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A drug dealer who used his elderly mum’s car to deal cocaine around Manchester has been jailed after the substance was found stuffed in his underwear.

Two manufacturing firms have been ordered to pay nearly £50,000 in costs and fines after a Tameside factory worker was forced to have part of his left leg amputated.

The owners of Manchester 235 are bringing a touch of Las Vegas glamour to the Great Northern Shopping and Entertainment Complex.

Ten men have been charged as part of an ongoing investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rochdale.

A Stockport lorry driver who left a good Samaritan in a critical condition after snatching his van and dragging him down the M602 has been charged by police.

Rifkind vacated the Kensington seat in west London last week after a hidden-camera TV documentary filmed the 68-year-old and Labour MP Jack Straw apparently offering their services to a private firm for cash.

A shocked Manchester University audience were told last week that gender inequality ‘is apartheid’, with human rights figurehead Shami Chakrabarti calling it ‘the greatest and most entrenched’ human rights issue facing the world today.

Only 1200 people in Manchester are signed up the blood stem cell donor register. In response to those statistics, Delete Blood Cancer UK have launched a new campaign to increase the numbers of donors.

A new Manchester street food venture left traders with a sour taste in their mouths as miserable weather made the event a wash-out and forced them to take home ‘up to 90%’ of their stock.

Police have released an e-fit of one of two armed burglars who tied up a 13-year-old girl and threatened to cut off her fingers in Oldham.

A burglar escaped with a diamond watch worth £5,500 after fighting with the occupants of a house during an early-morning raid in Middleton.