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The Labour Party made mistakes with their immigration policy during their stay in power, according to Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper during a talk in Wigan.

A 66-year-old woman is lucky to be alive after a chip pan caught fire in her Oldham home that didn’t contain any smoke alarms.

Greater Manchester Police internal misconduct rose by 24.3% in the last year according to statistics released by the office for the Police Crime Commissioner.

Manchester comedy veteran Smug Roberts is getting into ‘Rocky training mode’ ahead of a mammoth 24-hour gig marathon across the North West for Comic Relief tomorrow.

Jihadi John, believed to be from west London but originally born in Kuwait, has been named as 27-year-old Mohammed Emwazi

A gas leak caused when a car ploughed into a restaurant and hit a gas main brought Hale Village to a standstill and saw the surrounding area evacuated yesterday.

The number of teenagers falling pregnant in Wigan has fallen to its lowest rate for the fourth year running.

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’.