Following a recent spate of MDMA poisoning, including one in Oldham, a leading US drug safety group are calling for the introduction of drug-checking at events like the Warehouse Project.

Bradley Dack’s deflected volley with 20 minutes remaining earned Gillingham all three points and left Johnson rueing missed chances.

A womanising brute from Oldham, who stabbed his secret mistress to death after he amassed a string of lovers behind his wife’s back, is facing life in jail.

A campaign is underway to see a statue of Winston Churchill erected in Oldham by Councillor Howard Sykes who hopes the statue will celebrate his ‘very real connection’ with the town.

A warning has been sent out by Greater Manchester Police about the dangers of drug taking, after an Oldham teenager collapsed from taking contaminated MDMA.

After a goalless first half Carl Winchester scored his first of the season with a curling 20-yard shot before Liam Kelly’s precise free-kick secured the points for the Latics.

David Cameron’s proposed ‘snoopers’ charter’ puts the public’s privacy in jeopardy for nothing – as terrorists such as those in Paris were already known to police, claims a Greater Manchester MP.

A drug-fuelled killer who was shot with a Taser gun by police minutes after he stabbed his girlfriend in her Oldham home said, ‘I enjoyed that. You need more volts’, a court heard today.

Manager Lee Johnson expects this week’s developments in the Ched Evans saga will not deter fans from getting behind his team as they face Doncaster Rovers, the Latics looking to start afresh after a torrid end to 2014.

The MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth has warned of the increasing pressure A&E hospital staff are under from the NHS winter crisis and has criticised the government saying their reaction to the crisis ‘beggars belief’.

The club had looked set to sign the former Manchester City striker earlier this week, but various pressures have steered the club’s hand.