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LOBSTERS, disco kings and even superheroes took part in this year’s unofficial Saddleworth Beer Walk. Now in its fourth year, around 200 people set off on...
Date Published 02/06/2015
WHEN Travis Glossop left school at 16 with low grades and a part-time supermarket job, little did he know he would one day be riding the Oldham airwaves. The 22 year old from...
In the June edition of The Knowledge - free in Wednesday’s Chronicle - we look at some of the ways secondary schools ease the way for new pupils starting at daunting “big...
Date Published 01/06/2015
FOXDENTON Hall isn’t for sale - and could soon be given a new lease of life. Worried residents contacted the Chronicle expressing concern over rumours the hall was on the...
THE first-ever competing band from Down Under proved a hit with the crowds at the Whit Friday Band contests. Cheers of “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi” rung out...
HUNDREDS of revellers had a splashing good time on the giant Dr Kershaw’s Hospice waterslide on Saturday. Yorkshire Street became a 370ft ride of fun as part of the...
THEY came in their hundreds, oblivious of the icy winds and biting rain, to share and celebrate the unique People’s Day... From stately hillside churches to a humble...
FESTIVITIES at the Whit Friday band contests remained safe with police reporting little trouble from across Saddleworth. Chief Supt Catherine Hankinson, who was in charge of...
ATHLETIC have defensive sights trained elsewhere after it was revealed George Elokobi and Adam Lockwood have turned down their contract offers from the club. New deals on...
HAVING lost their last two away games at Barrow and Keighley, Scott Naylor’s Oldham have a chance to redeem themselves when North Wales Crusaders come to Whitebank on...
KEIGHLEY COUGARS 32, OLDHAM 24 KEIGHLEY ran away with the first half; Oldham dominated the second. But when you analyse this game and get down to the brass tacks of the...
AWAY form is starting to become an issue for Scott Naylor, who said Oldham’s performance in a 32-24 defeat at Keighley could be similarly compared with the 30-18 loss at...
YAYA Toure has confirmed he will stay at Manchester City — and is confident the club’s summer recruitment will see them challenge for major honours next season. The...
TRIBUTES were paid to Oldham actress Anne Kirkbride at her memorial service in Manchester Cathedral on Saturday. More than 600 people, including fans, cast mates and producers,...
CRICKET: A MERGER between the Central Lancashire League and the Saddleworth and District Cricket League has moved a step closer. Club officials from the CLL gave...
A TEENAGE boy was arrested on Friday on suspicion of raping a girl in Oldham. Between 8pm and 9.30pm on May 5, a 17-year-old girl met a male on the tram as she travelled from...
Vandals went on a late night arson spree around Shaw on Friday, destroying a caravan, sheds and a van within an hour. Firefighters from Oldham and Chadderton were called to...
A YOUNG Failsworth football fan has received a signed Preston shirt from striker Jermaine Beckford. Ted Dockray (8) was presented with the jersey by the hat-trick hero after...
CHADDERTON’S Snow White missed out on a place in the “Britain’s Got Talent” final. Enola Dyer and her girl group Misstasia made it to Friday’s...
SIX months ago assistant headteacher Marc Edwards spotted an image on Twitter that would change his perspective on life forever. The picture was the now-famous one of...
A STORE manager has apologised after staff told a blind man he couldn’t take his guide dog into the shop. John Rogers (62), of McDonough Close, was at the Fitton Hill...
A GLAMOROUS Oldham gym owner is on top of the world after picking up a top fitness award. Kate Wright (32), the owner of Heavenly Bodies Gym in Moorside, won the Bikini Diva...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards RIPON 2.25 Fashionable Spirit 2.55 Mythical City (nap) 3.25 Hydrant...
BOWLS: THE £1,550 JW Lees Bowling Classic at Hopwood Unionist Club, Heywood, gets underway tonight (6.30pm) when Tonge’s Nicky Brooks begins the defence of his...
Date Published 29/05/2015
RUGBY: OLDHAM St Anne’s aim to make it back-to-back home victories when they take on Underbank Rangers tomorrow (2.30pm kick-off). The Kingstone Press National Conference...
Angling: STEVE Baines topped the Twingates AC Tuesday match for the second week running. His pole and pellet tactics netted 14lb 9oz of skimmers and a solitary 4lb carp. Tony...
DELPH Band and Delph Youth Band are taking part in a special concert as part of English folk band the Houghton Weavers’ 40th anniversary tour. The concert is on Friday,...
AROUND 400 people have helped Hathershaw College to celebrate its 60th anniversary. Former staff and pupils attended an open day at the Bellfield Avenue school - whose layout...
Reporter ROBBIE GILL joins police as the force runs a five-day operation to crack down on drivers who use their mobile phone while driving. DURING a patrol with traffic cop PC...
A FAULTY phone line left a 90-year-old woman without the use of her emergency call button for nearly two weeks. There has been no dial tone on Peggy Hopkins’s phone since...
