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FOOTBALL: MOSSLEY followed their midweek FA Cup exit with a 3-1 Evo-Stik League Division One North defeat at Kendal Town. A Ryan Marley own-goal and two strikes from Jordan...
Date Published 07/09/2015
CRICKET: SADDLEWORTH are on the brink of being crowned SWB Commercials Saddleworth and District Cricket League champions. With 24 points needed from their last two games - 44...
BALLOONS of all colours filled the sky over Saddleworth as the 30th village Olympics opened in style. The opening ceremony, at Saddleworth School, saw youngsters from the seven...
CRICKET: ROYTON’S miserable end of season run in the Lake Garage CLL’s Premier Division continued yesterday with a sickening home defeat by Clifton. The hosts looked sure to...
CRICKET: IT proved to be a weekend of mixed fortunes for Delph in the Drakes Huddersfield League Premiership. On Saturday Greg Buckley’s men got the better of Barkisland...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards REDCAR 2.20 Strummer 2.50 La Asomada 3.20 Tango Sky 3.50 Dual...
CULT 70s and 80s musical “Hot Stuff” has returned to Oldham Coliseum Theatre for the 25th anniversary of its world premiere. The pop musical was initially devised...
A UNIQUE crime-fighting liquid is being used to deter metal thieves on the M60 and M62 in Greater Manchester. Highways England is using 140 litres of SmartWater on cables being...
KEEPING busy is the key to living to a ripe old age says Dorothy Berry, who celebrated her 100th birthday yesterday. Dorothy, from Hollins, believes her active life is one of...
ATHLETIC 1, BRADFORD 2 JONATHAN Forte was sent off as Athletic slumped to a first league defeat of the season. Last season's top scorer was dimissed after 33 minutes for...
Date Published 05/09/2015
GREATER Manchester’s first female detective chief superintendent is the guest speaker at the Chadderton HomeWatch meeting on Tuesday, September 8. Jane Antrobus, from...
Date Published 04/09/2015
A FORMER rugby league player has joined the Greater Manchester Business Growth Hub as an adviser. Richard Perkins (37) covers the Oldham and Rochdale areas, offering advice to...
MOSSLEY Tax Shop has been nominated as a finalist, as have two of its employees, in the North-West Finance Awards 2015 in a record-breaking year for entries. The expanding...
VANTAGE Motor Group has been appointed official Mazda dealer for Oldham and has plans to build a new site to boost turnover by £8million. Mazda will join Toyota, Kia,...
GOLF: CROMPTON and Royton’s lady-captain’s charity day was organised by the Scroungers Golf Society and raised over £3,000, which went a long way...
Oldhamers will have the chance to make or update their will free this month - as part of The Christie’s “Make a Will” Week, in return for a donation to the...
GOLF: ELEVEN handicapper Nick Littlewood produced a stunning round of one-over par 69 to fire a nett 58 and win Werneth’s Fairway Cup by six shots. His round of...
GOLF: PAM Tomlinson, the Saddleworth lady-captain, has a varied schedule of events lined up for her time in office. A member of the Mountain Ash course for 23 years,...
THE rest of the country should follow Saddleworth’s lead and stop burning historic hillside bogs, says the Rotal Society for the Protection of Birds. United Utilities and...
DARTS: OLDHAM started the defence of their Lancashire Super Eights Elite League title with a resounding 7-3 victory at Bury. After losing the opening game, the town...
FEWER people are making appointments with NHS dentists. Only 55 per cent of people saw a dentist in the two years to the end of June - the first fall in two years. In Oldham...
Sport Betting: ENGLAND’S cricketers just about managed to hold Australia at bay in Monday’s T20 international. Tomorrow they embark on the first of five...
CRICKET: LONG-STANDING wicketkeeper Grant Jones has saluted the impact of skipper Greg Buckley as Delph hunt down runner-up spot in the Drakes Huddersfield League. In...
POLICE are appealing for information after a silver Nissan Almera was seen driving away from the scene of a burglary in Cowlishaw Lane last Friday. A DRYSTONE walling event...
A HARDY bunch of haematologists has been nominated for a Pride in Oldham award - for treating patients with respect and dignity. Patient Angela Gibbons said staff on F11 ward...
CRICKET: ROYTON have turned to former Lancashire opening batsman Paul Horton to fill the gap left by the exit of professional Geeth Alwis Horton (32) made his...
FORMER Oldham prop Paul Highton helped make a 73-year-old rugby league fan’s dream come true. Madge McGarry took part in the Rugby League Extra phone-in on BBC Radio...
ROOKIE defender George Edmundson TWICE had to rely on second chances to prove his worth with Athletic. But after impressing on his first-team debut, the teenager is determined...
DOZENS of jobs are on the line at Oldham Council as bosses strive to make savings of £30 million by 2017. An internal memo sent to councillors by Emma Alexander,...
CROSS-DRESSING killer Graham Cleary-Senior was jailed for life yesterday after stabbing his wife in the chest at their home in Alt following a booze-fuelled row. He must serve...
