Bin the blade: Police urge Manchester ‘to do right thing’ during knife amnesty
Manchester must ‘bin the blade’ during GMP’s month-long knife surrender campaign, according to Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd.
Found: Ashton boy Braydon Fairhurst, 10, who went missing playing in snow
A boy of 10 who went missing while out throwing snowballs in Ashton last night has been found safe and well.
Teen boy ‘traumatised’ after being raped as he walks dog in Ashton-under-Lyne park
The 14-year-old was walking in the Park Bridge area, when he was grabbed from behind and restrained, with his arm being his back, and sexually assaulted.
Anthony Grainger killing: Trial of GMP chief Sir Peter Fahy collapses
Sir Peter Fahy, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, will not be prosecuted for the death of Anthony Grainger after the case against him was dropped.
The Pusher? Police quash rumours that ‘serial killer’ stalks Manchester canals
National newspapers including The Daily Express, Mirror and Independent, this week suggested a possible link between the deaths of 61 bodies pulled out of the city’s canals during the last six years.
Santa’s (big) helpers: 99,000 North West workers were slogging away on Xmas day
There’s nothing quite like finishing work for the festive period to spend well-earned time on the sofa watching films with a tin of Quality Streets.
Handyman killed ‘by mistake’ when Bolton mother-in-law hires hitman to beat him up
Marc Jepson, 40, paid with his life when he became locked in a bitter family fall out with Irene Hodgkiss, 63, after he split up with wife Sandra.
Charlie Hebdo terror attack: Manchester vigil shows Paris solidarity
The terror attack on Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris was marked in Piccadilly Gardens last night as mourners gathered for a candlelit vigil.
Charlie Hebdo massacre: GMP vigil salutes those who ‘died protecting free speech’
Greater Manchester Police have marked the murders of twelve Parisians at the Charlier with a small ceremony and two minutes silence outside the Charles Hale road headquarters.
Four years in jail for Urmston sex abuse pensioner… with victims as young as seven
An Urmston pensioner has been jailed for four years for a string of historic sex crimes against young girls – one who was just seven.
Detectives urge Manchester to break ‘wall of silence’ over Clarence ‘Clay’ Edwards killing
Detectives investigating the gangland murder of a hoodlum outside a Manchester nightclub urged the city to break down its ‘wall of silence’ over Saturday’s savage killing.