Around 50 players, friends and family of Chris, will be taking to the pitch at Boundary Park tonight (May 17) for the charity game in aid of Amnesty International.

The new facility, an expansion of the existing A&E department, will aim to improve waiting times and make the department more welcoming for patients.

Supply teacher Karl Highton, of Halifax Road, Grains Bar, pleaded guilty to seven offences relating to food hygiene issues at the John Bull Great British Takeaway, on Shaw Road.

Nine houses in Oldham and Bury were raided - part of a police operation run jointly by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) to tackle gun crime.

It happened on the car park of the former Booths Garden Centre, Turf Lane, Royton.

Nomination papers for anyone intending to stand must be returned to the Elections Office no later than midday on May 16.

It happened in Hathershaw at 6.40am on Friday after an underground cable fault.

In retaliation, she threw her drink and the glass at the man, prompting him to punch her in the face and she fell to the floor.

His sister Kursum Begum, 48, and her husband Hameed Khan, 60, have spoken exclusively to us. They asked us not to reveal their address or faces because of fears of reprisals.

We have learned officers have identified four more suspects alleged to have abused the brave witness whose evidence helped nail nine gang members.

Alior Rahman, 28, of Heron Street, Oldham, and Christopher Allen, 26, of McKie Close, Oldham, have been charged with possession of drugs with intent to supply.

Firefighters worked through the night to extinguish the flames at the former Faithworks church, on Oldham Road, Failsworth.

Oldham Community Leisure’s budget gym brand, Glo-Gyms, has seen rocketing numbers of users at Crompton, Glodwick and Royton pool and leisure centres. But all three centres are due to close their doors as part of the controversial shake-up of services across the borough.

Ainsley Parfitt, 51, of Bower Street, Oldham, pleaded guilty to drink driving at Oldham magistrates’ court.

But the milestone is a bittersweet moment for the youngster whose health has taken a turn for the worse.

The long-awaited line has been delayed due to problems with a new computer control system.

The house, in Saddleworth, was empty after the owner died on April 19.

Four people were arrested and what officers believe to be class A drugs were recovered on Belgrave Road.

Neil Carr was found not guilty of 20 sex offences at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.

The 67-year-old was said to be extremely ill at Dr Kershaw's Hospice and passed away on Wednesday (April 25).

Lee Wilson, 18, from Blackley, Manchester, died after the smash at Chadderton Hall Park in Oldham.

Reporter Chris Morris will be sending updates from the meeting to our live blog below from 6pm (click here to read the blog on a mobile device).

Grace Adeleye, 66, of Sarnia Court, Salford, is alleged to have caused the death of Goodluck Caubergs, from Oldham, by gross negligence two years ago.

The 65-year-old, from Top Street, Greenacres, suffered injuries to her face, hands and legs, when the blaze spread from a clothes maiden placed to close to the fire to the living room carpet and kitchen.

Giant swans and water-lilly lanterns, waterfalls of flames and dazzling pyrotechnics lit up the Failsworth canal basin as part of the Illuminate fire and water festival.

Hector Boon sat in the barber’s chair at St Mary’s Hospital where tiny Luna remains after being born three months early. His first cut was part of a drive by the Inspiral Carpets star’s family to raise cash for specialist care at the unit – as revealed in Saturday’s M.E.N.

John Farrell, 73, was diagnosed with a life-threatening leaking artery after falling ill at his Middleton home in January.

Cannabis and a substance believed to be cocaine were both found at the property on Ascot Close.

Flames from one of the bins spread to a clothing bank while the other blaze narrowly avoided a nearby shop.

Little Megan Kinghorn noticed the City boss munching a packet of Fruit Pastilles on the touchline at the Etihad Stadium.

The Chadderton North councillor says he took the decision given his age and was making way for 'new blood'.

Iuliana Costea was part of a gang who roamed Manchester city centre with fake donation forms for Unicef.

Eight people a day use the front desk at Saddleworth while Failsworth and Royton stations got 12 visitors a day.

Saddleworth was one of the the worst hit areas this morning with Huddersfield Road, Diggle, blocked in both directions because of broken down lorries.

Ashleigh Bowskill became wedged in the gap between the roundabout and the ground as she played.

The town is to become the first in the North West to get a top speed of 120Mb – fast enough to download an entire music album in just five seconds.

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Tabassum Gulnar 34, was challenged as he headed through nothing to declare after collecting the bag from a carousel having jetted in from Pakistan.

The blaze was in a ginnell on Ashley Street, Westwood, when arsonists set a discarded mattress on fire.

The blaze engulfed six acres of grass at the Greenfield nature park.

The blaze, which damaged several plots and destroyed outbuildings and their contents, followed a spate of break-ins and vandalism at the allotments in Failsworth, Oldham.

Hundreds visited a public consultation at Royton Youth Centre to view the proposals. Two versions – one with traditional and the other modern architectural designs – were presented alongside initial site plans.

Muniba Altaf, Rida Khalid and Maisha Rahman each put their life-saving knowledge into practise to prevent a family member choking.

Mum-of-three Susan May has always denied beating and smothering her 89-year-old aunt Hilda Marchbank at the pensioner’s home in Royton near Oldham in 1992.

She was taken to hospital with suspected spinal injuries but was later discharged.

Phoebe Price is now one of the country’s top young players and the 15-year-old, a pupil at Manchester High School for Girls, will jet to Romania next month to fly the flag for England in the world school championships.

But mum-of-three Claire, 46, instead endured nearly five years of treatment after a catalogue of mistakes by medics – and had to take a year off work because she was in so much pain.

Some donned shorts and T-shirts while others dressed up for the occasion which saw friends and family run, walk and even bounce a one, three or six mile circuit.

The manager said the young girl had twice asked to move away from the care home he was running in the Rochdale area.

The girl told a jury how Mohammed Sajid, who she knew as Saj, picked her up in his car on a Rochdale street and asked if she wanted to ‘chill’ with him. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was in her early teens at the time.