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Poundland customers 'disturbed' after chain starts selling Ouija boards
POUNDLAND has come under fire for selling Ouija boards in UK stores. The "spirit-world game" invites players and the friends to pose their questions to the dead. While Ouija boards are viewed as a harmless parlor trick by some, many, including
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Man had CS Gas without authority
A MAN of 27 has been given a community order and placed under curfew with electronic tagging after being found in possession of CS Gas without the required authority of the government. Nathan William Hendley, of Manor Street, Failsworth, had the
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Man, 28, knocked victim unconscious
A MAN of 28 has been given a 24-week prison sentence suspended for two years for committing an assault on a man which knocked him unconscious. Benjamin McHale, of Palm Grove, Chadderton, assaulted the man causing actual bodily harm on November 25
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Dangerous driving resulted in crash with police car
MAGISTRATES have ordered the arrest of a 19-year-old man who failed to turn up at the Tameside court to face justice for taking a car without the owner's consent and driving it dangerously before it collided with a police car. Jack James Crookendale
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Women often arrested ‘unnecessarily’ says MP
OLDHAM East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams says thousands of women are being arrested unnecessarily each year instead of being given the help and support they need. Debbie, who is co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the
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Evie Foulkes sheds her auburn locks to raise £900 to the Little Princess Trust
DEDICATED schoolgirl Evie Foulkes was immensely proud of her crowning glory ... her long auburn locks. But after spending 12 months carefully growing her tresses, the 10-year-old Greenfield Primary School pupil sacrificed it all for the Little Princess
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Local groups get £10K Covid helping hand from Tesco
SOME 20 groups across Oldham have benefited to the tune of £10,000 from Tesco's Covid-19 Community Fund since the start of lockdown six months ago. Through its Bags of Help initiative, and as part of the retailer's emergency response in supporting
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Explorer and fundraiser Steve Hill hails team of lockdown volunteers
INTREPID explorer and teacher Steve Hill has paid tribute to his charity’s team of volunteers who have helped raise more than £10,000 for good causes and supported the elderly and vulnerable through the coronavirus pandemic. Steve launched his own
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Oldham rescuers in three-hour operation to bring injured woman off moors
TWO valiant mountain rescue teams pooled their their talents to help save an injured female casualty in a field in the Arnfield area near Tintwistle. Oldham and Glossop Mountain Rescue Teams moved in on Sunday after North West Ambulance Service
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Riddle of mystery accident on the moors near Greenfield
MYSTERY is surrouning a late night incident which is believed to have involved three cars destroyed thousands of pounds worth of fencing and wrecked gates at a moorland farm. It happened on the A635 Greenfield-Holmfirth road last Friday night when
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Thousands of doors knocked on in Covid-19 response in Oldham
THOUSANDS of homes were knocked on and more than 800 residents tested by Oldham’s engagement and door to door testing teams following a second Covid-19 spike. Throughout the first two weeks of August, cases of coronavirus began to increase again
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Publishing of Covid cases ethnicity data in Oldham ‘led to racist abuse’
THE publishing of ethnicity data by about who is getting infected with Covid-19 has led to residents in Oldham being "racially abused" and discriminated against, a councillor claims. Speaking at a meeting of the borough’s scrutiny panels, Cllr Shoab
