Historians have been set the challenge of finding the last resting place of 21-year-old Franciscus Alphonsus Van den Eynde who died in Salford a century ago.

The net is closing in on sick vandals who caused £60,000 worth of damage when they scrawled Nazi swastikas on a Jewish cemetery as Greater Manchester police scour CCTV footage.

Terence Boyle, 68, was ambushed by a mugger as he lay flowers on his parent’s grave