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BURY-BORN movie director Danny Boyle is to host one of May’s opening weekend events at HOME, Manchester’s new international arts centre. The film, theatre and opera...
Date Published 28/04/2015
A CRACKING night is in prospect at Royton Cricket Club on Friday, May 15, when indie rockers The Visitors are the chief support to ace Oldham DJ Clint Boon. The Inspiral...
WHO will follow in the footsteps of Dene Hibbert and win this year’s Green Final Bowling Handicap? The Chronicle competition's 2015 renewal gets underway in June and...
MICK Harwood’s IQ Tunes record store launch was described by the man himself as “an absolute success”. The new vinyl store - Oldham’s first in more than...
BOXING: OLDHAM boxers Danny Wright and Jack Rafferty both missed out on ABA Elite finals glory at the Liverpool Echo Arena. Failsworth-based Wright (18) lost in the...
GREEN-fingered residents can get involved with a community allotment plot off Park Avenue every Tuesday and Saturday from 10.30am-12.30pm. Call Failsworth Growing Ambassador...
AND the wait goes on: Oldham St Anne’s, Saddleworth Rangers and Waterhead Warriors continue to find it tough-going in the Kingstone Press National Conference...
A PRESTIGIOUS professorship has been awarded to Greenfield transport expert Richard Knowles. The former Oldham mayor received an Emeritus Professorship for his work on...
AN Oldham soldier helped to carry the coffin of one of six unknown World War One soldiers at an emotional re-interment ceremony near Ypres. Kingsman Ben Holland (26) of the 1st...
BRING colour to Dr Kershaw’s by making a dedication to someone who has brought colour to your life as the hospice launches this year’s Rainbow of Ribbons...
A WATERHEAD care home is celebrating after being named as one of the top 20 in the North-West. Millfield Care Home, Huddersfield Road, was the 19th most recommended care home...
SUPER students were thanked for all their hard work at this year’s Student of the Year Awards. The event, organised by the Rotary Club of Oldham, acknowledged students...
THE secretary of Chadderton Historical Society has been awarded the British Empire Medal. Michael Lawson (71) received the honour in recognition of his services to heritage and...
CRICKET: DELPH endured a mixed weekend in the Drakes Huddersfield League Premiership. Saturday’s rain-interrupted clash at Shepley saw the visitors set a revised target of...
CRICKET: MOORSIDE mean business in the 2015 SWB Commercials Saddleworth and District Cricket League season. After treating Friarmere with disdain on opening day, they gave...
A GROUP of youngsters and men chased three masked men who had tried to rob an Oldham jewellery store - and caught one of them. The raid trio, armed with a sledge hammer, a...
A MAN who fired a gun at two people in a parked car at Watersheddings has been jailed for 20 years. Andrew Burke (36), of HMP Manchester, was convicted of two counts of assault...
A FORMER partner of an alleged sadistic, and abusive womaniser sobbed as she described how he had regularly abused her. The 28 year old told a hushed Manchester courtroom how...
Oldhamers have raised money to put a memorial plaque on the favourite bench of one of the town’s best-known characters. Geoffrey Clover (71) - nicknamed Rambo - was found...
CHADDERTON has added a second masterful chef to the weekend’s Masterchef winner Simon Wood. This year’s Young Pastry Masterchef of Great Britain is Reece Hunt (20),...
TONY Philliskirk hailed his band of young stars as Athletic's under-18s hammered highly-rated MK Dons to win silverware with a swagger. Dominant from the start - though...
A RETIRED doctor has described the terrifying moment he and two fellow members of the Oldham Mountain Rescue team were caught up the devastating Nepal earthquake that has so far...
OLDHAM RL club hopes that talks between fans and chairman Chris Hamilton last night have allayed some of the fans’ concerns about the club’s future. Five supporters...
THE school at the centre of a storm over its future location has been endorsed as “good” by Ofsted inspectors. Saddleworth School — which is to move to...
ATHLETIC 4 MK DONS 0 TWO goals from Ben Grant and a pair of fine long-range efforts by Devante Jacobs and Callum Etches helped Athletic to completely overpower MK Dons to claim...
Folk ‘n’ roller Paul McGladdery and his band the Uncommitted are gearing up to make plenty of noise. McGladdery (48), a legal executive by day, has been playing guitar and...
MANCHESTER City defender Pablo Zabaleta claims manager Manuel Pellegrini is not getting the respect he deserves. Speculation over the Chilean’s future has been...
FOOTBALL: CHADDERTON will head to AFC Darwen without fear tonight in what is the Broadway outfit’s biggest game in years. Chaddy have reached the North-West...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards ASCOT 2.25 Buratino (nb) 3.00 Montalcino 3.30 Forever Now 4.05...
NEXT time you feel a bit cheesed off at work, take a leaf out of MasterChef champion Simon Wood’s book. If the 38-year-old Chadderton father-of-four hadn’t had such a shocking...
Date Published 27/04/2015
