A Manchester family who were the victims of two terrifying burglaries dashing their dream holiday to Disney World have had their dreams come true – after a GMP officer raised £1,570 for them.

The girls, who were apparently going to a One Direction concert at the Etihad Stadium on May 30, were followed down Fairfied Street by a man in a five-door silver Vauxhall Astra who kept stopping close to them.

Greater Manchester Police have found a new way of showing their support for the gay and lesbian community with an eye-catching rainbow police car – just in time for Manchester Pride.

Nikola Bradford, 36, became so hooked on taking the non-prescription tablets for her bad back she tried to kick her habit by urging local chemists not to sell them to her.

A reveller who was smashed over the head with a piece of concrete in an unprovoked assault in Manchester city centre has been urged to come forward by police.

Gold jewellery was targeted in numerous break-ins of predominately Asian families across the north Manchester and Salford areas since April.

Police were received a call around 7pm on Wednesday after a body was spotted from the tow path near the A57 Regent Road, behind the Grosvenor Casino in Salford

Greater Manchester Police have seized a horde of firearms, including a missile, believed to have been from the First and Second World Wars at a house in Dunkfield.

Despite major falls in gun crime in the area, Greater Manchester Police have announced a two week weapons amnesty giving hoodlums a fortnight to surrender firearms and ammunition with no questions asked

More than 15 kilos of cannabis, with an estimated street value of £150,000, has been discovered in a disused bakery in Oldham.

The mother, 30, was inside her home on Widcombe Drive, Breightmet, with her 10 month old baby at around noon yesterday when a man used a brick to smash through the patio doors of a house