealers involved in an £860,000 plot to flood Oldham and Burnley with heroin and crack cocaine have lost an appeal to cut their jail terms. Kamran Khan (20) and...
A MAN was talked down from a railway bridge in Chadderton at 8.40 last night. The man was perched on the ledge of the bridge over Oldham Road, close to Mills Hill Station
THE high-frequency device fitted at the back of a Shaw cafe to deter youths is owned by Oldham Council. The Chronicle reported last week on the Mosquito alarm, fixed to the...
