SIX young men were trapped in a lift for more than one hour at a complex of luxury apartments.

Firefighters from Bolton North and Bolton Central stations were called to the Cottonworks in Blackburn Road, Sharples, at 2.40am on Saturday. The group had already called the lift engineer, who arrived just before the fire crews, and managed to release them.

A Bolton North spokesman said: “It was uncomfortable for them as they were in the lift for more than an hour.”

No-one needed hospital treatment.