Greater Manchester

'Lout' assaults off-duty police officer on Manchester tram after being confronted over smoking

Victim challenged group's 'loutish behaviour'
Dale Cregan trial: One-eyed defendant's phone sited in Droylsden shortly after Cotton Tree murder of Mark Short

Dale Cregan murder trial summary for day 12
LIVE UPDATES: Dale Cregan murder trial day 12... as it happens

Latest news from Preston Crown Court
Greater Manchester schoolgirl's 'incredibly symbolic' artwork to be immortalised in six-foot stone design

Stone design will be in Sale's Worthington Park
‘Families badly let down’: Wigan MP attacks Prime Minister David Cameron over children’s centre funding slash

Sure Start Children's Centres funding has been slashed
Dale Cregan murder trial: Co-defendant wept as charges read by police over Mark Short pub slaying

Round-up of day 11 in murder trial
Mercedes stabbing attack: Arrest after Wigan man knifed 12 times and left for dead on doorstep

Police arrest two men on suspicion of attempted murder
Battered with spanners: Father and son rammed by car while driving then attacked in south Manchester

Victims' car were rammed into before assault in Burnage
Comedy review: Justin Moorhouse's Justin Time Tour @ The Lowry, Salford Quays – February 15

Justin Moorhouse takes the crowd on a laugh-a-minute journey
Manchester smoking death rates highest in England – with hospital admissions costing EVERY person £60

A shocking 14.6% of pregnant women smoked in 2011-2012