Manchester is set to Sparkle this weekend as the world-renowned event is back to celebrate all things transgender.

A man, who invaded the homes of two mums as they slept with their children, raping one and attempting to rape the other is still on the loose.

A man has been abducted in broad daylight from Market Street, dragged through the city centre and forced onto a train to Wigan with the threat of violence.

A series of major Oldham drug raids have seen 13 people, including three teenagers, charged with supply or conspiring to supply heroin and crack cocaine by Greater Manchester Police.

Metal cylinders, once containing the potentially lethal ‘legal high’ laughing gas, that are littered across Salford by users are being transformed into a community art project by police officers.

Wigan’s community has been left ‘immensely distressed’ after callous vandals struck a cemetery, defacing several headstones.

An inquest into the ‘tragic’ death of Jordon Begley after he was Tasered by police has raised ‘serious issues’ about the officers’ conduct – GMP have extended their sympathies to his ‘devastated’ family.

A brave man has been left with two fractured eye sockets after trying to ‘defend the honour’ of his partner and her friend after a brute jumped into their taxi and hurled abuse at them outside Blackdog Ballroom in Northern Quarter

Video of a ‘vicious’ and ‘completely unprovoked’ gang attack on three men near Deansgate Locks has been released by GMP in a bid to catch the thugs responsible.

Bolton’s serial flasher, who exposed himself to a 14-year-old girl and four women between 23 and 41 in just six hours, is still on the loose but police have managed to put together an e-fit of the pervert.

Greater Manchester Police have released CCTV footage of a man they believe to be the pervert wanted for a string of indecent exposures in Bolton – the latest assault was on a 15-year-old girl.