Category: News

STREET SCENE Greenfield is sprucing up the area’s canal towpaths to help revive some of Saddleworth’s most-loved walking places. Volunteers have targeted the worst patches…

View More Canal towpath areas get much-needed clean up

A TALENTED band is taking Saddleworth by storm after a duo formed in a front room blossomed into an ensemble with a passion for live…

View More It’s the new Blues Brothers

A TRANSPENNINE Ale Trail set up to attract more ‘tourist’ customers to the area seems to have got out of hand, claim concerned Saddleworth parish…

View More Ale to the trail

A POLICE crackdown on under-age drinkers who tried to smuggle alcohol into villages ahead of Whit Friday’s Saddleworth Brass Band Contests was hailed a success. …

View More Whitsun purge on young drinkers

COULD THIS be the look of the new Saddleworth school of the future? A local councillor, Saddleworth School’s head and chair of the schools’ governors…

View More Saddleworth’s future school?

HUNT DOWN heroes and villains across Saddleworth’s countryside during this year’s Delph Donkey Scarecrow Trail. From May 24 to June 9, scarecrows will be scattered…

View More All aboard from Donkey Scarecrow Trail

THE INTRIGUE of watching strangers has been explored in a unique exhibition by a Diggle artist. ‘Passers By’ features paintings by Diana Terry of observed…

View More Diana captures life in pictures

A CHARITY jog and cycle in memory of PCs Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone will see a team of Greater Manchester Police officers tackle more…

View More Cops set for 900 mile charity bike ride

READY… STEADY … THROW will be the order of the day when a charity fundraising battle with custard pies is launched this month. Tracey Barlow,…

View More One in the eye!

A 400-STRONG community association has written to a medical centre in support of local chemists after claims doctors are promoting their own pharmacy to patients.…

View More ‘Our Pharmacy’ concerns