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A national report by the Centre of Economic and Business Research (CERB) has revealed that the cost of raising a child to the age of 21 was up by £5,000 last year.

Tony Lloyd, Greater Manchester’s Police and Crime Commissioner, hit out at the government’s failure to implement promised changes in the wake of the Shipman murders during their ‘botched’ reorganisation of the NHS.

Leon Brittan’s response to the child sex abuse inquiry while he was alive was ‘wholly inadequate’, according to Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk.

The victim, who is four months pregnant, had just left a newsagents on Hodge Street and was getting into her car when she was grabbed from behind and threw to the floor at about 12.40pm on Jarnuary 17.

A 6000-strong petition campaigning for the right to choose whether Islam can continue in the UK should be removed immediately, according to a Bolton MP.

MM are appealing for the return of a six-year-old’s drawing of her dead brother – lost when her uncle’s wallet was snatched on a night out in Manchester.

A Manchester uncle has put out a heartfelt plea for the return of a ‘priceless’ picture drawn by his niece which was in his wallet when it was stolen on Tuesday night.

Mr Leech has previously expressed criticism of cigarette packaging legislation, slamming Labour and the Tories for being influenced by big businesses and trade unions.

Recorded crime has risen by 6% in Greater Manchester over the past year, with the upward trend likely to remain due to Government cuts, according to a GMP spokesman.

Withington’s very own hedgehog heroin is set to be honoured with a British Empire Medal from the Queen.

The 14-year-old was walking in the Park Bridge area, when he was grabbed from behind and restrained, with his arm being his back, and sexually assaulted.