And let us be honest - tonight too many parents, after they put their children to bed, will speak of their worries about losing their jobs or the need to sell the house too many will share stones of friends or neighbours already packing up their homes, and too many will talk of a local store or business that has already gone to the wall.

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Neighbours tried to rescue the children from the burning house but were beaten back by the smoke and flames.

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Neighbours said police were called to the three-bedroom town house early on Tuesday.

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Shabir Hussain helped his neighbours to safety in the early hours of Friday, when the blaze broke out in the kitchen of the house in Brewerton Road, Oldham.

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