Video footage showed Robert Browne, 56, hurling abuse at man on a street in Cheadle

A former soldier has pleaded guilty to a racist assault on a man of Asian heritage after chasing him down the street with two umbrellas and using a racial slur.

Robert Browne, 56, pleaded guilty on Thursday at Tameside magistrates court to racially/religiously aggravated common assault/beating on 26 July this year after a video showed him hurling racist abuse at a man and striking him with umbrellas. A second charge was withdrawn.

News follows earlier announcement that four Vietnamese nationals were missing after fire in May

Human remains discovered by workers demolishing a mill in Oldham have been confirmed as four separate victims, including one identified as a Vietnamese national, police have said.

It was not believed anyone was inside at the time of the fire at Bismark House Mill on Bower Street in May. But after remains were discovered on 23 July, police confirmed that four Vietnamese people were missing.

Uoc Van Nguyen was one of the four Vietnamese nationals reported missing after the fire

The partial human remains of one of the four men feared dead following a fire at a mill in Oldham have been identified.

Authorities were able to identify through fingerprint analysis the remains as having belonged to Uoc Van Nguyen. Further DNA testing is still to come.