Burglary and robbery rates plummet in Bolton – but police warn residents to avoid being victims over Christmas
From 2009 there has been a decrease of 580 incidents
Too good to be true? We don’t care! One in twenty Mancunians happy to purchase stolen goods
Greater Manchester Police quizzed 2000 in ‘morality survey’
Wigan widower’s photo of deceased wife and letter he penned before she died stolen by masked robber
Intruder broke into the home on Stopforth Street
Befriended, chatted up… then mugged: Wigan partygoer thinks she’s made a friend but is instead robbed
They began chatting while walking along Frog Lane
Legal worker jailed after illegally texting prisoner on banned phone later used in Salford prison van heist
Sarah McCabe text Ryan McDonald
Masked machete robber tells Flixton store worker ‘I’m not going to hurt you’ while filling dustbins with cigarettes
The men walked into Martin McColl’s on Flixton Road
Sick supermarket sweep: Machete robber jailed after forcing Manchester store staff to fill baskets with loot
Mark Peter Simms and Daniel Hamilton were both jailed
Worst robber ever? Manchester’s ‘Cinderella thief’ trips over own bike and loses shoe in ‘idiotic’ bungled raid
Knife-wielding hoodie targeted Heywood store Amin News in Market Street
Repeat of a nightmare: Students facing misery of burglary in Manchester again and again… and again
Burglary misery for Fallowfield, Withington and Didsbury
Oldham school children targeted by knife-wielding masked attacker in spate of SIX phone muggings
Six students at Blue Coats School have been approached by the robber
Oldham taxi driver stabbed as ‘violent’ robbers demand cash and mobile phone but only flee with car keys
The driver was on Park Lane at around 9.20pm