More from Oldham Reporter

• ‘If Bournemouth can be Premier League, so can Oldham’

  Hopes are high Oldham is on the brink of ‘getting on the sporting map’ — with sights set on the town’s return to the Premier League.

• Nearly 900 charges and fees are going up in Oldham – how it will hit people in the town

  Almost 900 service charges and fees are due to go up in Oldham council, with one key exception.

• Oldham leading the race for workplace wellness

  Greater Manchester Wellbeing Series has teamed up with social enterprise Upturn and is encouraging other organisations and businesses to get involved to help solve Britain’s soaring sick day crisis – starting with Oldham.

• Latics v Cambridge United preview: time running out for promotion push

  One valuable lesson I learned from James Reade, professor of economics at Reading University, Latics academic board member, Boundary Bulletin contributor and massive Latics fan, was to tell fortunes working on the basis of points per game.