A Wigan school bus driver is facing a police investigation after he ditched his usual route home in a fit of frustration – to dump a group of rowdy pupils back in the playground.

A woman trespassing on Stockport viaduct earlier this morning has been led to safety by emergency crews.

A 51-year-old man has been left with a fractured skull and a bleed on the brain after a vicious petrol station attack in Fallowfield.

Jewish communities across Greater Manchester will receive better protection and more police patrols during an upcoming series of religious holidays.

The family of a Manchester policeman shot dead in a training exercise have said they believe the officers responsible should have faced criminal charges after one was forced to resign.

A Bolton Wanderers supporter has been handed a three-year football banning order for unleashed a tirade of racist abuse against two of his own players and manager Dougie Freedman.

Greater Manchester Police are urging the public to keep the identity of a youth arrested on suspicion of an arson attack at Manchester Dog’s Home anonymous.

A bumbling drug dealer has been caged after leaving his fingerprints on a Nando’s napkin that he used to wrap his cocaine in.

CCTV footage has been released of the driver of a car which failed to stop after ploughing into an 10-year-old boy in Tameside.

A man was glassed in the face on Saturday night in a ‘violent and unprovoked assault’ after bumping into another man on his way to the toilet at a Trafford bar.

A masked thief made an arse of a robbery when he exposed his face – and his underwear – during an armed raid on a newsagents in Levenshulme.