Category: Lifestyle

The Face and Body shop in Grotton answers your health and beauty questions Send in your health and body questions for their experts to answer,…

View More The Face and Body Shop: suffering with acne

Uppermill Pharmacist IAN STRACHAN examines: Sprains and strains SPRAINS AND strains are injuries affecting both muscles and ligaments. Ligaments are bands of tissue connecting one bone…

View More Health matters: Sprains and strains

ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE for The Heroes of Waterloo CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS and New Year in style at a recently refurbished pub to make your festive season a…

View More Launch into the New Year with the Heroes of Waterloo

By Tom Paterson A SOULFUL seven piece band is preparing to raise the roof at Uppermill Civic Hall this month in a charity fundraiser. The…

View More Soul to soothe Saddleworth

Peter Hanlon looks at what identity means in Saddleworth THERE HAS long been a certain identity crisis in and around Saddleworth, which may be illustrated…

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Saddleworth Dementia Friends’ Champion, Helen Morris, shares some thoughts on dementia about ‘comfort and frustration’ THIS COULD be one of the most misunderstood issues for people living…

View More Living with Dementia: comfort and frustration

Grasscroft’s LIZ NORBURY, from the Hair & Beauty Therapies department of Oldham College, looks at new and exciting treatments at Salon 7  just in time…

View More Health and Beauty: new and exciting treatments just in time for Christmas

Cornet player and brass tutor Mark Rodgers gives us an insight into the band world with his column, Brassed Off. NOVEMBER CAN prove to be…

View More Brassed Off: The Loneliness of the Last Post Bugler

WRAP UP your Christmas shopping early with the Saddleworth Women’s Institute as they hold their fantastic festive Christmas Market on Wednesday, November 6. The shopping…

View More Get festive with Saddleworth WI

A STAR-STUDDED line-up will entertain at the Royal George in Greenfield as Off The Rails Comedy Club hold their penultimate performance of the year on…

View More Justin and The Geordies cook up a storm for Saddleworth

BE PREPARED to dance your shoes off at ‘The Threetles Christmas Party’ to Beatles hits and festive favourites at the Uppermill Civic Hall on Friday,…

View More Dance your shoes off this Christmas with The Threetles

THE WORLD famous and award-winning Grimethorpe Colliery Band will delight with an evening of brass music at the Uppermill Civic Hall on Saturday, November 23.…

View More Brass band stars come to Uppermill

AS CAROL singers warm up their voices for the festive season, one group is planning a music extravaganza with a difference – and invite you…

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FROM STRIPES and neon colours to animal print and scary faces, Greater Manchester Police Oldham got creative with their footwear as they raised funds for…

View More Police don fancy footwear for charity

RAY WITHNALL, owner of Diggle-based company Hay Tarn Wills, looks at Lasting Power of Attorney – Property and Financial Affairs  A LASTING Power of Attorney…

View More Legal eagle: advice from Hay Tarn wills

A CHRISTMAS extravaganza of entertainment and music will fill the Civic Hall in Uppermill as Symes and Them return for their annual festive fundraiser. This…

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Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some more interesting and entertaining strange but true facts for us – you just couldn’t make them up. WHEN…

View More Stan’s Strange but True – November

Jon Baylis brings you a five-day weather forecast for Saddleworth and a few statistics about last month’s weather Luckily we escaped the storm earlier this…

View More Come rain or shine? November

GLORIOUS SUNSHINE shone down on the first annual Digg Fest as guests packed Diggle Band Club to the rafters and raised more than £1,000 for…

View More Digglers dig first ever Diggfest

Saddleworth Dementia Friends’ Champion, Helen Morris, shares some thoughts on dementia about ‘Humour and Identity’ Each Dementia Friends Information Session brings something new to consider and this month I am…

View More Living with Dementia: Humour and identity

A STAR-STUDDED local line up will entertain at the third annual Dobcross Concert on Saturday, October 26 at Holy Trinity Church from 7.30pm. Popular folk group The…

View More Musical delights in Dobcross

ARE YOU ready to ‘Hey Rock & Roll’ and dance your ‘Three Steps to Heaven’?  Then join the ‘Dancing Party’ at the Uppermill Civic Hall because ‘You’ve Got What It Takes’!…

View More Showaddywaddy to rock Civic Hall

BRITAIN’S BLUEST comedian will shock and delight his audience at the Uppermill Civic Hall on Friday, November 22. Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown has become a huge superstar without appearing on television and…

View More Most outrageous comedian returns to Uppermill

By Dave MacDougall – Business Development Consultant at Think4 IT Solutions SO YOUR old PC is doing very well without any ‘help’ from the IT department.…

View More Can your old PC keep up?

A SADDLEWORTH man is encouraging others to follow in his footsteps after shedding three stone on Oldham’s free NHS weight management programme. Michael Hyde took part…

View More Saddleworth man loses three stone with Why Weight?

THE SUN smiled down on an extravaganza of music and entertainment as locals saw out the summer at the Party in the Park. Hosted by…

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TAKE PART in one of the coolest events around as the Ski and Snowboard Snow North comes to Manchester for the first time on October…

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FIVE BUDDING actresses will take to the stage for a new play looking at the plight of young pregnant girls in the 1960s. The enthusiastic amateur actresses…

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ALL WHO live or pass through Saddleworth appreciate the natural beauty and wild grandeur of the countryside.  Yet there is a hint of the hard…

View More The good, the bad and the ghostly

Cornet player and brass tutor Mark Rodgers gives us an insight into the band world with his column, Brassed Off. AUTUMN IS well under way now and…

View More Brassed Off: Bands look forward to Christmas

Karen Thompson, a multi-award winning Weight Watchers Leader, brings you tips and a healthy recipe to get your diet underway this autumn WITH THE change in…

View More Re-set your Autumn food repertoire

The Face and Body shop in Grotton answers your health and beauty questions Send in your health and body questions for their experts to answer,…

View More The Face and Body Shop: make up for teenagers

Uppermill Pharmacist IAN STRACHAN examines: hair loss AS A 70s teenager I recall how it was fashionable for boys to shave their hair, emulating American cop “Kojac”. Kojac was…

View More Health matters: October

NO CHALLENGE proved too big during a busy month for a top Saddleworth construction and property development company as they tackled both work and leisure projects. ‘Team Oldfield’ from…

View More Oldfield battle and build for the community