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  • Teenager bailed after death crash

    A 19-YEAR-OLD youth has been bailed following a crash which left one teenager dead and another seriously injured. Daniel McHugh, aged 15, of Okell Grove, Leigh, was killed when the Vauxhall Corsa he was travelling in hit a tree in Holden Road, Leigh,

  • Pensioner burgled FOUR times in a month

    AN elderly woman in Leigh was burgled FOUR times over Christmas, a court was told. Raiders first struck on Christmas Eve while the 70-year-old was away. By early January, burglars had plundered her home in West Leigh Road on three more occasions, Liverpool

  • Flytipping 'is a new menace'

    FLYTIPPERS have blocked the driveway to a woman's home by turning it into a makeshift rubbish dump after new rules were introduced by Wigan Council over waste disposal. Alan Lee says tradesmen and people dumping household waste have made the track to

  • Police crackdown on yobs

    POLICE in Whitefield and Unsworth have vowed to crack down on anti-social behaviour and petty crime in a bid to reassure residents that they are living in a safe community. They will spend more time targeting low-level crimes such as vandalism and graffiti

  • Attack youth's prison threat

    A YOUTH who attacked a college security could face prison following an appearance before Bury magistrates. Richard Thomas Mawdsley, aged 19, of Beech Grove Close, Bury, admitted assaulting Alan Harry Whitehead, causing actual bodily harm. The defendant