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A 13-year-old football and fundraising fanatic is due to arrive in Manchester on Friday February 20 on the North West leg of a mammoth 800-mile charity challenge.

A man who broke into the Salford home of a wheelchair-bound pensioner and stole her handbag in front of her face is being hunted by police.

Sordid diary extracts revealing Fred Talbot’s ‘obsession’ with teenage boys have been released by police – after they were used to convict him at a Manchester court today.

The 65-year-old, who worked as a biology teacher at Altrincham Grammar school, was cleared of eight other indecent assault charges at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court earlier today.

Police and Crime Commissioner, Tony Lloyd revealed that millions have been taken from Greater Manchester to fund government ‘pet projects’.

Mohammed Sarang, from Pembroke Road, Wembley, used Facebook to befriend several young girls from the Wigan area, telling them he could find them modelling jobs.

Margaret O’Brien admitted to becoming ‘friends’ with Patient A while working as a staff nurse in the male section of Moorside Unit, a psychiatric ward at Trafford General Hospital.

The hunt is on for two men following an attempted kidnapping in the Strangeways area of Manchester earlier this week.

After being closed for over a year for a £15million revamp, the Whitworth Art gallery will hold a weekend’s worth of events to celebrate its reopening on Saturday February 14.

Manchester has been named the world’s 14th most sustainable city and community groups are the driving force behind it, according to an environmental campaigner.

‘Consensual sex’ forms for people to sign on drunken nights out to show they agreed to intercourse have ‘deeply worrying’ implications to the way rape cases are investigated, according to a Manchester solicitor.