Eight men have been jailed for supplying drugs in the Manchester area during a large scale operation to combat organised crime gangs.

Three arrested after armed police were dispatched amid numerous reports of victims who had been shot with orange paintball pellets by a group of men over the weekend

Police are now hunting the gunman who had threatened the 14-year-old boy and his friend as they walked along a wooded cut-through between Belthorne Avenue and Moston Lane.

Micheal Lynn, 30, originally from Rhynie Drive, Glasgow, was sentenced to four in prison years after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply class A drugs at an earlier hearing

Matthew Broughton, 29, stepped in to intervene when he spotted the victim being pinned down on a pavement by another woman, before subjecting her to a savage attack for rejecting his advances

Darren Wright, 26, made the taunt after officers posted a mug-shot with the message ‘Come on down to the Nick and we’ll get you a room sorted’

Children’s charity Retrak will be hosting an event at Manchester’s Might and Day Cafe to host funds for African children

Aleysha Rothwell, 16, was discovered yesterday in the Breightmet area of Bolton, days after Kyle Darker, 12, was found hanged in his Eccles home

Mike Mangan, 72, was travelling with his son from Lands End to Minehead when he collided with an oncoming van

Officers found the body of Kyle Darker after responding to a call from ambulance services at an address on Boardman Street, at around 3.30pm yesterday

Musclebound mixed martial arts fanatic Lloyd Seddon, 23, vanished last October while on early parole from a five year jail term for an ‘adrenaline-fuelled’ armed robbery spree