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02.04.2023 - 06:49 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mum pushes her baby girl through Farnworth town centre. “I have to keep walking otherwise she’ll wake up,” she says as she gently rocks the pram from side to side.
The shopping precinct is busy but the tot doesn’t stir. Sleeping soundly beneath the safety of her blanket, she’s happy and healthy.
But her hometown has an unsettling secret. Babies born in the Moses Gate area of Farnworth are expected to live to just 75-years-old on average – meaning it has one of the lowest life expectancy rates in the country.
“We’re in 2023,” the mum tells the Manchester Evening News. “You don’t expect that, do you? I know it’s not an affluent area by any means but that’s madness.”
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The shocking data, released by campaigners Health Equals, found that babies born in the Bolton postcode have the lowest life expectancy in Greater Manchester, alongside Oldham town centre.
The research also found that northern and Scottish cities have far lower life expectancy rates than affluent parts of the south.
“I think it’s going to be a mix of things, surely,” the 31-year-old mum, who did not wish to give her name, added. “It’s not an area with a lot of money. There are green spaces if you can find them – but there is a lot of traffic. I live in a terraced house and it has damp but they’re old houses.”
When the M.E.N visited Moses Gate, the heavy traffic was noticeable. “I’m a bit shocked to be fair,” Nick Baynham says as he walks his dog through the suburb. The 25-year-old has a one-year-old son at home.
“I expected people to live longer than that, to about 90 or something. That’s bad. But it’s people not having the best path in life, especially around
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