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.

A mum of five was killed by her fiance with a ‘single devastating punch’ in an argument over whether to take a bus or a taxi home after a night out in Manchester, a court was told.

A young Moston couple who left their baby to drown in the bath wept in the dock of a courtroom as they were accused of failing in the ‘most basic of parental responsibilities’ today.

Greater Manchester killer Paul O’Hara was today sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his girlfriend Cherylee Shennan in a frenzied knife attack.

A proud mother was killed in an Oldham car smash as she excitedly raced to get her 13 month son to a modelling assignment.

Amy Hobson, 22, was in the passenger seat with her partner, Aaron Tulsa Jones, a 19-year-old from Horwich, when the Vauxhall Corsa they were travelling in collided with an Audi RS3 and on East Lancashire Road, Swinton, just before 5.pm last Sunday

James Haggerty, 20, from Ashton-under-Lyne, was on his moped when he collided with a bus on the party resort of Ayia Napa on June 15.

Steven James Ward. 25, of South Avenue, Swinton, is charged with two counts of dangerous driving

Manchester City’s Yaya Toure has claimed the club denied him compassionate leave to visit his dying brother – as rumours of a summer Etihad exit grow.

Carl David Wood, of St James Street, Farnworth, is due to appear in court today charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous.