Parents of girl, 11, shot dead in France, are from Oldham
The parents of an 11-year-old girl British girl shot dead while playing on her garden swing in France are from Oldham. Solaine Thornton and her sister Celeste, eight, were in the garden during a barbecue at their home in the village of Saint-Herbot, near Quimper, Brittany, when an elderly neighbour allegedly opened fire at them with a shotgun through a hedge, it is reported.


