Greater Manchester Police’s initiative to Bin the Blade is a success as more than 1,500 weapons are removed from the city’s streets in a month-long amnesty.

The hunt is on to find a man who raped a 40-year-old woman in a violent attack in Angles Meadows Park near Victoria station, central Manchester.

A drug dealer who used his elderly mum’s car to deal cocaine around Manchester has been jailed after the substance was found stuffed in his underwear.

Ten men have been charged as part of an ongoing investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rochdale.

After pulling over to help the driver of an overturned lorry, a Manchester Good Samaritan was shocked to find the lorry driver jump into his own van and drive off – leaving him clinging to the vehicle.

Organised animal fighting is rife in Manchester as RSPCA figures reveal the city ranks third worst for this offence in the country.

John is the unapologetic, visceral and devastating true tale of one man’s search for acceptance from within a life abandoned by society and family.

Adam Curnock, 31, of Harley Avenue, Harwood, admitted to numerous child sex offences, including sexually assaulting a child, taking, possessing and making indecent images of a child.

The 12-year-olds, from Levenshulme and Reddish in Stockport, called 999 from their mobile phones between 6 September 2014 and 12 October 2014 with each call prompting response from at least one of the emergency services.

The girl was home alone when the two burglars broke into the kitchen door with a paving slab, before dragging her upstairs and tying her up with the wire from a phone-charger.

A good samaritan prevented a bike-riding thief from escaping with a mobile phone after it was snatched out of a woman’s hand in Manchester city centre.