A campaign is underway to see a statue of Winston Churchill erected in Oldham by Councillor Howard Sykes who hopes the statue will celebrate his ‘very real connection’ with the town.

Campaigners from the Memorial for Fusilier Lee Rigby petition believe that Greenwhich Council’s refusal to erect a memorial in Drummer Rigby’s name is ‘despicable’.

Plans to install a statue of an iconic female figure in Manchester city centre have been passed as a Didsbury councillor pledged to get on his bike to raise £50,000 to build it.