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WITH one foot tentatively hovering over a sandy beach, Athletic hustled and harried here but were found wanting on two crucial occasions. Backing up the monumental effort in...
Date Published 18/04/2017
A LAST-DITCH tackle on Adam Clay in the dying seconds robbed Oldham of the win they deserved with a much-changed team at Halifax last night. Having scored three tries to Fax's...
MANCHESTER United's dominance against Chelsea shocked even more than their win, but Ashley Young believes such a performance has been coming - and now the stand-in captain wants...
ROCHDALE Mayfield regained the Napier Windows-sponsored Oldham Amateur League Standard Cup with a comfortable 32-8 success over Oldham St Anne's at Manor Park. Saints, the...
ALEX Givvons, a well-known member and former president of Crompton and Royton Golf Club, and a leading rugby league referee in the 1970s and 1980s, has died in hospital after a...
MOSSLEY finally sealed their Evo-Stik League Division One North safety as they came from behind to beat Glossop North End 2-1 at Seel Park. In a feisty game which saw Mossley's...
Halifax 16, Oldham RL 14 OLDHAM RL outscored hosts Halifax by three tries to two, but left West Yorkshire empty-handed in the Kingstone Press Championship clash. Kieran...
Date Published 17/04/2017
BRISTOL ROVERS 1, ATHLETIC 0 ELLIS Harrison struck the winning goal as Athletic were edged out in a tight game at the Memorial Stadium. Goalkeeper Connor Ripley was called...
ATHLETIC 1, BOLTON 0 LEE Erwin claimed his 10th goal of the season as 10-man Athletic took a huge leap to safety with a superb victory over promotion chasing Bolton. Michael...
Date Published 15/04/2017
Oldham RL 22, Swinton Lions 18 OLDHAM RL set themselves up nicely for Monday night's trip to Halifax with an important win over Swinton Lions at Bower Fold. Roughyeds coach...
UPDATED in 2016, the Volkswagen up! is a boxy-looking but surprisingly spacious city car that has won many fans since its launch here in the UK in 2012 and has won several...
Fast & Furious is also funny, but oddly lightweight I remember watching the original The Fast and The Furious way back in 2001. Back then it was dismissed as a pale copy of...
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Date Published 14/04/2017
A DAD whose quick-thinking actions helped prevent a potentially fatal disaster after a car crashed on a 100ft cliff edge in Whitby has been presented with an award for his...
A NEW initiative has been launched in Oldham to combat loneliness and isolation. Mum-of-one Alexandra Hoskyn has set up the Chatty Café Scheme to create a space for...
RESIDENTS have criticised the construction of a 'monstrous' new growing hub in Dunwood Park which has ruined their view. The polytunnel, which was constructed at the bottom of...
SADDLEWORTH sheep farmers are facing a new threat in their bid to protect pregnant flocks - unthinking off-road cyclists who are terrifying ewes ready to give birth. Now police...
FEMALE football stars of the future are invited to a coaching meet and greet by England and Manchester City Women midfielder Jill Scott. After launching her brand new Womens...
TWO MASSIVE games loom over the coming weekend, but nothing will ultimately be decided until the derby clash with Rochdale next week. That is the view of John Sheridan, ahead...
CHILDREN have been busy creating signs urging residents to look after the grass verges in Oldham. Their efforts are to tackle what has been described as "increased neglect...
IT IS understood that Crompton Conservative Club on Queen Street has closed its doors for the final time. The building appears to be vacant with the doors of the premises of...
THE number of attacks on staff at a hospital trust which oversees the Royal Oldham Hospital have surged, a new report found. A total of 16.8 per cent of staff at Pennine Acute...
A FIREFIGHTER was assaulted while attempting to extinguish a fire at a property in Chadderton last night. A crew from Chadderton were called to Bamford Street to reports of a...
OLDHAM Council has alerted residents to further roadworks along the A62. The second phase of improvements to junctions will begin at Manchester Road/Frederick Street in the...
MORE than 60 youths in Failsworth and Hollinwood were "causing mayhem" in the area. GMP's Failsworth and Hollinwood posted on its Twitter account on Tuesday evening...
SPRING AND PORT WINE Oldham Coliseum, (to April 29) WELL, this takes me back. I remember seeing this at the cinema back at the turn of the Seventies, which tells me two...
OLDHAM were taking no chances on the fitness of prop Ben Davies when they faced Swinton Lions at Bower Fold today in the first of their two Easter games. A calf strain picked...
BOLTON winning promotion back to the Championship would put a smile on John Sheridan's face - as long as they don't secure the prize tomorrow. A former Wanderers midfielder of...
Royton Athletic 1, Horseshoe 8 ASH Ainsworth bagged four goals to boost Horseshoe's promotion hopes in David Giblin Division One of the Oldham Sunday League at Clayton playing...
IT could be the end of an era for the Oldham Referees' Association. The society was re-formed in August, 1919 after the First World War and has been in existence ever since....
