Akila Naqqash, 31, said she was 'gobsmacked' after Sahil came on the phone after his 12-day kidnap ordeal to say: "I'm OK Mum".

Andrew Molloy, 25, was knocked unconscious and suffered serious head and face injuries after a night-out in Oldham.

Jackie Nellis has resigned from her £100,000 job as principal designate from The Waterhead Academy, which will replace Breeze Hill and Counthill schools.

Police were called to the scene at 1.50pm, on Monday, March 15, when they discovered the man.

Barbara Taylor was in the living room of her Wetherby Avenue home when the drama unfolded at 11.15pm on Monday.

been spared jail.

Mohammed Adriece, 23, of Greengate Street, Glodwick, Oldham, was trying to

overtake another vehicle at 45mph on Oldham Road when his Volkswagen Golf

careered out of control and smashed into a bus.

The 16-year-old victim was waiting for a bus on Manchester Road, Oldham, near to the Smut Inn when she was attacked by a man who first made lewd comments.

Sharon Hunt and Wayne Trayers pleaded guilty at Oldham Magistrates' Court to contravening a noise abatement notice put in place after complaints of loud music and shouting.

Transport chiefs are proposing a futuristic transport interchange in the town’s ‘East End’ for trams, buses and cars as part of the Metrolink scheme.

Little Lilly Wilson was born just over 12 months after the tragic death of her older half-brother William.

Alf and Margaret Selby from Garden Suburbs endured 31 days of desperate uncertainty when their son Tim was kidnapped and held hostage in Bangladesh in 2001.

‘Gentle giant’ Karl Nigel Mansfield was a popular figure both at home in Royton and in Oldham town centre where he volunteeered at the Salt Cellar Christian centre.

After years of planning and months of building work, the £17m treatment centre – run by Manchester’s famous cancer hospital, The Christie, on the site of the Royal Oldham Hospital – is finished.

For almost 20 years Simon Cooper was part of The Guvnors, a notorious gang of Manchester City FC fans.

As part of the 'scheme' it will apply to the Charity Commission for permission to swap the charitable status of 8.6 acres of land north of the Lancaster Club with an as yet unidentified site.

Fire-fighters in Hollins were called out a dozen times on Monday and Tuesday to reports of fires in the First Avenue of the area.

She flew by helicopter over the remote moorland where killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley hid Keith’s body. The little boy, who was 12 when he disappeared in 1964, is the only one of their child victims not to be found.

The Rev John Simmons, 55, from Christ Church, Chadderton, Oldham, loves to cheer on Oldham Athletic.

The five-year-old was snatched by armed robbers from his grandmother’s house in Pakistan on the last day of a two-week family holiday with his father.

The thief followed the 14-year-old onto the 184 bus in Lees on January 20. At about 8.45pm, the victim left the the bus on Lees Road at its junction with Glodwick Street, closely followed by the offender.

Oldham Council – which is set to cut 500 jobs – spent £145 a head sending 20 politicians and officers to the Marriott Worsley Park Hotel and Country Club.

Reports from Pakistan yesterday suggested there had been a breakthrough in the search for the Oldham five-year-old.

She spent a few brief hours with her newborn baby before she was sedated and put on a ventilator. She did not regain consciousness before her death six weeks later.

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But last July the soccer starlets were left in tears when officials told them they couldn’t.

Ten years ago, Oldham had one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the country.

Father-of-one Shaun Slicker was diagnosed with the condition – which affects the way the brain coordinates body movements – solving a medical conundrum which baffled doctors for four years.shaun_s_slicker@live. co. uk.

Paul Lee spent more than a decade working on building sites after leaving school.

But that is the scenario regularly faced by Michael Crichton-Kane – a daredevil helicopter pilot from Saddleworth.

An inquest heard he had traces of cannabis in his system but a coroner ruled that it could not determined if the drug had been a factor in causing the accident.

Police are hunting a man in connection with a £1/4million bank fraud.

