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OLDHAM Rugby League club has teamed up with the Roma community - thanks to football, rugby, basketball, tennis, table tennis, cricket, rounders... and dodgeball! The...
Date Published 11/08/2015
GREATER Manchester’s police and crime commissioner and his support staff cost taxpayers £2.4million a year — the second-highest amount in England and...
A FORMER heroin addict hooked since he was 15 has turned his life round with a new Oldham project. Rob Flynn has been heroin-free for 15-months- the longest period since he...
A drug dealer jailed for selling heroin on the streets of Oldham, was told by a judge his life was blighted by drugs and he too was a victim. Muhammad Zubair (46), admitted...
AN OLDHAM father of three convicted of a string of sex offices against two young girls has been jailed for 10 years. John Clarke (49), of Dowry Street, Fitton Hill, was found...
RESIDENTS on this quiet street in Shaw had their teatime disturbed when a taxi ended up wedged on top of a parked car after hitting another parked car in Queen Street. Luckily...
A 30 YEAR OLD man was stabbed in the neck on the dancefloor of an Oldham nightclub on Sunday. The victim was in Club Revolution around 3.20am when a fight broke out and the...
ONE of the UK’s biggest boybands, Union J, is coming to Oldham. The Queen Elizabeth Hall concert on October 25 will also feature “X Factor” finalists Only the...
VANDALS went on a smashing spree at the weekend targeting three bus shelters in Saddleworth. Police received no reports of the incidents, but the Evening Chronicle captured...
TWO rare Athletic match programmes from the early 1900s are to go under the hammer. The first programmes is from a match played in October, 1905, between Liverpool Reserves and...
BUOYED by a fine cameo display at Walsall, midfield maestro David Dunn is convinced there are good times ahead in an Athletic shirt, starting with tomorrow’s Capital One...
AFTER missing four months of Oldham's exciting League One season with a knee injury, Tom Ashton is keen to be heavily involved on the last lap of the promotion push. The former...
OLDHAM men’s darts team are the best in Britain. Flying the flag for Lancashire, they lifted the British Champions’ Cup with a nail-biting 5-4 win over Yorkshire....
IT will be a case of different competition, same approach for Rochdale tonight when they take on Coventry City in the first round of the Capital One Cup. Full of confidence...
A WOMAN who admitted stealing a bed, a fridge freezer and a table has been given a 12-month community order and must undertake 60 hours of unpaid work. Rebecca McGladdery of...
Non-league footbaLL: TEAM spirit and togetherness will be the major ingredients in what Mossley joint-manager Lloyd Morrison hopes will be a recipe for success again this...
THREE years of hard work and determination has paid off for dedicated volunteers with the official opening of the Jamie Heaton memorial park. The new play area, at Bullcote...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards BATH 5.15 Love On The Rocks 5.50 Top Cop 6.20 Wild Desert 6.50 All...
THE Oldham East and Saddleworth MP opposes Government plans to abolish the Human Rights Act and replace it with a Bill of Rights. Here she sets out her case for retaining the...
MUSIC EXTRA: TALENTED Oldham electro outfit Goda Tungl are hoping their forthcoming new EP will provide a boost after an encouraging first half to the year. Appearances on BBC...
DAVID Dunn’s debut whetted his manager Darren Kelly’s appetite as Athletic got the season off to a positive start. The former Blackburn Rovers man came off the...
Date Published 10/08/2015
LEWIS Palfrey’s 34 points in Oldham’s big win at Hemel Stags equalled the all-time club record for most points in a single game. Abe Johnson’s 30 in a win...
Walsall 1, Oldham Athletic 1 Trailing to a beautifully-taken Romaine Sawyers goal at the Bank’s Stadium, it seemed until the 83rd minute that Athletic’s stylish but...
HEMEL STAGS 6, OLDHAM 70 IT took Oldham half an hour to get over the long journey and to slowly drain Hemel of their initial enthusiasm and honest endeavour. Early on, the...
DARREN Kelly on Athletic’s response to going 1-0 down: “We conceded early on and it was a good test of character. The boys responded in a positive way, rather than...
JUST as he had promised, Scott Naylor delved into his squad to field a new-look Oldham side that included two loaned 19 year olds in half-back David Hewitt and front-row forward...
CHRIS Smalling feels Sergio Romero took to the task of replacing David de Gea with ease on his Manchester United debut against Tottenham. De Gea had to watch United’s...
FOOTBALL: DESPITE taking the lead, Chadderton were beaten 3-1 at home to St Helens Town on the opening day of the North-West Counties League season. Macauley Harewood...
CRICKET: OLDHAM were on the wrong end of a batting onslaught in a Lake Garage CLL Championship fixture which produced a massive 685 runs under blue skies. Milnrow's...
CRICKET: TENSE, thrilling, terrific — the final was all of those as the Saddleworth and District Cricket League won the Readers Lancashire Inter-League Trophy at...