With the days getting colder and the nights getting longer, many families will be looking forward to bonfire night season to brighten their autumn.
It’s increasingly rare for councils to put on traditional fires, with cash-strapped local authorities across the country reigning in their festivities in the last few years in light of spiralling costs.
And while Oldham has for a long time resisted cutting its beloved Big Bang bonfire in Boundary Edge Park, the council has this year decided to follow suit.
But there’s still plenty of activities taking place across the borough to celebrate November 5. Every year, Bonfire Night commemorates the failed gunpowder plot which sought to blow up the House of Lords and King James I in 1605.
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