The son of former world snooker champion Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins is facing jail after he admitted carrying out a dawn robbery on a Manchester newsagents.

Jobless grandfather William Harkin built a fake bomb and planted it outside a Middleton job centre in revenge over a cut to his welfare handouts was jailed for two years today.

A young Crumpsall woman who vowed to get her life back on track after her face was ravaged by the effects of taking a party drug is facing jail after she admitting carrying out a drunken knife attack.

An ice cream man has been banned from driving for 18 months after he killed a motorcyclist in a head on road smash while out on his rounds in Bolton.

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Father of five Varmuyan Sirleaf, 46, agreed to do a theory exam as a ‘favour’ for close friend Musa Kormah who feared he would not pass.

Frances Andrade, 48, was ‘extremely traumatised’ after testifying about abuse she suffered as a teenager at the hands of her ex-Chetham’s School of Music choirmaster Michael Brewer and his wife Hilary.

Three men who ran a drugs gang have been jailed for a combined total of 20 years after Class A drugs amounting to £1.8million was seized by police.

Former BBC correspondent Peter Greste, from Australia, ex-CNN journalist Mohamed Fahmy, and Egyptian based producer Baher Mohamed were jailed for seven, seven and 10 years respectively.

Dennis Whitfield, 66, managed to swindle £244,000 from eight clients through a variety of ‘manipulative’ stories, even going so far as to tell one victim he was using the money to buy her expensive medication to fight cancer.

A speeding motorist who killed a cyclist on a pedestrian crossing in Manchester city centre has escaped being charged – as there was no official speed sign saying it was 30mph.