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.

A heroic man chased away four hooded men who wielded a shotgun after they held his friends at gunpoint outside Hulme park.

Police are appealing for information after a woman was sexually assaulted as she withdrew money from a cash machine in Altrincham.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Manchester-based ex-offenders scheme Gate Buddies has been shortlisted for a national award celebrating its high success rate in rehabilitating former prisoners.

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.

Greater Manchester Police are appealing for infromation after a bomb threat at a William Hill gambling shop in Eccles, Salford, left staff but ‘understandably shaken by this traumatic ordeal’ yesterday morning.