VIDEO: Police divers call off Wigan Pier search
A well-meaning member of the public contacted officers on Thursday lunchtime after personal items were seen floating on the waterway's surface outside The Orwell, on Wallgate.
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Hide AdDivers were brought in and recovered the items which identified a man and they continued to search through the murky canal in case an accident had befallen him.
Four hours were spent there on Thursday before the hunt had to be called off as light faded.
They returned on Friday morning and two more hours of fruitless searching were carried out, before they were notified that the man in question had been sighted in Lancashire and the team withdrew.