Deacon Alan Morris, 64, of Rivington Road, Hale, preyed on young boys during his time at St Ambrose RC College, an all-boys grammar school where a ‘culture of abuse was rife’.

An Oldham family’s dog was left temporarily blinded and with an ulcerated eye after thieves sprayed ammonia in its face when breaking into a house.

Officers want to trace Peter Thomas 27, in connection with a string of armed robberies at businesses predominately in the Stockport area of Greater Manchester

Police were called to a community football pitch in Herristone Park in Crumpsall, north Manchester, at 7.45pm on Tuesday after reports that a boy had been stabbed

A Rochdale road thug who repeatedly rammed a police car while driving a stolen Land Rover in a high-speed pursuit has been jailed for 15 months.

National Dog Day, now in its tenth year, puts pooches in the limelight on August 26 every year, and has plenty of pedigree

The three victims, men aged 28, 29 and 26, were hospitalised after being stabbed at The Railway Inn, Commercial Brow, Hyde, on Sunday night.

Three people have been arrested on suspicion of assault after a woman was kicked in the head and left with a serious eye injury at a pub in Bolton.

The woman called her 32-year-old boyfriend who was told by the person who answered that a £50 ransom had to be paid for him to return home

Graham Hudson spent eight years behind bars and three years on the streets battling drug and alcohol abuse

A man has been jailed for five years after killing popular Manchester clubber ‘Salford John’ Millett with a single punch to the face.