A Salford career criminal has been branded a ‘menace to society’ by a judge after he become so addicted to burglary he filched pots of yoghurt and bottles of milk during a three week crimewave on a single neighbourhood.

A 26-year-old man who was stabbed to death in Manchester city centre had been previously jailed in connection with another nightclub murder nearly three years to the day he died on Sunday.

A spike in LGBT hate crime is only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ according to council leader, Mike Connolly.

A drug dealer, who was caught smuggling £6.5million of heroin in the back of a taxi on a journey to Manchester, has been jailed for 11 years.

A policewoman who leaked confidential details about the manhunt for Dale Cregan so she could give her sister some ‘gossip’ about the double cop killer wept as she was jailed for almost three years today.

With news that the drink driving limit in Scotland is to be lowered, it’s almost inevitable that the same changes will eventually be brought to England.

An attacker as young as 12-years-old is believed to be behind a string of sexual assaults carried out on five women in Whalley Range.

A Rochdale factory raid has rescued 20 Eastern European immigrants who were getting paid paid less than two pound per hour for working more than 80 hours per week.

The suspects were held after film taken on a mobile phone of what appeared to be an organised brawl outside Pure Gym, near Alexandra Park, was viewed by thousands of people on YouTube.

Police are searching for three men involved in a sinister attack on the chef and owner of an Oldham takeaway late on Tuesday night.

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