Greater Manchester Police recorded more than 10,600 seizures of illegal drugs last year – the highest figure in a decade,

A series of major Oldham drug raids have seen 13 people, including three teenagers, charged with supply or conspiring to supply heroin and crack cocaine by Greater Manchester Police.

A stash of heroin and crack cocaine – worth up to £7,000 – and a significant amount of cash has been uncovered in an early morning raid in Oldham.

A 64-year-old drugs smuggler, who risked his life swallowing 300g of cocaine, is handed a four-year jail sentence after being detained at Manchester Airport.

Following a recent spate of MDMA poisoning, including one in Oldham, a leading US drug safety group are calling for the introduction of drug-checking at events like the Warehouse Project.

Class-A drug abuse occurred in a city-centre takeaway during the early hours of this morning, to the shock of party-goer witnesses.

Oldham tenants using house as drugs den evicted thanks to application of council’s new anti-social behaviour powers

Four men arrested and charged by police after an employee of Prince Charles’ charity collapsed and died from ecstasy poisoning during a ‘lad’s weekend’ at the Warehouse Project in Manchester were facing possible jail terms today.

Three men who ran a drugs gang have been jailed for a combined total of 20 years after Class A drugs amounting to £1.8million was seized by police.

A coroner has castigated revellers as a ‘disgrace’ after they refused to speak to police investigating the death of an Oldham boy who plummeted 40 feet off a balcony during a riotous party.

Joanne’s Kelly’s son Kyle Winterbottom, 16, lost his footing and fell to the ground as he clambered onto a third floor balcony rail in Oldham in a bid to climb down to the floor below during a party.