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Two women were taken to hospital after a dog attack today. A police helicopter was scrambled as part of the response to the incident at Howe Bridge, Atherton, Leigh, by armed officers.

Councillors have angrily turned down a telecom firm’s bid to put a 50-foot ‘metal obscenity’ of a mast on land near a primary school in the Boothstown area of Salford. Three UK Ltd’s application also included a wrapround cabinet at the base of the 5G mast, three antennas, and three equipment cabinets and other ‘ancillary equipment’ on the land at Leigh Road, close to its junction with Boothshall Way and a stone’s throw from St Andrew’s CE Primary School.

A brewery has admitted health and safety failures after the death of a pub customer in Bolton.

Residents were woken up in the early hours of the morning after a car smashed into a row of homes in Leigh.

A Tesco delivery van tipped over in the middle of a road in Westhoughton, Bolton on Monday evening. Residents living nearby reported hearing a 'huge bang' before looking out of their windows and seeing the branded supermarket vehicle overturned in the road.

A dad-of-four sank 30 pints of lager a day whilst cultivating a cannabis farm at his family home in Wigan.

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Atherton, at about 8.05am today.

Four months of nightmare traffic could be the price that commuters in Westhoughton have to pay, if plans to save a railway bridge are given the green light.