'Large quantity of family gold' stolen from burglary in Bolton

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Manchester Evening News : "I had to contact the coroners' office to get them to arrange for his things to be sent. "They finally sent his belongings and many items were missing.

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Wigan, has now been charged with the commercial burglary of the store, police have revealed.

A jury has heard a harrowing first-hand account of onlookers trying to help a seven-year-old girl after she was stabbed in a Bolton park.Emily Jones died after she was fatally attacked by Eltiona Skana, 30, who grabbed her and slashed her neck with a craft knife while the child was riding her scooter towards her mother, a trial at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court has been told.Skana, who has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, has denied murdering the youngster in Queen's Park on

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Bolton town centre, at 9.45am on Saturday (November 28).

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Manchester Evening News has established that the incident took place at 20-22 Mary Street. A man who runs a clothing label from one of the units in the building posted a series of videos and pictures as dozens of police officers turned up.At first he appears untroubled by the presence of police and seems annoyed at the crowd of people."D***heads causing me drama are you stupid," the man says to the camera.As he walks through the crowd, the man says "It's all mad.

a similar move by Focus Trust, which runs seven primaries in Greater Manchester, Stockport council has given permission for schools to close two days earlier than planned.