‘They won’t win’: Oldham council leader speaks out on arson attack

Arooj Shah, town's first female Muslim leader, says she forced herself to go to council meeting the day after the attack

The leader of Oldham council has spoken out about the firebomb attack on her car, and her determination that whoever was behind it would not stop her doing her job.

Arooj Shah, who became the town's first female Muslim leader in May, said her mother initially thought she was in the car when it was firebombed on 13 July in what the police described as a reckless, abhorrent act".