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Carter Walsh died after the accident inside his home in Wigan, Greater Manchester [BBC] A two-year-old boy died after a television and marble fireplace toppled over and struck him on the head, an ...
His family said Mr Borthwick, from Wigan, "was a light that shone brightly" [Family handout] An engineering company has been fined £80,000 after a man was crushed by machinery at work and killed.
At the time of the accident, No. 7 shaft was the upcast and No. 8 the downcast. The ventilation furnace set fire to coal at the upcast shaft and spread to the down brow. Water pipes were lowered into the downcast shaft. The fire caused an explosion of gas. Nine men died. [52] 9 16 November 1869 Low Hall Colliery Platt Bridge near Wigan
A six-month-old baby has died following a crash in a multi-storey car park in Tenby, police said. Sophia Kelemen, from Leigh, Greater Manchester, was taken to hospital following the collision in ...
The worst accident was the Quintinshill rail disaster in Scotland in 1915 with 226 dead and 246 injured. [a] The second worst, and the worst in England's peacetime history, was the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, which killed 112 people and injured 340. [1]
The Maypole Colliery disaster was a mining accident on 18 August 1908, when an underground explosion occurred at the Maypole Colliery, in Abram, near Wigan, then in the historic county of Lancashire, in North West England. The final death toll was 75.
The main area for the paper's distribution is around the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan. It is published on Fridays. It was founded in the 1950s as a subdivision of the Lancashire Evening Post. [2] The website which the Wigan Post shares with its sister papers is Wigan Today. It also has an app for IOS and Android devices.
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