Police detectives have launched a murder investigation and are offering a £50,000 reward for information after an elderly woman died weeks after a violent robbery in Stretford.

An off-duty female Cheshire Police officer has been named as one of the dead after Monday’s terror attack at Manchester Arena.

Live updates throughout the day in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena terrorist attack last night – which killed 22 people including an eight-year-old girl and injured 59, say Greater Manchester Police.

Several people – including some armed with clubs – climbed on top of the old Cornerhouse cinema on Oxford Road, bring the busy area to a standstill at lunchtime.

A total of 11 people were found collapsed after taking the drug Spice in Manchester city centre.

Safe Haven, the initiative introduced in 2015 to provide support to vulnerable individuals on a Saturday night-out in the city centre, has closed its doors.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) lost more than 1,000 pieces of evidence between 2011-16 according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) report.

Earlier this week the GMP City Centre tweeted a comment which irked some Twitter users.

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request obtained by Mancunian Matters from GMP revealed that in 2012/13 there were 9,921 charges given to young people whereas last year it had been reduced to 6,776.

An expert on football policing and hooliganism is confident Mancunian football fans will keep out of trouble in Europe next season, and blamed the French police for violence which marred the start of England’s Euro 2016 campaign.

A ‘calculating’ and ‘predatory’ man from Rochdale who admitted sexually exploiting children online has been sentenced to ten years in prison.