Failsworth. Two cars and taxi set alight

POLICE are investigating after two cars and a taxi were deliberately set alight in separate attacks in Oldham overnight. 

The first incident occurred shortly after 9pm with crews from Oldham attending Acre Lane, Derker, where a Citroen Saxo was on fire. 

The blaze burned through the handbrake which caused the car to roll into a nearby industrial unit. 

A taxi on Oldham Road, Failsworth, was also targeted in a suspected arson attack shortly after 1am. 

Firefighters from Hollins were called to the fire, which had been started while the driver had returned to the office outside the taxi rank. 

The taxi was badly damaged and police are currently investigating. 

Finally, a Range Rover parked on Stoneswood Road, Delph, was also set alight at 4am. 

No-one was injured in any of the attacks and it is not believed that the incidents are connected.

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ABERYSTWYTH RNLI want to thank two taxi drivers who helped during a rescue that saw a fund-raising day for crews turn into a race to save four young surfers stranded out to sea off Llanrhystud.

Volunteer crew members were collecting money for the lifeboat station as part of the annual RNLI Flag Day collection on Saturday at Great Darkgate Street when they received the call.
With coastguards reporting that the quartet of teenagers were unable to get back to shore, crew members, fully kitted up, made their way to the station to launch.

Two quick-thinking and helpful cabbies - seeing the commotion - gave crew members a free ride to the lifeboat station - cutting vital minutes off the time it took to save the youngsters who had blown over a mile out to sea.

Alerted at just after 2.30pm after a family friend called for help, lifeboat crews raced to the youngsters, who had drifted one mile north after being caught in a rip current.
Cold, tired and unable to get back to shore, the teenagers had sensibly tied themselves together to await rescue.

After being picked up by the lifeboat, the youngsters were taken to Bronglais to be checked over. No injuries were reported.An Aberystwyth RNLI spokesman said:

“The lifeboat crew were collecting as part of the Lifeboat Flag Day and Sea 2 Shore event, when the pagers went off.

“Whilst running from Bank Square to the Lifeboat station, already wearing their dry suits and equipment, they were assisted by two taxi drivers, who drove the crew to the boathouse, greatly speeding up the time it took to rescue the four boys, and no doubt helping to save their lives.