Breaking Firefighters tackling blaze at apartment block discover cannabis farm
Officers stumbled across a cannabis farm while attending to a fire at an apartment block.
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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
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