Ethel Irene Ditcher, known as Irene to friends and family, was hit by an HGV on Leigh Road at 11:45am and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police are searching for a woman who may be the key to locating two men responsible for an unprovoked attack on a family of three on a Manchester tram-stop in January.

Authorities were called to Leigh Road around 11.45 am yesterday, following reports that a woman had been hit by a lorry.

An Altrincham family are ‘distraught’ after burglars broke into their home and stole £33,000 worth of valuables and eight passports, forcing them to cancel their holiday.

Armed officers were called to Crescent Drive in Little Hulton to reports of a firearms discharge around 9.10pm on January 26.

This CCTV footage shows the terrifying moment Middleton shoppers faced a masked gang brandishing a meat cleaver, sledgehammer, axe and even a samurai sword in a raid on a security van.

The victim, who is four months pregnant, had just left a newsagents on Hodge Street and was getting into her car when she was grabbed from behind and threw to the floor at about 12.40pm on Jarnuary 17.

A man who punched a 15-year-old schoolgirl to the ground before raping her in a Salford alleyway last week, is still being hunted by police.

A tour van containing £25,000 worth of ‘irreplaceable’ equipment was stolen from a Manchester band this morning.

Motorists are being urged to sit in their cars when de-icing them this winter, following a spate of vehicle thefts that occurred last year.

The family friend of murdered Middleton soldier Lee Rigby says the killer should ‘rot in hell’ after his attempts to challenge his life sentence were quashed earlier today.