‘Know your limits’: GMP urge Mad Friday revellers to ‘go home in taxi, not ambulance’
‘Mad Friday’, the last working day in December, traditionally marks the official countdown to Christmas as people celebrate finishing work for the festive period.
‘It shatters lives’: More safe houses and ‘stronger safety net’ for Oldham domestic abuse victims with £70k grant
Oldham domestic abuse victims will soon have more places to escape to for refuge, help and support thanks to a £70,000 government grant to tackle the lack of safe houses in the area.
‘I love my trees, I hug them all’: Chorlton shopkeeper ‘still sad’ after ‘devastating’ theft of 190 Christmas ferns
A shopkeeper has expressed his devastation and shock after 190 Christmas trees were stolen from a Chorlton minimarket three weeks ago.
Salford photographer wants exhibition to counter media’s negative portrayal of Barton Moss anti-fracking protesters
A photographer, who documented the Salford protests against fracking that made headlines last year, has set up a crowdfunder in order to stage an exhibition called the Battle of Barton Moss at the People’s History Museum next year.
Three-year-old threatened at gunpoint on way to school in ‘terrifying’ Sale robbery
A three-year-old child was threatened at gunpoint whilst walking to school, when a man robbed a mother in Sale on Friday morning.
‘Turning point on road to rehabilitation’: GMP show support for restorative justice
Greater Manchester Police has shown its support for International Restorative Justice Week by revealing the story of how racial abuse victims became friends with their abusers.
Rape and sex assault reports up by 45% but prosecutions across Manchester fall
According to a Freedom of Information Act request by Mancunian Matters, Greater Manchester Police received 5,935 reports of rape and sexual assault this year and 4,085 the year before.
CCTV images released after distraction burglars target woman, 81, in Bury
An 81-year-old woman fell victim to distraction burglars last month.
Wigan couple fined £3k for blaming ‘flagrant’ abuse of speeding laws on foreigners
A husband and wife who consistently fed falsified information to the police, after ‘flagrantly flouting the driving laws’, were this morning fined £3000 and given a suspended prison sentence.
‘Your community needs you’: GMP calls for neighbourhood spirit in ‘challenging times’
Local communities have been called upon to work together to prevent burglary, as the Greater Manchester Police go through ‘challenging times’.
‘Increasingly difficult to put public at ease’: Lloyd admits concern as crime rates rise
Violent crime in Greater Manchester has risen by 39% in the last year, whilst the number of sexual offences has risen by 52%.