→ March 10, 2010
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Police are investigating the tragic death of a 13-year-old girl – Lowton High School pupil Poppy Bracey was taken to hospital after being found at home in Broadwell Drive, on Monday evening last week. Doctors fought to save her life but were unable to revive her. An investigation into her death is now under way [...]
→ February 16, 2010
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Firefighters are calling for information to help them stop an arsonist. A crew was called to a fire at the junction of Plank Lane and Crow Wood Road in Lowton at 1.30am on Saturday. They found a wheelie bin had been set on fire and pushed against a building. It is the latest in a [...]
→ January 4, 2010
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A mum’s 17-year compensation battle for her severely disabled son is set to make legal history. Jackie Fletcher has become the first person in the UK to be granted a form of legal aid to help take a claim to a Vaccine Damage Payment Unit tribunal. But while the successful application for “exceptional funding” sets [...]
→ November 24, 2009
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A teenager stabbed to death at the weekend has been named as a Wigan schoolboy. Fifteen-year-old John Marsh suffered severe stab wounds after a late-night incident on Saturday. Despite the best efforts of police officers, paramedics and hospital specialists, John, a pupil at Golborne High School, died in hospital shortly afterwards. Police have confirmed they [...]
