Woman taken to hospital after being rescued from Stalybridge canal
Emergency services spent an hour at the scene while the rescue operation took place
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A woman has been taken to hospital after being rescued from a canal in Tameside.
Emergency services were called out to Stalybridge town centre on Monday night (April 27) following reports of a female in the Huddersfield Narrow Canal at Armentieres Square, near Trinity Street.
Emergency services failed to work together on night of Manchester Arena bombing, police chief tells public inquiry
Robin Smith, British Transport Police s gold commander, accepted at the public inquiry into the atrocity that he didn t contact other commanders - and called for an overhaul in the ways senior officers communicate with each other at major incidents
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Police at the scene on the night (Image: PA)
The emergency services failed to work together and adhere to established principals in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing, the senior British Transport Police commander on the night has said.
And Robin Smith, then Assistant Chief Constable and the force s gold commander for its response, called for an overhaul in the ways 999 commanders and blue light services communicate with each other during major incidents.
Emergency services spend two hours rescuing drunk man from the edge of Oldham quarry
The man was taken to hospital with a head and serious leg injuries
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The Oldham Mountain Rescue Team were called to a quarry in Austerlands to rescue a drunk man (Image: Oldham Mountain Rescue Team)
Emergency services spent an hour rescuing a drunken man from the edge of a quarry in Oldham on Saturday night (April 24).
Just before 11pm, crews were called to the quarry, off Thorpe Lane, in Austerlands to help an intoxicated man.
North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) called the Oldham Mountain Rescue Team (OMRT) to the scene, to help with getting the man, who was unconscious and perched dangerously on the edge of the quarry, down.
Police chief got taxi from Blackpool to Manchester Arena after bombing, inquiry hears
The Manchester Arena bombing inquiry continues
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British Transport Police (Image: Manchester Evening News)
A police chief got a taxi from his home in Blackpool to Manchester Arena to assume a key role on the night of the bombing - and his Blackberry device ran out of power on the way, the public inquiry into the terror attack heard.
Chief Superintendent Allan Gregory, who was British Transport Police s silver tactical commander, said he tried to contact a superintendent who lived 25 minutes away to send him to the scene as a bronze ground commander, but couldn t make the call connect and got his answerphone.