manchester news

Rekorderlig Summer Cider Garden brings taste of Sweden to Manchester's Great Northern Square

MM visited the garden on it's launch night
Bungalow blaze kills Tameside woman – ‘smoking’ in bedroom may have sparked inferno

Firefighters on hand to console shocked community
Butter up! Sandwich-making world record attempt to attract more than 500 entrants in MediaCity challenge

Event organised for British Sandwich Week
Salford prison break fugitive Ryan MacDonald sentenced to seven years while on run for 'ruthless' robberies

CCTV footage shows dangerous gang at work
JAILED: Life imprisonment for man who beat girlfriend’s baby daughter to death in Tameside

Ben Raftery found guilty of murdering baby
A gun, an axe and a sawn-off shotgun: Terrifying arsenal of ruthless gang behind Salford prisoner escape

Police release more details of ambush
Heart-broken family pay tribute to grandfather, 75, killed in crash near Leigh – lorry driver in custody

Paul Garratt died on Wednesday
‘Deeply horrified’ Coronation Street actor Bill Roache vows to fight rape charge – but still cut from show

Roache 'strenuously denies' rape claims
Guilty: Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall faces jail after admitting child sex abuse – with one victim aged NINE

Hall, 83, admits to 13 offences
Coronation Street actor William Roache arrested on suspicion of rape – star axed from soap pending investigation

Ken Barlow actor arrested this morning