A former radio presenter says he is 'in a spin' with the Morrisons supermarket in Chadderton after all three of its cash machines go out of action 'for weeks'.

Joe Patricks has racked up an impressive portfolio of radio presenting, having started at the age of 17 working at TramTracks in Royton as a disc jockey before presenting on Piccadilly Radio for eight "ish" years and a further five on Magic 828 Lees, including a Saturday breakfast show.

He also worked as an assistant producer and programme assistant for BBC Manchester for six years and as a TV extra for around a decade.

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All three cash machines were not distributing cash for at least two weeksAll three cash machines were not distributing cash for at least two weeks (Image: Joe Patricks)

Now enjoying semi-retirement in Blackley, Joe has called on the Morrisons Chadderton store to take action on its cash machines after they were left out of order for more than two weeks.

He said the supermarket's three cash points have been displaying the same error message, that there is no cash available. 

Joe said: "This is a great inconvenience for customers who use cash in-store.

"It's a reason not to shop at Morrisons until this is fixed.

"I wonder if this is a way to force people to use cards and for the store to go cashless like some other stores have.

"In the meantime, I have to go to Tesco whose machines continue to work."

The error message on the machineThe error message on the machine (Image: Joe Patricks)

The disgruntled shopper said he complained to the head office in Bradford which reportedly told him that staff were working with Note Machine to get the cash points up and running again but that it could not confirm when they would be working.

Joe said he was told the points were not dispensing cash "because of a security issue".

As of Tuesday (September 24), one cash machine appeared to be working again and Joe said Morrisons has installed more self-service machines where "only a few out of all [them] accept cash and card, when all of them could".

A spokesperson for Morrisons said: "We take this matter very seriously, and will be investigating further with the store."

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