{"id":366865,"date":"2025-08-23T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366865\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:17:10","slug":"human-remains-found-in-lancashire-may-belong-to-children-say-police-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366865\/","title":{"rendered":"Human remains found in Lancashire may belong to children, say police | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human remains found by builders in Lancashire may belong to children, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Fylde police officers were contacted at 12.37pm on 15 August after builders working on a house in Cleveland Road in Lytham found what they believed to be bones.<\/p>\n<p>After confirming the remains are human, police have said that &#8220;they may be that of children&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery is not being treated as suspicious, however, and officers believe &#8220;this is an isolated historical burial&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an incredibly sad discovery, and we are continuing our inquiries to establish the identity of the remains, including their age and how they died,&#8221; said DI Andrew Crook of West CID.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/us-justice-department-releases-ghislaine-maxwell-interview-transcript-13416405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Epstein&#8217;s right-hand woman says about Trump and Prince Andrew<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/third-arrest-over-sex-toy-throwing-at-womens-basketball-games-13415991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Third arrest over sex toy throwing at women&#8217;s basketball games<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/why-donald-trump-believes-he-deserves-the-nobel-peace-prize-and-ended-seven-wars-13415259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Donald Trump believes he &#8216;deserves the Nobel Peace Prize&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whilst we are keeping an open mind, I want to make it clear that we are not treating this as suspicious. We believe at this stage that the burial is a historic one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to thank the homeowners and contractors for their patience whilst our inquiries were ongoing at the property.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The remains have now been removed from the property, and inquiries will continue to attempt to identify who they are, police said.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" data-testid=\"app-promo\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police have asked for anyone with information that could assist in identifying them to get in touch on 101 quoting log 0616 of 15 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human remains found by builders in Lancashire may belong to children, according to police. Fylde police officers were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-366865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115077332618683822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}