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More than 300 bodies found in Oldham mass grave - most belonging to babies and children

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146 of the bodies were stillborn babies and 128 babies and young children.

The grave was found by a woman looking for her brothers in Royton Cemetery , Oldham .

One baby was stillborn and the other died within five hours in 1962 .

Until the mid-1980s , stillborn babes were often taken from families with no consultation with parents.

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informal

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English

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49

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