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• Shrewsbury Town 1 – 0 Latics: Latics run out of luck and out of puff

  New Meadow is one of the many grounds where Micky Mellon gets a generous round of applause as the opposition manager…where once he was the home favourite, the man who led the club to that promotion back in the day.

• Full candidates list for Oldham 2026 election

  Residents will head to the polls on Thursday, May 7, to vote in new representatives for their areas across Oldham.

• “For goats not drugs” – six sentenced to over 60 years in prison for conspiracy to import drugs totalling over £1m

  Six people including a woman from Oldham have been sentenced for their role in a conspiracy to import class A and class B drugs into the UK.

• Match preview: Shrewsbury Town v Latics

  And so it continues deep into the month of April – the season that was all but done in early February is absolutely not done. Latics’ bid for a second consecutive promotion retains an air of realism rather than blind optimism.