92 year old woman burgled in Greenfield

Police are warning residents to be wary about bogus workmen after a 92-year-old woman was burgled. It happened between 4.50pm and 5.30pm, on 4 April 2013 when the victim answered the door to two men at her house on Shaw Street, Greenfield. They claimed they needed to...

Do your bit for elderly neighbours this winter

In the final week before Christmas staff from the Local Authority’s Social Care team are now starting work to contact around 4,000 older and vulnerable residents in a huge co-ordinated ‘ring-round’. The callers are checking that people’s heating is working, for...

Dont get left out in the cold this winter

West Yorkshire Police are encouraging local people to get prepared for winter. The past two winters have seen severe weather in some parts of the region, with winter 2009/10 the coldest recorded nationally since 1978/79. In West Yorkshire, this caused significant snow...

Pensioners targeted by burglars

Police are urging residents not to let strangers into their homes after pensioners were targeted in the Oldham area. At about 6.20pm on Tuesday 11 October 2011, a man called at a house on Huddersfield Road, Diggle. He told the 65-year-old woman who lives there that he...

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