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A Stockport businesswoman was mowed down and killed in a road smash in Dubai by a woman who mistook the accelerator for the foot brake as she was parking her car.

A ‘dishonest’ head teacher was last week banned indefinitely from teaching after she deliberately withheld a previous dismissal for allegedly bullying staff and abusing a child in a Manchester school.

The Sun’s decision to whip its topless models off Page 3 is a positive sign of progress but a small step in the fight against sexism, according to a Manchester campaigner.

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.