Six people have been injured in England following an explosion at a terraced house in Greater Manchester during the early hours of Tuesday morning.

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A 100-year-old woman has been told her breast cancer has not returned a year on after she underwent surgery.

Six people have been injured, including one critically, following a gas explosion at a block of flats in Greater Manchester, police said today.