Shops selling counterfeit goods in the Strangeways area have been shut down by Manchester City Council.

A Manchester magistrate’s campaign against mandatory court charges for offenders has succeeded after the Justice Secretary announced that they will be scrapped.

A man, who posted sexually explicit photos of a woman on Facebook without her consent, has been jailed in the first sentencing in Greater Manchester under new revenge porn legislation.

A Burnage driver, who was caught using his dead father’s disabled badge to get free parking, has been prosecuted and fined more than £500 including legal costs.

Mother of Kirsty Bigland, 30, who was still in her white wedding dress, shouted ‘Fucking monkeys’ and Paki bastard’, when a card payment was refused as she and her husband Nick, 25, tried to check into their room, it was claimed

Former Manchester United prodigy Ravel Morrison threatened to throw acid in his ex-girlfriend’s face, blow up her house and have her killed, a court has heard.

A 63-year-old Urmston man has been charged with sexually abusing children over a 20 year period – including the alleged rape of a child.

A man has died a week after he was assaulted at a Salford apartment block.

Donald McEwan, aged 50, received two four month sentences for the offence of supply and possession of unclassified films, during a hearing at Manchester Magistrates’ Court

Sophie Dalzell, 20, has escaped jail despite missing two meetings… so she could have a boob job.

Doherty avoided a jail sentence after head-butting brother in a pub brawl.