The number of UK learner drivers choosing automatic cars has rocketed by 123% in a year – as drivers look

Police are continuing their hunt for car vandals who slashed the tyres of more than 150 cars in Middleton on Monday morning.

MM’s legal partners Olliers Solicitors answer YOUR questions on dangerous driving.

Life-saving safety precautions will see road crews working through the night on a £208million motorway scheme across Manchester – after shocking stats revealed eight workers died on the job.

James Mason, 42, joined up with pals Mike Livesey, Dave Knowles and Gareth Nield to take on the James Bond-themed Crumball Rally across France, Switzerland and Italy with scenery straight from one of the films starring the secret agent

An armed mob inflicted a ‘campaign of terror’ on Ancoats in the early hours of this morning with an hour-long crime spree that saw one victim robbed at gunpoint.

The dramatic end to a Wythenshawe car thief’s 120mph police chase has ‘left him deflated’ after bringing him to a halt – and capturing it on Twitter.

A woman was dragged 40metres along a road by a moving van after she was subjected to a verbal and physical road rage attack in Harpurhey.

The woman narrowly escaped ‘life-changing injuries’ in the assault on Church Lane at about 10am on Thursday July 3.

Amy Hobson, 22, was in the passenger seat with her partner, Aaron Tulsa Jones, a 19-year-old from Horwich, when the Vauxhall Corsa they were travelling in collided with an Audi RS3 and on East Lancashire Road, Swinton, just before 5.pm last Sunday

Steven James Ward. 25, of South Avenue, Swinton, is charged with two counts of dangerous driving

Carl David Wood, of St James Street, Farnworth, is due to appear in court today charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous.