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1. There has to be a Plan B for trams
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 17 December 2008HAS Oldham’s town centre tram link finally fallen off the rails or is there still another way it could be funded?
2. NO: A small word that has big implications for Oldham – but the fight for trams goes on
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 17 December 2008OLDHAM’S dream of seeing Metrolink trams running into the town centre has NOT reached the end of the line.
3. Damages at last for dad struck by goalposts
Oldham Advertiser, Tuesday 23 December 2008A SHAW man has won his five-year legal battle after a metal goalpost fell on him during a kickabout with his son.
4. Text messages help surgeon save a life
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 10 December 2008WHEN surgeon David Nott had to perform a rare, lifesaving operation on a teenage boy in wartorn Congo he decided to phone a friend.
5. C-Day is coming
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 3 December 2008ALMOST a third of Oldhamers have already cast their votes in the Congestion Charging referendum that will decide the future of public transport in the region.
6. ‘Let’s end booze culture’
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 3 December 2008TOP-RANKING civic, health and police officials are vowing to call time on Oldham’s harmful booze culture in 2009.
7. Panto legend ready to play the dame once more
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 3 December 2008OLDHAM’S evergreen pantomime prince is giving his family a very special present this Christmas.
8. Not a ‘flantastic’ week for Woolas
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 29 October 2008SOME weeks are more eventful than others, and Phil Woolas MP may not look upon the last seven days as being exactly ‘flantastic’.
9. It’s free to ‘lap it up’
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 29 October 2008THOUSANDS of laptop computers – as well as free Internet access – are to be given away in Oldham in an attempt to bridge ‘the digital divide’.
10. Pupils ‘not getting the education they deserve’
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 29 October 2008ST AUGUSTINE’S school has been served an official ‘notice to improve’ by a government inspector.