A shopkeeper has expressed his devastation and shock after 190 Christmas trees were stolen from a Chorlton minimarket three weeks ago.

A three-year-old child was threatened at gunpoint whilst walking to school, when a man robbed a mother in Sale on Friday morning.

Local communities have been called upon to work together to prevent burglary, as the Greater Manchester Police go through ‘challenging times’.

Violent crime in Greater Manchester has risen by 39% in the last year, whilst the number of sexual offences has risen by 52%.

A haul of Class A drugs has been seized and a cannabis farm shut down as hundreds of police descended on Salford to eradicate the organised crime groups ‘poisoning our streets’.

Greater Manchester Police’s deputy chief constable has issued a warning to gun criminals in Salford after two men shot a mother and her son last night in a ‘sickening’ attack.

The number of reported sexual offences in schools in Greater Manchester has risen by 54%, according to an FOI released by the GMP.

Police were called at around 6:20am on Saturday September 5, 2015, after a man had been reportedly raped in a car park just off Manchester Road, Bolton

A Masters student is in critical condition after being left for dead by a hit-and-run black cab driver in the early hours of the morning last weekend.

Just before 11am a suspicious passer-by called 999 after an edgy looking man approached him and reportedly tried to sell him joints of meat, which he presumed were stolen.

Two detectives from GMP’s cyber-crime team will give a presentation on online security at a free networking event being held by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) at Eccles’ Church Street RBS bank.