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Saddleworth Rangers remain in contention to win rugby league’s National Conference League Division One. They beat Normanton Knights by 14 points to 4 on Saturday to stay top of the table with just three games to play. Their closest rivals, Bradford Dudley Hill, are still a single point behind following a [...] The view from Dobcross towards Uppermill and Pots and Pans yesterday evening. The weather will turn cool and wet this week, with a chance of snow. We may almost be in April but winter is forecast to return this week, for a day or two at least. Temperatures will be cold enough [...] Keith Bennett A new search for the body of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett has begun on Saddleworth Moor. The BBC has reported that the search is being funded by donations from “hundreds” of people. Keith was just 12 when he was murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in 1964. Despite repeated attempts [...] I moved to Dobcross earlier this year, and this week I finally got around to watching the movie Yanks. As just about everyone around here knows, it’s the World War II film starring Richard Gere which was shot partly on location in the village in the late 1970s. Here on Saddleworth [...] The latest issue of the Dobcross Diary is finished, and will be posted through letterboxes around the village over the next few days. It’s got the usual mixture of local news, articles and listings, with a particularly interesting story on the front page! This month’s Diary is being delivered along with an envelope so [...] The cricket season begins next month, and volunteers are being asked to join in with odd jobs to help get the ground at Delph and Dobcross CC ready for play. Anyone is welcome to join the club’s players and supporters at the ground, which is near the Old Bell on the Huddersfield Road in Delph, [...] A Help For Heroes charity night has been organised for St George’s Day at the Commercial pub in Uppermill. Organisers are going to putting on four live bands, and there’ll be a raffle too. St George’s Day, which is 23 April, falls this year on a Friday. The event will be free, but there’ll be [...] The BNP has revealed that Alwyn Stott will be its candidate for Oldham East and Saddleworth at the forthcoming general election. The far-right party finished fourth in the constituency at each of the last two elections. Mr Stott may be a familiar name to people in Shaw, where he has repeatedly stood in local elections. [...] Whit Friday in Uppermill (picture: Saddleworth Whit Friday Preservation Group) Campaigners who set up a Facebook group to show their backing for Saddleworth’s Whit Friday brass band contests have thanked their supporters. Fears four of the contests may not take place this year because of possible changes to traffic rules were eased by Oldham [...] Police are telling anyone with a trailer in our area to make sure it’s secure. The warning was included in the first e-mail sent by local officers as part of their new “E-WATCH” initiative. Pc Mark Clough from the Saddleworth and Lees Neighbourhood Policing Team said: “Recently we have had information to suggest that there [...]
St Anne's Church in Lydgate on a drizzly day yesterday. The showers could turn wintry again by the end of the weekend. Winter isn’t quite all over just yet. The milder conditions of the last couple of weeks are forecast to give way to colder temperatures and even the [...] Mossley’s unlikely push for a play-off place in the Unibond Division One North suffered a setback last night, as they lost 3-2 away to Chorley. The defeat ended an unbeaten run of six wins and a draw from seven matches. Andy Watson gave Mossley an early lead, only for Lee Shillito to equalise for the [...] Police in Saddleworth and Lees say that crime across our area has fallen. Details have been revealed as local officers concentrate efforts on Springhead this week, in the latest of their ‘village a month’ initiatives. The head of the local policing team, Inspector Danny Milovanovic, has reported “significant reductions in almost all key crime [...] |
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