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A Christian family doctor performs an exorcism on a seriously ill patient after promising he can ‘heal’ her without medication, a Manchester medical tribunal hears.

Dramatic CCTV footage of men armed with a long-handled sledgehammer robbing a jewellers in Manchester city centre has been released.

Stars have paid tribute to actress Coronation Street actress Anne Kirkbride who died in a Manchester hospital yesterday.

A Harley Street plastic surgeon is condemned for his ‘flippant, cavalier and deplorable’ attitude by a Manchester medical panel yesterday as he is suspended for giving tips to nurses on how to illegally administer Botox to patients.

Hundreds of spurned Prestwich residents are rallying behind a petition to scrap this year’s Parklife festival in Heaton Park following the rampant anti-social behaviour, violence and drug taking that marked last summer.

A campaign is underway to see a statue of Winston Churchill erected in Oldham by Councillor Howard Sykes who hopes the statue will celebrate his ‘very real connection’ with the town.

A warning has been sent out by Greater Manchester Police about the dangers of drug taking, after an Oldham teenager collapsed from taking contaminated MDMA.

Karen Danczuk is to step down as councillor at the next election. The mum of two and husband to Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk has been councillor of the Kingsway ward since winning a majority of 1,458 in 2011.

Former Stockport boy Scout members are being urged to come forward by detectives who are investigating a report of historic child sexual abuse cases that occurred in the mid to late 1990s.

TV weatherman Fred Talbot arrived at a Manchester court this morning to face trial for alleged historic sex offences at an Altrincham school.

Children hoping to find new families across Greater Manchester are facing a 20% longer wait to be adopted than three years ago, according to latest government figures.