Video Games: Oldham promise to embrace technology as they seek to climb football’s ladder again
Boro, hoping to achieve promotion from the second division of English football, made light work of Oldham in their 3-0 victory to reach the second round.
Middlesbrough have it coming to them in Capital One Cup, says Oldham boss Lee Johnson
Johnson says his side took confidence from Saturday’s 2-2 opening draw away to Colchester as they prepare to face Middlesbrough in the Capital One Cup first round.
The rolling dead: Zombie Oldham roller disco plans thriller to put life back into venue
An all-girl roller derby group are offering Mancunians the chance to join the hordes of the living dead in a roller disco to raise funds to renovate their decaying Oldham home on Friday.
Ex-England rugby starlet and pal died after drink and drugs horror smash in mum’s car, inquest hears
Jack Christian, 22, and Lee Perris, 23, had been drinking and taking drugs before taking Mr Perris’s mother’s car and driving it off on a frosty night without clearing the windscreen properly
‘Rot in hell’: Life in jail for Oldham road rage trucker who crushed motorist’s skull under 17-tonne lorry
Today, Mark Slater, 46, from Oldham, was ordered to serve a minimum of fifteen years in prison for the murder of 56-year old Trevor Allen
Murder: Salford road rage driver could face LIFE after crushing Oldham grandad’s head under 17-tonne lorry
A road rage trucker faces life in prison after being found guilty of murdering an Oldham motorist by deliberately driving his 17-tonne lorry over him following a petty row.
Just not up to it? Tory website compiling Labour’s own attacks on Ed Miliband targets five Manchester MPs
Oldham MP Michael Meacher has launched a vicious attack on Conservatives after the launch of a website showing criticism of Labour leader Ed Miliband – from his own party.
Ramadan fasters ignore rumbling bellies to deliver cakes across Manchester in Syrian aid scheme
Islamic Relief’s Cakes4Syria fundraising effort has seen volunteers, all fasting for Ramadan, deliver more than 15,000 cakes across the UK
Disabled Oldham tot’s dream to one day play football moves step closer as op fund tops £25,000
Leo Stott, from Shaw, Oldham, suffers from spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, which affects the bones and muscles in his legs.
Bedroom tax proves Tory taste for ‘unnecessary cruelty’, claims Oldham MP Michael Meacher
Bedroom tax is a ‘cruel, punitive and discriminatory’ policy, claims Oldham MP Michael Meacher in an explosive post on his blog.
Salford driver’s brain ‘exploded’ under 17-tonne lorry in horrific road rage incident, court hears
An angry Oldham trucker deliberately used his 17-tonne lorry to crush a Salford motorist to death after they became embroiled in a road rage row, a murder trial was told yesterday.
Horrified eyewitnesses saw Mr Allen’s head ‘explode’ and could hear bones breaking as the grandfather was dragged under the wheels of Slater’s DAF articulated lorry, a jury heard.