An ex-police man has been jailed and another has been given a suspended sentence for stealing nearly £10,000 worth of drugs from police stations in Longsight and West Didsbury.

A ‘violent thug’ who punched his heavily pregnant teen partner in the stomach, causing her to lose her baby has been sentenced to four years and eight months in a young offender’s institute.

A 64-year-old drugs smuggler, who risked his life swallowing 300g of cocaine, is handed a four-year jail sentence after being detained at Manchester Airport.

An old Chorlton man, branded Britain’s rudest pensioner, has been jailed again after decades of bad and grumpy behaviour which has seen him locked up more than FIFTY times.

Timothy Edwards, who was captain of the prestigious Saddleworth Golf Club in Greater Manchester, was found to have explicit images of children on his home computer when he was arrested by police.

Iraq War veteran from Bolton, Garry Reader, found guilty of raping a six-year-old girl, jailed for 11 years at Bolton Crown Court

A Wigan conman who stabbed a pensioner to death in his own home after he duped them into taking stolen goods has been jailed for life.

A washed up ex-professional footballer who had trials at Manchester United and City before he masqueraded as a Premier League star to maintain his celebrity lifestyle has been jailed for four years.

A banned drink driver who crashed into a Manchester bus stop and sent a metal pole flying into two pedestrians, killing one, was jailed today.

Stuart Coope, of Minster Road, Moston, pleaded guilty to attempted murder after stabbing and slashing his 39-year-old boyfriend in the early hours of Saturday, March 29

A Rochdale road thug who repeatedly rammed a police car while driving a stolen Land Rover in a high-speed pursuit has been jailed for 15 months.