A balaclava-wearing man struck the mayor’s driver with the hammer as he placed a briefcase containing the chains into the boot of a car at around 10.15pm in the Stand Lane area of Radcliffe.

Halloween is here and Greater Manchester Police are revealing all the spooky 999 call they have received in the last few years

Although Norwich have picked up only three points from five games since late September, Bolton’s Neil Lennon believes the trip to Carrow Road this evening will be one of the most difficult of the season

A heavily-pregnant woman was injured when her car windscreen was shattered by stones dropped by yobs from a nearby bridge.

Labour MP Lucy Powell has slammed Philip Davies for comments he made to Parliament that suggested sex education was leading to more teenage pregnancies.

Manchester County Football Association President Frank Hannah dies aged 90

A knife-wielding thug who threatened a Wigan shopkeeper in a vile racist attack, claiming ‘I’ll kill every immigrant’, is being hunted by police.

Manchester-based singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy is known for his unconventional methods of performing – and his latest showcase was no different as he treated Metrolink users to a mini-gig.

Urmston’s Festive Bake fanatic proves his love for Greggs pasties with 360 mile round trip to Cardiff for taste of the bakery’s first Christmas treat of the season

Greater Manchester’s troubled families are having their lives turned around by a new government programme

A Landrover was driven full force into a Coop store in South Manchester in the early hours of this morning in an attempted burglary, before being set on fire by its reckless driver.