The RSPCA has launched an investigation into the deaths of three badger cubs found dead and skinned near their sett

Enquiries are continuing in relation to the attack at the Arndale Shopping Centre earlier today.

Labour MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, Debbie Abrahams, calls for Prime Minister David Cameron to launch an investigation into Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith for falsifying benefits claimants’ quotes.

A masked duo, brandishing a sword and a hammer, has raided the tills of a Rochdale supermarket – police are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.

A Bolton man was left fighting for his life after a fire blazed through his home, where he lived alone.

An inquest into the ‘tragic’ death of Jordon Begley after he was Tasered by police has raised ‘serious issues’ about the officers’ conduct – GMP have extended their sympathies to his ‘devastated’ family.

A Manchester expert has claimed that more research needs to be done into finding treatments for schizophrenia that don’t add to the likelihood of sufferers dying prematurely.

Greater Manchester Police have apologised to more than 40 vulnerable girls across Rochdale and Heywood after failing to realise the extent of child sexual exploitation in the area.

The victim, who was 14 or 15-years-old at the time of the incident, was sexually abused at the swimming pool of Stockport Leisure Center and also in woodlands at Lyme Park in Cheshire, near Disley between 1996 and 1999.

Jennifer Cross, 36, from Salford, was hit by a car near to Bank Lane, Irlam o’ th’ Heights at around 5.35pm and shortly died after being taken to hospital.

A Manchester mother-of-nine speaks out on being wrongly treated as a suspect by detectives during a secret 17-month investigation in the death on her 11-month-old baby Heidi