Heartbroken locals have described their desperate efforts to save "the best neighbour ever" from a devastating 4am house fire.
Andy Pickwell, a care worker in his 50s, died as a result of the tragic blaze in Wigan in the early hours of yesterday (July 13).
Neighbours have told how they tried to enter his home, but were forced back by plumes of thick black smoke, the Manchester Evening News reports.
