A HILL walker collapsed and died while walking with her friends.

The middle-aged woman, from Manchester, was walking below the pigeon tower at Rivington with two companions on Saturday when she suffered a suspected heart attack.

The Bolton Mountain Rescue team and two ambulance crews went to help her. They tried to resuscitate, her but she was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital in Chorley. Mountain rescue team leader Garry Rhodes said: "We tried to resuscitate her as we carried her to the ambulance, but unfortunately we were unable to save her."

On their way back to Bolton, the rescue team was called to help an eight-year-old girl who had suffered a suspected fractured elbow.

She slipped on ice while walking with her grandfather in the Lower House car park.

The team recalled one of the ambulance crews that had attended the earlier incident and she was taken to hospital.

Yesterday, the rescue team was called out to help a 33-year-old woman who broke an ankle in a fall.

She had slipped while walking at Tockholes with her partner and was taken to a hospital in Blackburn.