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1. ‘I can help combat yobs’
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 28 December 2005A COMMUNITY worker who helped lead a pioneering and successful project to combat anti-social behaviour in Salford believes his theories could be used to tackle the same problem in Oldham.
2. ‘Historic school has no future’
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 28 December 2005COUNCILLOR Jeremy Sutcliffe has sounded the death knell on the old Eustace Street School and accused opposition councillors of caring more about a "crumbling Victorian edifice than 21st Century people".
3. Homelessness rates hitting new highs
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 28 December 2005HUNDREDS of people in Oldham are facing a miserable new year, with new government figures showing that our borough has one of the highest rates of homelessness in the North West.
4. We need more men!
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 28 December 2005EXCLUSIVE FEMALE members of Oldham Coliseum's over-50s club have a special New Year's Resolution - to attract more men!
5. Thousands affected by payments office closure
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 28 December 2005EXCLUSIVE A KEY facility used by thousands of borough residents each month will be axed as part of the council's latest cost-cutting measures.
6. 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.
7. Frances needs help to find old friend
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 28 December 2005AN OLDHAM native wants to enlist Advertiser readers in providing her with the best New Year and 60th birthday present she could hope for - a reunion with one of her oldest friends.
8. Shops hold their own amid talk of ‘gloom’
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 28 December 2005OLDHAMERS showed few signs of tightening their belts this Christmas - despite the latest gloomy economic figures relating to the borough.
9. Cops call out the dogs in drug war
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 21 December 2005POLICE have called in the dogs in a bid to stamp out drug abuse in town centre pubs and clubs over the festive period.
10. Hundreds celebrate the life of mum of two killed in car crash
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 21 December 2005FATHER-of-two Shane Lees walked on crutches for half an hour in the rain to be at a tribute afternoon in honour of his partner who was killed in a horror road smash.