Facebook vigilantes: Alleged Wigan paedophiles attacked, filmed and blackmailed
Wigan police are asking residents not to join paedophile vigilante groups after a man was arrested for assault and blackmail after a Facebook grooming sting.
Jailed: Violent thug who punched heavily pregnant teen partner in stomach causing her to lose baby
A ‘violent thug’ who punched his heavily pregnant teen partner in the stomach, causing her to lose her baby has been sentenced to four years and eight months in a young offender’s institute.
Hulme hijack hero: Student chases away hooded gang holding friends at gunpoint
A heroic man chased away four hooded men who wielded a shotgun after they held his friends at gunpoint outside Hulme park.
Police call for witnesses to sex attack on woman at Altrincham cash machine
Police are appealing for information after a woman was sexually assaulted as she withdrew money from a cash machine in Altrincham.
Altrincham gang attack: CCTV appeal after man left with fractured eye socket
GMP are appealing for information after a man sustained a fractured eye socket from being repeatedly punched and kicked in the head by a gang of men in an unprovoked attack outside an Altrincham takeaway last month.
Car wash shooting: Man shot in Wigan rushed to hospital with ‘serious injuries’
Police were called to Bolton Road, Ashton, in Makerfield shortly before 5.20pm on Monday March 30 following reports that shots had been fired in the residential area.
Witness appeal: Moston woman on mobility scooter mowed down and killed
Witnesses are being asked to come forward to help trace a driver who killed a woman by knocking her off a mobility scooter during a road collision.
Salford pub machete attack: Two held on suspicion of brutal attempted murder
Two arrests for murder have been made after last weekend’s brutal machete attack outside a Salford pub left a 28-year-old man for dead.
‘Vulnerable’ Wigan pensioner held at ‘gunpoint’ during home robbery
A ‘vulnerable’ Wigan pensioner has been left ‘extremely shaken’ after she was ‘robbed at gunpoint’ in her own home on Monday – Greater Manchester Police appeal for witnesses.
Life on the outside: Manchester ex-prisoners scheme up for national award
A Manchester-based ex-offenders scheme Gate Buddies has been shortlisted for a national award celebrating its high success rate in rehabilitating former prisoners.
GMP officer shot by Dale Cregan commemorated with baton relay across Britain
The PC Nicola Hughes Memorial Fund is organising an event with a difference, to celebrate the life of the 23-year-old Greater Manchester Police officer murdered by Dale Creegan.