COMMUNITY groups and sports clubs throughout Shaw and Crompton have chance to boost their organisations’ projects with a £500 grant. The money is being made…
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5,000 purple crocuses form bright tribute to Rotary past president
FIVE thousand crocuses will bloom bright in Tandle Hill Park as a lasting tribute to Crompton and Royton Rotary Club’s Past President David Holt. David…
View More 5,000 purple crocuses form bright tribute to Rotary past presidentJoin the Elite: Shaw gym is one big happy family
HUSBAND and wife Jordan and Katie Smithies are proud of their growing family. And the couple expect new arrivals all the time as word of…
View More Join the Elite: Shaw gym is one big happy familySt Josephs’ students help fulfil dying patient’s wish
ACE fundraiser Anne Thornton has praised Dr Kershaw’s Hospice and teaching staff for making a dying wish come true for her father. Ninety-year-old Ken Plowright…
View More St Josephs’ students help fulfil dying patient’s wishBoxing clever – Gillian is TV star after her life-saving cancer spot
A SHAW woman credited with saving the life of Piers Morgan has appeared on television alongside the TV presenter and journalist to urge the public…
View More Boxing clever – Gillian is TV star after her life-saving cancer spotProgress to come for Oldham promises council leader in New Year message
THERE is plenty of progress to come for Oldham in 2018 is the New Year message from council leader Jean Stretton. In her Leader’s Blog,…
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Royton Co-op community scheme pays out for Explorers and youth group
SHOPPERS to Royton Co-op helped to raise more than £7,000 for two organisations, with three more in the running to benefit from a cash windfall…
View More Royton Co-op community scheme pays out for Explorers and youth groupGoing pole to pole with Nordic Walkers
MORE than five years after volunteering at the London 2012 Olympics, Jean and John Norman are still doing their bit for the community. Inspired by…
View More Going pole to pole with Nordic WalkersWood you believe it? Andi’s burning ambition turns into new venture
HANDS up those readers who know – without resorting to Google – what pyrography is the study of? We didn’t know either until resourceful Andi…
View More Wood you believe it? Andi’s burning ambition turns into new ventureTeacher Jim retires with perfect attendance record at Crompton House
JIM Upton hasn’t had a day off sick in 21 years as a teacher at Crompton House School. But he is looking forward to plenty…
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