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Only a Gas Safe registered engineer should work on your boiler

'Lives at risk' warning as homeowners admit they would tamper with gas boilers

The gas company Cadent is upgrading the regions gas network

Gas network to receive major upgrade

Watch manager Gibbons couldn't stress too forecfully the importance of smoke alarms

Pensioner escapes fire-hit home thanks to smoke alarm

The Prescott Lane substation which blew a fuse

Thousands of Wigan homes without power after huge power outage

Firefighters were forced to cause damage to the interior of the home in order to get at a blaze in the wall cavity

Wigan van fire causes major damage to two houses

Gas line replacements by Cadent

Another 12 miles of new gas piping will be installed under Wigan's roads

Engineering work is set to take place in Lowton over the next six weeks

Access to main road to be blocked as major gas engineering works start

This image of the house collapse in Wigan has been widely shared on social media

Emergency services at scene after part of house collapses in Wigan

Former police sniffer dogs Midge and Nelly with their handler Steve Foster. The dogs are being used to sniff out problems with Lancashire's gas network

Sniffer dogs help nose out Lancashire's gas leaks in a brand new job swap

Frank Fenton

Wigan grandad's shock over freak gas explosion

The new motorbikes in action

Rapid response has engineers on two wheels

Cracking down on doorstep fraud gangs preying on vulnerable Wigan people