A DOCUMENTARY which reconstructs the murderous acts of Britain's worst serial killer, Harold Shipman, has been filmed in Bolton.

A production company based in Manchester used Bolton's former police station in Castle Street, The Haulgh as the setting for scenes in the documentary.

Researchers for the hour-long documentary scoured the North of England for a police station with old cells and decided, after considering Huddersfield and Hull, to use Bolton's.

The programme will feature interviews with relatives of two of Shipman's victims, and the makers have also talked to colleagues of GP Linda Reynolds who risked her career to blow the whistle on the serial killer.

Five days of reconstructions have been filmed and they include the moment Shipman - jailed for life in January, 2000, for murdering 15 patients while working as a GP in Hyde - handed himself into police.

The part of Shipman is being played by Alan Thompson.

The documentary is one of six being put together by production company Title Role and will be screened in the autumn on the Crime Investigation Network on Sky 531 or Virgin 237.

Shipman hanged himself in his prison cell in January 2004. After his trial, an inquest decided that there was enough evidence to suggest that Shipman had killed a total of 215 people. His youngest victim was Peter Lewis, aged 41.

A memorial garden to Shipman's victims opened in Hyde Park, Hyde, in 2005.