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1. Boundary fight steps up a gear
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 6 September 2006CAMPAIGNERS fighting to cut Saddleworth's links with Oldham Council are taking their message to the streets on Saturday.
2. The lad deserves a medal
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 6 September 2006CALLS have been made this week for a young Oldham soldier to be given a gallantry medal after he braved an enemy mortar attack to save the life of an injured comrade in Iraq.
3. Rapist is finally caged 14 years after attack
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 27 September 2006A RAPIST who attacked a pregnant woman at knifepoint has been trapped by forensic evidence - uncovered more than 14 years after his victim's ordeal.
4. Play on! Theatre and library saved
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 20 September 2006A NEW charity is to take over The Millgate Centre in Delph, helping secure the future of the village library for the next three decades.
5. Save the last dance for free final fling
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 21 February 2007IT'S been the starting point for many a happy marriage - and some rather less long-term romances - but now the disco balls are about to stop twinkling at one of Oldham's best-known nightclubs.
6. How we stepped in for the workers
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 19 December 2007THE OLDHAM Advertiser has helped ensure that workers from a Saddleworth mill get a fair compensation hearing after claiming the noisy environment left them permanently scarred.
7. Coroner holds out for more info on teacher's death
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 25 May 2007AN INQUEST into the death of an Oldham born teacher who was slaughtered in Pakistan three years ago has not ruled out more information coming to light from a police investigation.
8. E.Coli cases at nursery on rise
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 23 May 2007NINE people have now been infected with the E.Coli 0157 bug, in an outbreak linked to the Ambrose Nook Nursery in Derker.
9. Conman swindled pensioner out of her home
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 18 May 2007A CONMAN who cheated a 75-year-old Oldham woman out of her home and life savings has been jailed for four years.
10. Climber bids to solve Everest’s greatest mystery
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 13 June 2007A MOUNTAINEER from Uppermill is part of an Everest expedition which hopes to discover what happened to British climber George Mallory in his final hours on the world's highest peak.