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• 'Forgotten' WWI casualties finally honoured with war graves at cemeteries across Oldham

  More than a century on these casualties have finally been honoured with Commonwealth War Grave headstones.

• Co-op Congress 2026: Co-operatives unite in Birmingham to turn shared values into action

  Another hugely successful Co-op Congress concluded recently at The Eastside Rooms in Birmingham, bringing together co-operative leaders, innovators, policymakers, campaigners and community organisations from across the UK and beyond for two days of debate, collaboration and action.

• Hundred fight plans for church renovation

  Hundreds of people are fighting against plans to renovate a Grade II listed church in Shaw that has partially collapsed. The chapel was abandoned in 1975 and is now dangerous but could have a new future under plans put forward.

• Council fails to choose leader for third time

  Oldham councillors met for half an hour, agreed one thing, and then decided to go home again. Some elected members were seen after watching England play the Democratic Republic of the Congo after another meeting failed to break a deadlock on who should run the authority.