Poisoning scare

Date published: 07 February 2012

A couple and a baby boy were taken to the Royal Oldham Hospital on Monday after a possible carbon-monoxide incident.

Fire-fighters, police, paramedics and National Grid gas engineers were called to a terrace house in St James Street, Crompton, at 1am.

The three were treated by fire service trauma technicians and paramedics before they were taken to hospital for a check up. The cause of their symptoms is under investigation.