Card chain Clintons, in another potential blow to the high street, is considering plans to shut 38 shops in a bid to avoid insolvency, according to reports today.
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A school went into lockdown this morning after a boy with a gun was spotted nearby. The drama unfolded just before 8.30am today in Failsworth.
Police are at the scene and investigations are continuing. In a statement Greater Manchester Police said: "Officers were called at around 8:25am today to reports a male was seen with a weapon on Richmond Road, Failsworth, Oldham.
"Co-op Academy has implemented voluntary security measures - there isn't believed to be any threat and it isn't linked to threats made to several schools in Greater Manchester last week. There are extra patrols in the area and officers are working with the school while the investigation is ongoing."
"A 12-year-old boy has been arrested and an imitation firearm recovered in Oldham this morning. The boy remains in custody after being arrested under the Firearms Act."
Superintendent Richard Warden, of GMP's Oldham district, said: "Greater Manchester Police will always take reports of this nature seriously and take the appropriate action. This incident today was attended by a number of GMP resources but the response was absolutely appropriate given the report that came into police."
The parent of one child at the school said: "My daughter messaged me at about 9.45am to say the school was in lockdown. I tried later to call her and couldn't get through."
A number of schools across Manchester were put into lockdown on July 13 after what police called 'malicious communications' were sent to them. The M.E.N. saw an email understood to be from a primary school in Wythenshawe sent to parents of pupils. It said the school received 'a threat in an email this morning', and went on to say other schools in the Manchester area did as well.
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Card chain Clintons, in another potential blow to the high street, is considering plans to shut 38 shops in a bid to avoid insolvency, according to reports today.
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