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A homeless man who had precious family photographs stolen as he slept in a city centre doorway has been reunited with them thanks to a young Manchester street artist.

A good samaritan prevented a bike-riding thief from escaping with a mobile phone after it was snatched out of a woman’s hand in Manchester city centre.

The offensive stickers which read ‘Beware hala is barbaric and funds terrorism’ were placed on food products and equipment at a Regent Road store in Ordall on February 18.

Martin Emery, from South Wales, was told it wouldn’t be possible for him to sit with his elder disabled son Jordan and two younger sons Ethan and Zac, due to there being only one seat available for wheelchair carers and it being against stadium ‘safety protocol’.

Companies should be required to publish annual data about how many disabled people they employ, according to a Manchester MP.

The 37-year-old pedestrian was crossing Parrs Wood Road at its junction with Wilmslow Road when he was hit by a silver Peugeot 307 at around 10.30pm on Thursday January 29.

Police have arrested three men in connection with the fatal drive-by shooting of Kieran McGrath in Ashton four months ago.

Campaigners have welcomed plans for control of the £6billion NHS budget in Greater Manchester to be handed over to city council and health leaders.

Mrs Urquhart, whose online petition gathered over 10,000 signatures, said she was ‘delighted’ with the outcome and that ‘common sense had prevailed’.

A Wigan bodybuilder exposed as a key player in the sick world of illegal dog fighting who used steroid-fed pitbulls to fight to the death was jailed yesterday.

The two offenders, both wearing balaclavas, raided the 48-year-old victim’s house on Marlborough Avenue, Wigan, at around 7.40pm on Monday.