As Oldham's political crisis deepens, police arrest online activist Raja Miah

'This is a fight for us against those who would groom, gang rape and traffic our children'

Good morning members — today’s newsletter has an update from Oldham. It concerns Raja Miah, the online activist whose claims about council corruption and grooming gangs have thrown the borough’s politics into chaos in the past year, and who was arrested by police on Friday morning.

Before that, we have our mini-briefing and a great new graph from Jacklin that shows how this wave of coronavirus compares to previous ones in Greater Manchester.