Two men have been arrested after the police seized drugs and weapons during a drugs raid in Manchester. Manchester police

Two balaclava-clad thieves raided a One Stop shop in Moston yesterday morning, fleeing with cash and cigarettes – police are appealing for witnesses to the crime.

A series of major Oldham drug raids have seen 13 people, including three teenagers, charged with supply or conspiring to supply heroin and crack cocaine by Greater Manchester Police.

A stash of heroin and crack cocaine – worth up to £7,000 – and a significant amount of cash has been uncovered in an early morning raid in Oldham.

A machete-wielding thug left a teen shopworker shaken after a ‘terrifying’ robbery in Pemberton last night.

Burglars took off with tens of thousands of pounds worth of valuables including a unique vehicle during a Stockport home raid.

The incident, which took place at about 11:40pm on Thursday March 12, saw two thugs jump over the counter in McDonald’s on Bury New Road in Higher Broughton.

This CCTV footage shows the terrifying moment Middleton shoppers faced a masked gang brandishing a meat cleaver, sledgehammer, axe and even a samurai sword in a raid on a security van.

Dramatic CCTV footage of men armed with a long-handled sledgehammer robbing a jewellers in Manchester city centre has been released.

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.

A suspected Stockport brothel in the centre of a residential area was raided by police yesterday, leading to the arrest of a 48-year-old man.