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The death toll spanning Cumbria, Manchester and St Helens, Merseyside, has reached five teenagers who all lost their lives playing in waterways in the last month.
Heartfelt tributes have been shared on social media after Abbie Walton, 15, drowned in the River Etherow just hours after spending the afternoon enjoying a village barbecue in Broadbottn, Greater Manchester on Wednesday
Greater Manchester Police said the teenager was found after a search near Hodge Lane, Broadbottom, after the village's annual duck race and barbecue, with a medical team unable to save her.
A gas engineer who attacked and kidnapped a rough sleeper - by ordering him into the back of a Transit van - has avoided jail.
As the UK prepares for record-breaking temperatures later this week, firefighters in Greater Manchester are urging...