An Atherton teenage girl who took a fatal overdose of insulin may have been taking the hormone as an aid to lose weight, an inquest heard.

Doctors are fighting to save a young mother’s sight after the heel of a stiletto shoe hit her in the eye during a freak attack at a pub in Bolton.

The three victims, men aged 28, 29 and 26, were hospitalised after being stabbed at The Railway Inn, Commercial Brow, Hyde, on Sunday night.

A terminally ill man was beaten and robbed by two thugs in a ‘vicious and cowardly attack’ as he walked home from a night out in Denton.

An off-duty student nurse performed an ‘incredible act of courage’ by saving the life of a motorist after their car smashed into the side of a pub.

A masked gang brandishing machetes and bats repeatedly stabbed a young man in a Radcliffe pub in a ‘targeted’ 30-second attack.

With World Cup fever gripping the nation, Greater Manchester Police are bracing themselves for the ‘inevitable’ number of alcohol-related city centre incidents the tournament will cause.

Brits are frequently exposed to adverts that promote boozy lifestyles despite advertising guidelines, claims a new study by the University of Manchester.

Two Castleton, Rochdale, pirate tobacco barons are behind bars over a plot to smuggle £3.2million worth of bootlegged cigarettes into Britain – hidden inside crates of fruit.

Matthew Broughton, 29, stepped in to intervene when he spotted the victim being pinned down on a pavement by another woman, before subjecting her to a savage attack for rejecting his advances

The incident occurred at the Prince of Orange pub, Warrington Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, at around 10.15pm on Sunday March 2