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Helena Vesty

Health and Social Care Correspondent at Manchester Evening News

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  • 4 days ago | msn.com | Helena Vesty

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 4 days ago | manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Helena Vesty

    Five people were taken to hospitalThe family living inside a home that burned down in a terrifying blaze have not been injured, emergency services have confirmed. A fire ravaged a home in Bury on Sunday evening, June 22, with five people being rushed to hospital at around 5pm. The roof of one home on Sandgate Road was left scorched and exposed after the blaze.

  • 4 days ago | liverpoolecho.co.uk | Helena Vesty

    Police have issued a warning to anyone who went to the funfairPolice have issued a warning after four people were 'electrocuted' on a funfair ride. Police, paramedics and fire crews were called to a funfair on the Meadowbank Playing Fields, on Formby Avenue, in Wigan shortly before 3pm on Sunday, June 22, during the Atherton Carnival. It followed reports of what the fire service described as a "suspected electrocution" related to one of the rides at the busy funfair.

  • 4 days ago | manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Helena Vesty

    Slawomir Klimek has been jailed after raping two women in just 14 daysA man has been jailed for 22 years after raping two women in Lancashire, as police have told about how one victim even 'playing dead' but could not stop the disgusting attack. Slawomir Klimek raped two women in Blackburn, just weeks apart. The horrific details of the crimes have now been revealed, after Klimek was jailed last week. On November 29, 2024, Klimek approached a woman in her 30s on Throstle Street in Blackburn.

  • 4 days ago | manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Helena Vesty

    Eyewitnesses say they heard loud voices shouting 'police' and banging noises just after 5.30amA man has been arrested after police stormed a house in a dawn raid. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) executed a warrant on Exeter Road this morning, June 23, in Brinnington. A man was arrested on suspicion of class A drug supply, the force has said. Join the Manchester Evening News WhatsApp group HEREEyewitnesses say they heard loud voices shouting 'police' and banging noises just after 5.30am.

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Helena Vesty
Helena Vesty @HelenaVesty
24 Apr 25

RT @ukpapers: 🇬🇧 Hundreds Of Children 'Hit By Breathing Problems' ▫“We were given inhalers, but sometimes the inhalers weren’t enough" ▫@H…

Helena Vesty
Helena Vesty @HelenaVesty
15 Mar 25

There are more smoke and scorch signs at the rear of the property @MENnewsdesk https://t.co/ps35hz7pgM

Helena Vesty
Helena Vesty @HelenaVesty
15 Mar 25

Neighbours say firefighters were working at both the front and back of the house as they fought the blaze @MENnewsdesk