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Musk attacks Starmer as Badenoch calls for grooming gangs inquiry

Tesla boss Elon Musk issued a series of attacks on Sir Keir Starmer as the Tories called for a national inquiry into grooming gangs

Evening Standard

Badenoch calls for inquiry into ‘rape gang scandal’ as Oldham probe denied

The Conservative Party leader made the call in a post on X and argued that a public inquiry into organised grooming gangs is ‘long overdue’.

Evening Standard

Elon Musk’s calls for Tommy Robinson release anger Labour MPs

Billionaire ally of Donald Trump also accuses Keir Starmer on X of failing to prosecute child rapists in Oldham

The Guardian - UK

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Joy: the story of IVF shows how women’s health and scientific contributions haven’t been taken seriously

Watching the Netflix film Joy has been a hugely emotional experience for me. The film is the story of the scientific endeavour to figure out in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and the first baby to be born this way, Louise Joy Brown on 25 July 1978 at Oldham General Hospital in Manchester.

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Police officer jailed for nine years after sexually touching girl while on duty

Dean Dempster, of Greater Manchester Police, assaulted the child while on duty in Oldham in December last year

Evening Standard

Dinner lady congratulated by Jamie Oliver after 40 years at Oldham school

Alison Hopkinson says school meals are now healthier, but children’s favourite dish at St Mary’s hasn’t changed

The Guardian - UK

Oldham mass grave: 300 bodies of babies and children found

Up until the mid-1980s, many parents of stillborn babies and babies who died shortly after birth were not told what happened to their child's body

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More than 300 bodies including babies and children found in mass grave in Oldham

The discovery was made by a woman who was looking for her twin brothers who died in 1962

The Independent UK

Oldham Coliseum theatre saved from closure

Oldham council pledges £10m to refurbish theatre after campaign led by actor Julie Hesmondhalgh

The Guardian - UK

Key points as local election results show major Tory losses

With almost all council elections declared, Conservatives are on course to lose up to 500 seats

The Guardian - UK

Police hunt for man, 25, after fatal stabbing of woman in Bradford

Police appeal for any sightings of Habibur Masum, from Oldham, after woman with pram was attacked on Saturday

The Guardian - UK

‘Three big flukes’: how Penguin ended up republishing a 1934 Rochdale plasterer’s tale

Bartender who found Caliban Shrieks in a library says chance encounters helped him get Jack Hilton’s story back in print

The Guardian - UK

“Marrying a rock band to an orchestra was seat-of-the-pants stuff." The story of Barclay James Harvest's Once Again

1971's Once Again album. only the band's second album, saw Oldham's prog quartet Barclay James Harvest working with an orchestra to striking effect

Louder

Squatters, bikers and skateboarders in hijabs: Brits’ wild communities exposed

Inspired by the stunning, raw images of the late Tish Murtha, British people have been photographing their own remarkable neighbourhoods

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Alex Batty: Teenager found in France returns to UK to be reunited with grandmother

Police say they are yet to establish whether they will open a criminal investigation into ‘abduction’

The Independent UK

Missing British boy Alex Batty found in France six years after he was ‘abducted’

Alex was 11 when he went ‘missing’ while travelling with family members in Spain

The Guardian - UK

Super League awards: the complete review of the 2023 season

Jack Welsby will be box-office material for years to come, Oldham and Warrington were left crying over spilt milk and a tip for 2024

The Guardian - UK

Holey shoes and abscessed teeth: Oldham school sees impact of cost of living crisis

At Beever primary, staff regularly step in to give children breakfast or provide uniforms

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The Independent UK

Starbucks cheers ‘good progress’ in plan for 100 new UK shops

The chain said it has also “maintained strong, double-digit growth” in the UK in recent months despite pressure on consumer spending.

The Guardian - UK

Luke Brooks inquest: a shocking spotlight on living conditions in modern Britain

Patricia Brooks had blamed mould and poor state of privately rented house in Oldham they lived in for death of her sonMouldy, damp house did not cause man’s death, coroner rules

The Guardian - UK

Mouldy, damp house did not cause man’s death, coroner rules

Postmortem examination had found aspergillus on lungs of Luke Brooks, 27, who died at home in Oldham

The Guardian - UK

Mould found in lungs of man who died in house with chronic damp, inquest hears

Pathologist says Luke Brooks, 27, of Oldham, died from respiratory problems caused by aspergillus pneumonia

The Independent UK

Mould played part in death of young man who died six days after developing cough, inquest hears

Luke Brooks’ family believe the conditions in their rented Oldham house caused his death in 2022

The Guardian - UK

Mother begged Oldham council to move her and late son from damp house, inquest hears

Court had earlier been told the death of Luke Brooks, 27, in 2022 had been provisionally linked to mould exposure in freezing home

The Independent UK

Mother begged for help to leave mould-ridden home before son died, inquest hears

Patricia Brooks says her family was left with no heating for three years

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