A man has been hailed for his bravery after jumping into the Bridgewater Canal to save an elderly woman who appeared to be drowning. Czeslaw Sekrecki, 62, jumped into the "freezing cold" water without a second thought after noticing the woman, who was in her 80s, "topple" into the stretch of the canal in Eccles.
His daughter, Edyta Sliwinska said her dad, who is Polish and doesn't speak much English, was able to rescue the woman and pull to her to the shore as emergency services arrived.
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