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1. Here’s to a happy couple
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 28 December 2005LEGAL history was made this week when Mary Harrison and Judith Tomlinson became the first gay couple in the borough to tie the knot in a civil partnership ceremony.
2. Judith and Mary will be first gay couple to marry
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 7 December 2005THE first gay couple who will be getting 'married' in Oldham visited the register office on Monday, following the change in the law which allows them to enter into civil partnerships.
3. ‘Sunshine Girl’ drowned in hotel swimming pool
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 23 November 2005THE parents of a young holiday rep, who drowned in a hotel swimming pool in the Canary Islands, have spoken of their struggle to come to terms with the nature of her death.
4. Dead woman’s will results in Royal row
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 16 November 2005A MAJOR row has erupted over a £10,000 legacy left by a pensioner to the Royal Oldham Hospital.
5. We’ve Gotham on the run again
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 26 October 2005THEY may be more used to tackling oncoming strikers than the criminals of Gotham City, but these two football players were happy to step out of the floodlights and into the spotlight on Tuesday.
6. Council tries to calm ‘regeneration’ fears
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 26 October 2005HOUSES in Failsworth and Hollinwood will not be demolished as part of an extension of the Housing Market Renewal (HMR) scheme.
7. Give us back our wheelchairs
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 26 October 2005EXCLUSIVE: THE Royal Oldham Hospital is aiming to put the brakes on wheelchair theft after revealing that a massive 250 have simply vanished.
8. Royal smoke free from New Year
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 19 October 2005OLDHAM'S top public health professional is urging the borough's pubs, cafes and restaurants to follow the example of the Royal Oldham and make a New Year's resolution to go smoke free from January 1.
9. After 31 years, their love is finally to be made legal
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 12 October 2005OLDHAM'S first gay couple to tie the knot in a civil partnership ceremony will do so on the day of their 31st anniversary - and the pair say they are proud to be pioneers for all the other same-sex couples in the borough.
10. Three’s no crowd
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 28 September 2005THEY say three is a magic number - and that's certainly what the newest pupils at one local school think.