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GLODWICK’S last-minute change of plan has left the embryonic Pennine League with its dream ticket. The Saddleworth League outfit had been expected to join the Greater...
Date Published 02/07/2015
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards DONCASTER 2.00 Alasaal 2.30 Don’t Call Me 3.00 Bella Lulu 3.35...
CHILDREN and parents using the Royal Oldham Hospital have a positive experience of care there, a new survey reports. The experiences of almost 19,000 children and young people...
TOGETHER IN ELECTRIC DREAMS (Swan, Dobcross) IN the week an early trailer for Danny Boyle’s new biopic of Steve Jobs surfaces, Daniel Thackeray offers a computing...
THE award for the coolest and most original mode of transport must go to a group of Mossley Hollins pupils who turned up to their end-of-school prom at Smokies Park Hotel in... an...
Debbie Abrahams recently criticised the Prime Minister over increasing UK inequality. She told David Cameron “This month’s International Monetary Fund report shows...
Drivers have been warned they face a zero-tolerance approach to causing an obstruction to the tram network after several were caught parking too near the track. Today the...
Date Published 01/07/2015
A CRACKDOWN on wanted offenders in Oldham has seen 67 people arrested in a week of action. The offenders were arrested for assault, bail-breaches, failing to appear at court...
Top Oldham swimmer Jessica Fullalove swopped her swim cap for a hard hat as she toured the new pool under construction at Royton’s £8 million sport centre. The...
A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy escaped with minor injuries when he fell from a moving car yesterday. The driver stopped the car as soon as he realised what had happened in Farm Road,...
DARREN Kelly is working towards Liam Kelly being in Athletic’s midfield next season, confirming the decision to retain him as captain. The 25 year old has been the...
SCOTT Naylor believes the public perception of Oldham's credentials as serious promotion candidates will be defined in the forthcoming games against York and...
BOXING: HUGE support from his Manchester fans is dragging Anthony “Million Dollar” Crolla towards world title glory on July 18. Chadderton-based Crolla will go...
SPORTS BETTING: THE Ashes get underway with the first Test in Cardiff next Wednesday and the bookies reckon England are in for a bashing at the hands of Australia. The Baggy...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
CRICKET: DELPH’S third Drakes Huddersfield League Twenty20 Cup group stage fixture ended in narrow defeat last night. Replying to visitors Holmfirth’s 202 for five,...
Pupils from Hulme Grammar School have dug deep to support children in poverty-stricken rural Ghana. While textiles students have been making clothes and gifts for 200 pupils...
EIGHT people have been punished at Oldham Magistrates Court for flouting environmental health laws. Ghazanfor Mahmood (49) asked an unknown man to remove rubbish from his home...
A DEVASTATED young motorist devoted two years to building his car - only to find it engulfed in flames three weeks after he first drove it. Jak Maden (20), of High Crompton,...
CANCER treatment has been given a £5milllion boost by Cancer Research UK to help transform “personalised” local medicine. The news follows the recent launch...
SMART suits, glamorous gowns and even a traditional Victorian period dress were all on display as students turned out for the Blue Coat prom. Year 11 pupils ensured they looked...
NORTH West motorists are set to benefit from the biggest shake up of the region’s roads in 50 years. Highways England will invest £1.5 billion over the next five...
PET owners on low incomes or benefits can get their cats and dogs checked out at low costs at RSPCA-run mobile clinics. The facilities are travelling across the borough to...
HOPES are rising that firms at a Royton business park will soon have superfast broadband services. Companies at Salmon Fields have been calling for urgent action for months....
Date Published 30/06/2015
Physicists from across the borough were celebrated at a special awards ceremony at Oldham Sixth Form College yesterday. A delegation from the Ogden Trust arrived by helicopter...
YOUNG gymnasts can practice acrobatics at Heyside United Reformed Hall, Hebron Street, every Thursday from 5.30 to 6.30pm. Intended for those aged from four to 15, entrance...
TRANQUILLISER campaigner Barry Haslam has welcomed news that an investigation will be launched into the prescribing of the drugs. The British Medical Association plans to...
DELIGHTED families are settling into 23 new homes in Greenfield - after beating thousands of applicants for the New Charter Housing Group properties. More than 3,100 people...
Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd has been officially appointed interim Mayor of Greater Manchester at a ceremony in Oldham. His appointment was rubber-stamped at the...
AN open art exhibition is being staged at St Margaret’s Church from Saturday until the end of the month. The church will be open at various times throughout the week....
