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Rochdale, Bolton and Oldham are the areas worst affected by financial worries, new research has found.

The Greater Manchester towns have increasingly high debt-related searches every month, along with high unemployment rates and living costs according to new research from financial experts Sambla.

According to research by the Citizens Advice Bureau, almost 250,000 people are ‘living in the red’ across the region.

Bolton and Oldham are two of the hardest hit boroughs in the region, according to the research, with around one in 10 people – 33,000 people in Bolton and 22,000 in Oldham – struggling to cover food and bills

Measuring the volume of searches in comparison to the population, the areas most commonly turning to search engines for debt advice include Bolton, Rochdale, Manchester, Croydon and Newcastle.

The index was created by gathering the Google search volume for debt-related search terms in the top 100 of England’s most populated towns and cities between January 2024 and …