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Travellers can take popular rail journeys across the north for just £1 this autumn, as Northern's flash sale enters its final hours.

Bosses at a recycling plant want to operate 24-hours a day after installing quieter machinery. J Dickinson and Sons Limited run a waste transfer station and materials recycling facility at Station Road in Blackrod.

Plans for a new network of ‘air-fibre’ poles that carry high speed broadband across Oldham have been unveiled. IX Wireless has applied to the council for 29 poles to be installed, each 15 metres in height, in various locations across the borough.

Liz Truss has criticised Rishi Sunak’s record on taxation and the former chancellor claimed he was the only one who could beat Labour as the leadership contest enters its final stage.

A 38-year-old man found dead in a hotel room had been battling heroin addiction for at least 15 years, an inquest heard.

A man who went missing after swimming in the River Mersey has been named by police following his disappearance earlier this week.

Police stopped a vehicle after noticing it was ‘visibly wobbling’ while travelling with all but one nut missing from one of its wheels.

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Bury's MPs have called for greater protection for memorials to Sir Robert Peel.It comes after a number of statues of the former Prime Minister appeared on a list of historical monuments campaigners had hoped to have removed.The 'Topple the Racists' interactive map included statues of Peel in Bury, Manchester, Preston, Leeds and Glasgow, along with more than 50 other memorials which protesters had called on authorities to have removed.It was produced days after a statue to former slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol was torn down and dumped in a harbour.There has been some confusion over the arguments for removing Peel's after it was revealed that some of the complaints made about him were actually based on the statements and actions of

crowd-sourced map, produced by supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, displays more than 50 statues of historical figures which are said to 'celebrate slavery and racism'.It has gone live days after a statue to former slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol was torn down and dumped in a harbour.There are five monuments to former Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel listed on the map - in Bury, Manchester, Preston, Leeds and Glasgow.