John McCaffrey, who has a previous conviction for drink driving dating back to 2009, claimed he had struggling to cope after the death of his wife from cancer.

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.

Salford boxer Jamie Moore remains under armed guard in a Marbella hospital after being shot in the kneecaps in a gangland-style attack.

Two women remain in a critical condition and are fighting for their lives after a road traffic collision on the Northbound carriage way of the M61 in Manchester.

Two men have been sent to jail for stabbing an innocent teenager to death in Manchester – only moments after they posed with a Rambo style hunting knife.

A man was left needing twenty stitches to his face after being bitten during an assault in Manchester City Centre.

A 44-year-old man has died in Manchester after taking a ‘legal high’.

Police are hunting a gunman who blasted the front of a house in Wigan and then fired at two bystanders early this morning.

A 13-year-old boy has been charged in connection with the anti-Semitic race hate attack on a Jewish cemetery in Blackley, north Manchester, last month.

Around 10am, officers from Greater Manchester Police’s Tactical Aid Unit (TAU) stopped a silver BMW on Tib Street, Manchester

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 49-year-old woman’s body was found in the back garden of a Salford home.