WINE EXPERT Bob Marshall reveals what you should be looking for in the perfect rosé… PINK WINES, rosé wines, blush wines – call them what…
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Healthy and Beauty: With The Face and Body Shop
The Face and Body Shop in Grotton answers your health and beauty questions. (Send in your health and beauty questions for The Face and Body…
View More Healthy and Beauty: With The Face and Body ShopHealth matters: Suntan and suncreens
Uppermill pharmacist Ian Strachan examines: Suntans and sunscreens SUNBURN IS caused by exposure to sun’s rays – namely Ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Too much sun causes…
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Healthy and Beauty: Teeth whitening
EVERYONE STARTS off with beautiful white teeth but strongly coloured foods and drinks like coffee, tea and Cola can discolour the surface of your teeth.…
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Cornet player Mark Rodgers, tutor and conductor of the Delph Youth Band and Training Bands, gives us an insight into the band world with his…
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All thanks to a foot
HAYLEY WILD, an instructor at Saddleworth and District Pony Club, looks back at the history of the horse… Recently, Oldham Gallery hosted a talk on…
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History: No smoke
IT WAS Fred Dibnah who as a steeplejack in his series on television, with his enthusiasm for mill chimneys, made people look above eye level…
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Baden Powell visits
HISTORY – BY PETER FOX IN NOVEMBER 1908 Saddleworthians were treated to a visit by a famous person – his full title at the time…
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Life on Pig Row: April
Andrew Oldham writes about gardening at Pig Row. Pig Row is split into three gardens over a quarter of an acre in Scouthead. Visit at…
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Dig For Victory
AS THE Independent’s gardening columnist Andrew Oldham embarks as head gardener upon a twelve-month challenge The Wartime Garden, he gives a glimpse of what is…
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Health matters: Uppermill pharmacist IAN STRACHEN examines Hay fever
Hay fever afflicts around one in five of the population. The condition is more common in children particularly teenagers but symptoms can develop from any…
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Take it easy is Marilyn’s advice.
A DENSHAW yoga teacher is encouraging all generations to take up the discipline to help ease the stress of daily life. Marilyn Heginbotham, 65, said…
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The Face and Body shop in Grotton answers your health and beauty questions.
Q. I have booked the holiday of a lifetime for this summer. I am desparate to look my best round the pool, but I am…
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Reflexology
Grasscroft’s LIZ NORBURY from the health and beauty department of Oldham College explains about Reflexology Q: What is Reflexology? A relaxing treatment working on both…
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Getting back to normal
Cornet player Mark Rogers, tutor and conductor of the Delph Youth and Training Bands, gives us an insight into the band world with his column,…
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Seconds save lives
HAYLEY WILD, an instructor at Saddleworth and District Pony Club, urges harmony between drivers and riders … As horse riders in Saddleworth, we are fortunate…
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STAN’S Strange but true: April
Stan Bowes from DIggle has uncovered some more interesting and entertaining strange but true facts for us – you just couldn’t make them up TONY…
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Forlorn … but not forgotten
Indie action By Ken Bennett APPEALS TO the Independent by worried residents living in isolated Saddleworth hamlets have prompted council action. The Holroyds, a long-established farming…
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The pies have it
ARE YOU ready to celebrate British Pie Week which runs from now until March 10? As any discerning Saddleworth diner will confirm, we are really…
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Farm ‘classroom’ will be a real hoot for children
A VISIONARY Saddleworth couple are planning to launch an exciting children’s education centre to give them a real flavour of life down on the farm. John…
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Hitch up to the pony club
HAYLEY WILD, an instructor at Saddleworth and District Pony Club, tells us about the club’s origins and their success: The bond between horse and rider…
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Win a prize at burger heaven
TO CELEBRATE the mouth-watering launch of The Farrars Arms Burger Menu we have got a juicy prize to be won. With the burger fast becoming the nation’s…
View More Win a prize at burger heavenHealth Matters: Colds – Myths and Truths
Uppermill pharmacist IAN STRACHAN examines Colds – Myths and Truths My mother would say ‘Dry that hair or you’ll catch a cold’. Well that hair is a…
View More Health Matters: Colds – Myths and TruthsBrassed Off : Why Blackpool rocks
THE MONTH of March heralds the Spring – daffodils, lambs in the fields and Mother Nature’s awakening. All very poetic I know, but what does…
View More Brassed Off : Why Blackpool rocksPlanning approvals: March
SADDLEWORTH PARISH Council’s Planning Committee recommended approval for a series of planning applications at their February meeting. They included: Saddleworth Medical Practice, Delph Clinic, Gartside Street,…
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All round good guys
KIND-HEARTED WORKERS at a top Saddleworth building and construction company are juggling their busy schedules with rigorous training for a charity triathlon. Three staff members…
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Planning a DIY project? Call Holmebuild
Where do you go for your DIY and building supplies? Do you travel out of Saddleworth to one of the large DIY outlets? If so…
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SPRING IS upon us and we all will see evidence of this now in the fattening buds in the hedgerows and the weeds in our…
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Ammon the artist
THERE ARE many Saddleworth people who are aware of who Ammon Wrigley was and what he did and having died over 67 years ago I’m…
View More Ammon the artistStan’s strange but true: March
STAN BOWES, from Diggle, has uncovered some more interesting and entertaining, strange but true facts for us – you just couldn’t make them up. POLICE…
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History: Small beginnings
SADDLEWORTH CAN lay claim to the origins of ‘Platt’s of Oldham’, which claimed to be the largest establishment in the world producing textile machinery and…
View More History: Small beginningsStan’s strange but true: February
STAN BOWES, from Diggle, has uncovered some more interesting and entertaining, strange but true facts for us – you just couldn’t make them up. BARCELONA’S…
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Apprentices are the way forward
A TOP Saddleworth building and construction company is looking forward to a development of its own as it welcomes new apprentices to its team. Oldfield…
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THE FOOTBALL season is half way through and as I write my column, we have the prospect of ‘minnows’ Bradford City playing at Wembley in…
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