They want to trace Rthammed Ashraf Chowdry, 42, known as Taz, after fraudsters stole £263,000 from the Natwest bank in Oldham.

Salford is to shed 400 and Oldham 500 as a squeeze is expected on public spending.

The 18-year-old and three friends were assaulted by a gang of up to seven Asian youths on Ellen Street, Westwood, near to the old Wickes store, between 5.30pm and 6.30pm on February 17.

Oldham Athletic wanted to move from their dilapidated Boundary Park home to a purpose-built 12,000 capacity ground in Failsworth.

The first incident happened in the early hours of Saturday when the victim was making a delivery to a house on Cherry Avenue on the Alt Estate. He got out of his car and was punched in the face by the offender, who is described as white, 18-years-old, 6ft tall, of slim build with a clear complexion.

The victim was in his Volkswagen Golf on Miller Road, when a man knocked on his window. The 25-year-old driver opened his car door and was dragged out by the offender who then got in and sped off towards Copster Hill Road.

Osman Ahmed fell beneath the wheels of a taxi on Ashton Road near its junction with Villa Road last Wednesday.

It means the overall bill for an average band D property increase to £1542.84 per year.

Failsworth West councillor Ian Barker and his wife Jennifer, then the Tory group’s part-time researcher, were arrested and bailed on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act in July last year.

The meeting was due to take place at the Lancaster Club, Failsworth, from 3pm to 9pm.

Qualified plumber and kitchen fitter Jonathan Fletcher has resorted to walking the streets of Oldham town centre advertising for work on a sandwich board.

Muhammad Amir, 38, who owns Broadway News on Broadway Street, Hathershaw, was confronted by two men wearing balaclavas during the raid on Saturday at 7.30pm.

Angor Miah, 42, had been sent to crown court for sentencing after pleading guilty to 14 food hygiene breaches at Oldham Magistrates’ Court in November.

Cancer patients will be seen at the state-of-the-art satellite centre from the week beginning Monday, March 15.

Danny Fitzsimons, aged 29, faces the possible death penalty if found guilty of killing ArmorGroup workers Paul McGuigan, of Peebles, Scotland, and Australian Darren Hoare, both 37, in Baghdad’s high-security Green Zone in August 2009.

The local authority has now hired Jeremy Morgan QC - an eminent lawyer in the field of costs appeals – to represent them.

Greater Manchester Police have named the five most wanted offenders in each of its division as part of Operation Sabre and want the help of readers to take them off the streets.

Two men wearing balaclavas and carrying twelve-inch knives confronted the 37-year-old victim, and one of them held the weapon to his throat.

In October 2008, Shazad Akhtar, 36, was jailed for 18 months after pleading guilty to eight counts of benefit fraud.

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The blaze started in the downstairs bedroom of a dormer bungalow on Edge Hill Road, Royton, at around 11.20pm.

The boy, named locally as Usman Ali, was crossing Ashton Road near its junction with Villa Road with his two younger sisters when he was struck by a taxi.

Oldham Athletic could face a High Court battle over their plans to build a £20m stadium in Failsworth.

The Charity Commission says it is unable to decide whether the land at Failsworth Lower Memorial Park is a charitable trust or if it is simply council-owned recreation land.

Two separate applications have been approved for 14 flats and for 41 houses and eight apartments on the site off Huddersfield Road.

Carillion JM Ltd pleaded guilty to three health and safety breaches at Manchester Crown Court.

The 50-year-old, who hails from Shaw, was handed the honour by Greenfield Real Ale Brewery.

Cllr John Hudson said: "Let's give the young people what they want. It's better stuffing themselves with chicken than hanging about on the street causing mischief."

An inquest heard that doctors failed to spot signs that Lola Wood was suffering from heart problems when she and her twin sister were readmitted to hosptial at five days old suffering from jaundice.

St Anne’s Royton has been chosen as the new home for the haunting sculpture Dachau.