A YOUNG woman who threatened to jump from a footbridge in Kearsley has been taken to hospital.
Police were called to the bridge over the A666 – linking Farnworth and Kearsley — at about 6.45pm tonight.
A friend of the woman and police officers managed to coax her away from the edge within 10 minutes.
She was then taken to hospital.
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