Resident force to flee property after wheelie bin fire spreads to block of flats
'There was about six or seven wheelie bins there, the ones that you see now have just been put there for the cordon.'
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Joe is a digital reporter who has been working as a journalist for four years. For the first three years of his career, Joe worked at a paper in Cheshire but being from Stockport, he was keen to move to a busier patch in Greater Manchester. In October, he joined The Oldham Times as a digital reporter and covers everything from human interest stories to court reporting. Think you have a story? Email joe.yates@newsquest.co.uk and follow him on X, formerly Twitter, @JMYjourno
Joe is a digital reporter who has been working as a journalist for four years. For the first three years of his career, Joe worked at a paper in Cheshire but being from Stockport, he was keen to move to a busier patch in Greater Manchester. In October, he joined The Oldham Times as a digital reporter and covers everything from human interest stories to court reporting. Think you have a story? Email joe.yates@newsquest.co.uk and follow him on X, formerly Twitter, @JMYjourno
'There was about six or seven wheelie bins there, the ones that you see now have just been put there for the cordon.'
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