Sign up for the free MyBolton newsletter to get the top stories direct to your inbox Three years after a series of devastating blazes on Smithills Estate, Bolton, people are once again being warned not to light fires on moorland.
The Woodland Trust is making the plea after nine of its sites have been blighted by fire in 2021 alone. Now, with Greater Manchester enjoying a prolonged hot and dry stretch of weather, and the summer holidays beginning, the charity is urging people not to light any fires on its land. READ MORE: Woman cut from car after horror smash with two people taken to hospital In the summer of 2018, a toxic mix of a fire, coupled with droughts, swept through the moorland at Smithills near Bolton, creating a “moonscape
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