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CRICKET: “A TERRIFIC player and a very genuine bloke.” is how former team-mate and Saddleworth and District Cricket League secretary Trevor Harrison described Doug Clarke, who has...
Date Published 23/04/2015
THE SKY’S the limit for up-and-coming band Paintbox Fires, ready to rock their way to victory at the Indie Week Europe Festival in Manchester in May. By day, 16-year-old...
Date Published 22/04/2015
As the political parties pound the streets and knock on doors in preparation for the General Election on May 7, pupils at Hathershaw College will be doing some canvassing of their...
Roger McGough at Oldham Coliseum Chronicle Online review by Norman Warwick OLDHAM Library Service has been running its annual Bookmark festival from April 18 and even by the...
SICKENING pictures of injuries allegedly inflicted by a torturer and rapist on his own girlfriend were found stored on his phone by shocked police. The graphic images stored on...
THE circumstances leading to a worker being crushed to death in a tragic accident at a Chadderton warehouse remain a mystery. Police were told on Friday morning that a member...
Attack victim John Young and his wife Elaine have spoken of his life being turned upside down after a yob threw a brick that blinded him in one eye. The newlyweds, who married...
FOUR men have been charged as part of a continuing investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rochdale. The charges relate to offences committed against one victim by...
LYNDHURST Primary School is failing to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education, say inspectors. The school has been placed in special measures by Ofsted after...
The Chronicle’s Managing Editor concludes the year-long saga of his battle with throat cancer. ON the last day of April, 2014, I heard the word...
ATHLETIC’S players will continue to be tested on and off the pitch right up to the final afternoon of the season. Manager Dean Holden is putting his squad through fitness...
NEW and exciting signing Tom Ashton is out of Sunday’s League One game against London Skolars at Whitebank (3pm kick-off). The former Sheffield Eagles man made a...
EVITA (George Lawton Hall, Mossley) JUST when you think Mossley AODS can’t put on a better show than the ones we have already seen, they go and raise the bar...
MANCHESTER United defender Chris Smalling has signed a new four–year contract. The 25–year–old England international is now committed to the Old Trafford...
POLICE have released this image of an Oldham man wanted in connection with a robbery and on recall to prison. Brett Charlton (38) breached his license conditions on July 15,...
STUDENTS have moved into a new £6 million building at Oldham College — and it’s a beauty! The three-storey building on the Rochdale Road campus is home to around 400...
Non-league football: MOSSLEY get the chance to secure some silverware tonight after a terrific season under joint bosses Peter Band and Lloyd Morrison. There is still some...
FOOTBALL: CHADDERTON’S North-West Counties League First Division play-off hopes still hang in the balance following a 1-1 draw at Cheadle Town. With two games now left to...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards SOUTHWELL 5.35 Rock Heroine (nb) 6.05 Lightning Spree 6.35 Sleet 7.05...
CELEBRATE St George’s Day in Oldham with three days of events across the borough. Oldham Council is encouraging residents to take part in this year’s celebrations,...
RUGBY: OLDHAM St Anne’s are still hunting down their first points of the season in Division Two, after losing a half-time advantage in going down 40-24 at home to...
Date Published 21/04/2015
RUGBY: A TRY and a pair of goals from Ben Whitehead weren’t quite enough to yield points for Saddleworth Rangers in their fifth straight defeat in the league. The...
TABLE TENNIS: OLDHAM table tennis ace Amir Hussain struck double gold for England at the annual Primary Schools’ International Championships. The 11-year-old Greenacres...
FOOTBALL: CHADDERTON could sneak back into the North-West Counties League First Division play-off places tonight with a win at Cheadle Town (7.45pm). Oldham Boro – who...
EVER thought of yourself as royalty? Girls in the borough have the chance to be crowned at the Failsworth Carnival in June. The royalty categories, open to girls aged five...
OLDHAM claimants of Jobseekers Allowance fell by over 150 between February and March, from 2,732 to 2,592, 1,562 of them men Since the same period last year, claimant numbers...
AN online video that features a spoof visit by Hitler to Springhead Liberal Club is to be removed The video has humorous English captions over the original German rant in a...
MUSIC: “YOU’LL never get this close to Lawson again,” I said to my teenage daughter as we squeezed into Manchester’s popular haunt the Gorilla. It was...
SS Aidan and Oswald RC Church brownies group is looking for a few extra adults to help the leaders for one hour a week. It is a good opportunity for women who are looking to...
A DRUG dealer was caught with £300,000 worth of cannabis when police raided his home. The 30kg stash was in vacuum-packed bags in three large boxes inside a cupboard at...
