Teenage footballer drowned while swimming in reservoir
Tributes have been paid to Paul Lawson who drowned in a reservoir while swimming with friends on the hottest day of the year.
Tributes have been paid to Paul Lawson who drowned in a reservoir while swimming with friends on the hottest day of the year.
Emotional tributes are being paid to a teenager who drowned while swimming in a reservoir on a scorching hot day.
He's been named locally as Paul Lawson and it's thought his friends desperately tried to save him after he got into difficulties.
They've said he was a 'great guy' and a keen footballer who was 'loved by so many'.
Matt O'Donoghue reports from Greenbooth Reservoir in Rochdale:
Wet and windy for the next 24 hours... or longer!
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Moderate counts for the next few days, rising in any brighter spells