Urgent message to Brits enjoying the sun from quick-thinking Salford hero

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Sign up to the MySalford newsletter to keep up with what's happening in and around the city A ‘quick-thinking’ hero, who pulled a teenage boy from a stretch of the River Irwell in Salford, has been thanked by emergency services - and urged people to learn to swim.

Conor McCorkindale was walking by the River Irwell, near Adelphi Street and Salford Meadow, at 4pm on Thursday (July 22) afternoon.

Sharing his account of what happened on social media, Conor said his girlfriend joked that he would have to ‘jump in and save them’. READ MORE: 'How no one got injured is beyond me': Metrolink passengers forced to walk along tracks in torrential rain after fallen tree blocks line He added: “Little did we expect that was actually what was going to