THE POLICE underwater search team and firefighters helped police retrieve a decomposed body from a Widnes bungalow on Monday evening.
An elderly man, who lived alone, is understood to have died during the heatwave at his dilapidated home in Stapleton Way, Halebank.
A spokesman for Widnes fire brigade said: "The man had been dead for quite some time."
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