{"id":86869,"date":"2026-03-26T08:43:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86869"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:44:14","slug":"gang-of-feral-youths-ramp-up-reign-of-terror-on-town-balaclava-clad-thugs-threaten-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/gang-of-feral-youths-ramp-up-reign-of-terror-on-town-balaclava-clad-thugs-threaten-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang of &#8216;feral&#8217; youths ramp up reign of terror on town: Balaclava-clad thugs threaten workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ZpMzQ.img?w=534&amp;h=952&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Vast mobs of teenagers have been plaguing the once-peaceful streets of Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester, for months\u00a0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ashton-in-Makerfield, a quaint market town on the outskirts of Greater Manchester, is not dissimilar from any other in the once-thriving mining hub. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/gang-of-feral-youths-ramp-up-reign-of-terror-on-town-balaclava-clad-thugs-threaten-workers\/ar-AA1ZpJCg?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69c4e720672f4242b94cb09619514b3f&amp;cvpid=b74f74b7452e4c77b132b4967174daf1&amp;ei=20\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; Ashton-in-Makerfield, a quaint market town on the outskirts of Greater Manchester, is not dissimilar from any other in the once-thriving mining&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/feral-youth.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86872,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86869\/revisions\/86872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}