Over £130,000 worth of children’s toys were stolen from an industrial unit in Gorton.

Just before 11am a suspicious passer-by called 999 after an edgy looking man approached him and reportedly tried to sell him joints of meat, which he presumed were stolen.

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.

Police have released CCTV following a theft at the bureau de change at the Asda store, which happened shortly before 3.45pm on July 29.

Children’s toys, intended for kids this Christmas, have been stolen from a Rochdale church along with cash from a charity box and other items.

A teenage girl is distraught after she was robbed of her change in a ticket dispensing scam at the Market Street Metrolink stop in Manchester city centre – police are warning travellers to be vigilant.

Shopkeepers are urged to be on their guard against a distraction scam after a trio made a ‘brazen’ attempt to nick a tablet computer at a store in Leigh.

Thieves threw a wheelie bin through the shop window of Timperley Aquatics, and then a fish tank through the glass of the bird’s enclosure, before wrestling ‘Baby’ away – as evidenced by the bird’s tail feathers which were torn out in the struggle.

The safety of Manchester’s elderly is in question after a violent thief stole £260 from a 93-year-old woman, by forcing his way into her home.

The Rochdale Canal undercroft is a hotbed of crime and anti-social behaviour and the location of nine deaths in just six years right in the heart of Manchester city centre and the city council want to close it off completely to the public overnight.

Terrifying CCTV footage has been released of a brutal attack on a Salford shopkeeper from two masked thugs brandishing a machete.