Watch more of our videos on Shots!
and live on Freeview channel 276

But just a couple of hours after Elton John sang Candle in the Wind for the last time at Glastonbury, it was a case of a candle in the window sparking needless worries.

A spokesman for the Hindley crew, which attended the Leigh address along with colleagues from Leigh and Atherton at 1.30am on Monday June 26, said: “Half the street was out, with people wrapped in duvets and fearing that a neighbour’s house was going up in flames.

These are the Wigan schools worst affected by teacher absences last year as unio...

Crews from three different stations attended the false alarm

"But on closer inspection it just turned out to be the flickering of a candle behind the frosted glass of the bathroom window and there was no emergency at all.

"The calls were well-intentioned though, so no-one was complaining.”

There was no-one in the house in question at the time.

Hours after Elton's last concert, a 'candle in the window' causes major Wigan 999 false alarm