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The lives of the Charlie Hebdo shooting victims would have been saved by police competency, according to a French lecturer at the University of Manchester.

Kieran Turner-Dave, the Green party’s Manchester Central candidate, has backed the Prime Minister David Cameron’s ultimatum to Ofcom that he will not take part in TV debates unless the Greens are included.

Patients are being moved out of a Rochdale care home, after a damning report published on Friday revealed a series of continuing failures that have put residents at risk.

More foster carers are needed in Manchester, according to an independent fostering agency who are launching a campaign to reduce the number of children in care this month.

Commuters across Bolton using both Northern Rail and First TransPennine Express faced severe overcrowding throughout the festive period – resulting in many people being left on station platforms.

Marc Jepson, 40, paid with his life when he became locked in a bitter family fall out with Irene Hodgkiss, 63, after he split up with wife Sandra.

The ‘terrifying’ moment a machete and hammer-wielding gang of four men, who ‘steaked out’ an Urmston McDonald’s and stole more than £1,000, is caught in CCTV footgaed released by GMP.

Police made the discovery, which included five or six strains of cannabis, when they attended Myles Cohen’s house in Broadway Mews, Hale, last July, after his businessman father made allegations of assault.

The terror attack on Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris was marked in Piccadilly Gardens last night as mourners gathered for a candlelit vigil.

Tameside MP Andrew Gwynne has condemned the government’s response to the A&E crisis that has left units across the country ‘at the point of collapse’.

The initial proposals for saving £59million warned school crossings, free swimming and community projects could take a huge hit, but these have now been softened with news of the windfall.