Detectives posed as builders to tackle a black market in scrap metal, but target Gary Dolan, 44, was acquitted by the jury after just an hour.

A man who was ‘stabbed with such ferocity his windpipe was cut’ in Manchester City centre is lucky to be alive, say police.

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.

Uncontrollable shoppers fighting to get their ‘Black Friday’ bargains forced police to be called to seven Tesco stores across Greater Manchester last night.

Greater Manchester Police have responded to reports in the past few months from students having their cards stolen whilst intoxicated in the city centre and Fallowfield.

This CCTV footage shows the moment three brazen masked men used a homemade battering ram to smash down a front door in Blackley and terrorise the owners last week.

The death of a 29-year-old man who was found dead in Manchester city centre isn’t being treated as suspicious – Police have confirmed.

The girl had been playing outside at about 3.50pm on November 15 when she walked into the road and was hit by a car similar to a Toyota Avensis.

Dealers of party drugs were condemned as a ‘heinous blot on our civilisation’ by a coroner at an inquest today after a Warehouse Project reveller died of Ecstasy poisoning during a lad’s weekend.

Piccadilly Gardens has the highest number of reported ‘fatal’ and ‘serious’ collisions in the city, figures reveal.

Police have begun a manhunt for three smartly-dressed violent offenders who left a man brutally injured outside an Failsworth pub at the weekend.